Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
“Big firms across the country have dramatically cut the number of associates attending their 2009 summer programs, a sign that firms don’t expect to see a talent shortage in fall 2010,” reports Law.com. Many of California’s biggest firms have cut the number of associates in their programs compared to last year, some by 30 percent …
Civil Justice in Wisconsin: A Fact Book, with Commentary is the title of a new report authored by Marc Galanter and Susan Steingass of the University of Wisconsin Law School. “This report presents the basic facts about our civil courts and litigation in them and examines some of the persistent myths about these topics.” It …
Latest faculty and staff scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN: Northeast Asian Development and the Problem of Rights: Challenges for a New Developmental State by John K.M. Ohnesorge, University of Wisconsin Law School Toward a New Paradigm of Criminal Justice: How the Innocence Movement Merges Crime …
If you follow Althouse, you probably know that the UW Law professor recently became engaged to a man she met through her blog. The New York Times shares the story of their unique courtship.
The New York Times has an interesting editorial on the economic downturn and its implications for the legal profession – and they aren’t all bad, according to the author. The downturn will probably rein in [first year] salaries at the high end. Top firms are already under pressure to lower the $160,000 starting salary; one …
From The Third Branch (newsletter of the federal courts): The Judicial Conference, in its continuing efforts to ensure appropriate public access to court files, has voted to make federal court sealed cases more readily apparent. The Conference, acting at its March 17 meeting, voted to have Internet lists of civil and criminal cases in district …
Jane Pribek of the Wisconsin Law Journal offers some advice for Cost-effective Ways to Meet CLE Requirements. See for example, programs offered by the Wisconsin State Law Library, Marquette University Law School and the American Bar Association. Other CLE providers are mentioned in the article.
Online Best Colleges has compiled a list of the Top 100 Twitter Feeds for Law Students. It is an interesting list of feeds from various legal folks and organizations, including law students, firms, attorneys, academics, law librarians, and more. Whether these are, in truth, the “top” law related Twitter feeds is hard to say, but …
Earlier this week, the Law Library of Congress released an archive of legal blawgs dating back to 2007. The collection includes more than 100 blogs categorized by topic covering a broad cross section of legal topics. According to Infotoday Blog, the library plans to increase that number to 200 by the end of 2009. This …
The latest edition of WisBar InsideTrack is now available. In this April 1st edition, I contributed an article on Managing your research: Create and search your notes with Evernote. Evernote is a free, versatile note-taking tool. It provides a single place to store many types of notes and makes them instantly accessible at anytime, in …