Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Earlier this week the State Bar of Wisconsin launched its new Books UnBound product – a subscription-based online library of State Bar of Wisconsin CLE Books (the “brown binders”). According to the State Bar, Books UnBound is not intended to replace the print books, but rather to provide greater flexibility for members to conduct legal …
Stop by the UW Law Library this week and help us celebrate National Library Week! For our celebration this year, we have put together a number of activities including drawings and giveaways, and, of course, our faculty READ poster. This year’s poster features Carin Clauss and will be on display later this week in the …
Archived news articles from the Milwaukee Journal and Journal/Sentinel are now available in Google News from the 1890s to the present. Unfortunately, there is no way to print the pages, but you can direct link to an article. To access the archives, go to the advanced search page and enter Milwaukee Journal in the Source …
On Friday, October 8th, 2010 the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin will host an all-day educational institute for librarians at the new Marquette University Law School building, Eckstein Hall, in Milwaukee, WI. The theme for the conference is The Strength of Change. Registration will cost $100, and includes continental breakfast and lunch. The dual-track event …
From WKOW TV news: State attorneys have settled a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s policy of allowing in-state law students to practice without passing the bar exam. The state has agreed to pay Corrine Wiesmueller $7,500 to drop the lawsuit. Wiesmueller and her husband, Christopher, alleged Wisconsin’s so-called diploma privilege violates the federal Commerce Clause by giving …
Yesterday the US Supreme Court launched a new website – complete with a new look and new URL. The Court will now be hosting the site in-house at www.supremecourt.gov. Previously, it had been hosted by the Government Printing Office (GPO) at www.supremecourtus.gov. The GPO URL will redirect users to the new site through July 1, …
Bubbl.us is a simple, free web application that lets you create mind maps for organizing and brainstorming ideas. Mind maps are great for visually laying out ideas and seeing the connections between them. Here is an extremely simple map that I did. As you can see, you can also get much more complex. Bubbl.us is …
The Judicial Conference of the United States has approved some changes to the PACER system to “improve public access to federal courts by increasing the availability of court opinions and expanding the services and reducing the costs for many users.” One change is regarding fees. Users will now not be billed “unless they accrue charges …
From Et Seq, The Harvard Law School Library Blog: Can’t get enough of Congress? Is Book TV your idea of Must-see TV? If so, you’ll be excited to learn that “virtually every minute” of C-SPAN’s archives for the last 23 years are now available at C-SpanVideo.org. The total? 160,000 hours.
PACER’s U.S. Party/Case Index has been replaced by a new search tool called PACER Case Locator. It appears that the underlying data is the same – Case Locator just offers improved search and display capabilities including the ability to: request lists of cases for a specified date range by court type; conduct searches based on …