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The Indigo Book – a Free Legal Citation Guide Based on the Bluebook
A free alternative to The Bluebook legal citation guide is now available. The Indigo Book, formerly called “Baby Blue,” is available online without charge in PDF or HTML. To make legal citation more...
View ArticleThe University of Wisconsin Law School announces the Bhopal Digital Repository
Last week, the UW Law School hosted a symposium on the Bhopal Disaster, which killed thousands of people in the Bhopal region of India, left a long legal trail, and is still controversial to this day....
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Khan Academy Announces Free LSAT Test Prep
This post was authored by Eric Taylor, Evening Reference Librarian at the UW Law Library. Coming in 2018, all those aspiring to go to law school will be able to access online LSAT test prep for free!...
View ArticleArrest Data Analysis Tool Available from Bureau of Justice Statistics
Established in 1949, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the United States’ primary source for criminal justice statistics. BJS publishes many reports such as the seminal Crime in the United...
View ArticleAccess LLMC Digital Remotely With Your Wisconsin State Law Library Card
LLMC Digital is a searchable archive of historical primary legal sources for Wisconsin, the United States, and other jurisdictions. Wisconsin materials included in LLMC’s collections include historical...
View ArticleIt's Not Science Fiction, It's a New Way to Search
Here in law library-land, we’re all familiar with the concept of “citation chasing”- i.e., finding one good on-point article and then mining its citations, footnotes, and citing sources for other...
View ArticleCourtListener Now Offering PACER Docket Alerts
By Eric Taylor, Reference Librarian The Free Law Project recently announced the availability of PACER Docket Alerts on CourtListener.com. CourtListener is a free public access website tracking federal...
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New Google Apps Help with Accessibility
Photo via Unsplash. Google is working to make communicating easier for those with hearing difficulties, recently releasing two new apps, Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier. Live Transcribe works as a...
View ArticleKeep a PDF Copy of that E-Signed Document
Pro tip from LifeHacker – When You Electronically Sign Documents, Always Keep a Copy. Don’t – Assume that you’ll have perpetual access to the e-signed copy as happened to the freelancer described in...
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How to Search Across Multiple PDF Files
Last week, someone asked me if it was possible to search the full text of multiple PDF files in the same folder at one time. Hmm – good question. No surprise, our Assistant Director for Public...
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WisconsinEye Adds Online Transcription Tool – Cool but Not “Official...
I noticed today in WisconsinEye’s Morning Minute email that they have introduced a transcription tool for their archived programming. According to WisconsinEye, “the online transcription tool allows...
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Attorney Ethical Obligations re Cloud Computing, Computer Security, & Strong...
With all of the sensitive and confidential information entrusted to attorneys, data security is an essential part of doing business. In Wisconsin, attorneys have an ethical obligation to understand...
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Internet Archive Scholar, a New Search Index for Scholarly Works (Research &...
Looking for a research or white paper, conference proceeding, pre-print, or report but can’t find a copy in your library’s catalog or popular search engines? Check out the new Internet Archive Scholar...
View ArticleGetting Hacked Could Lead to Ethics Violations – Use LastPass to Secure...
“Lawyers whose attorney trust accounts are cleaned out by cybercriminals should be prepared to answer to attorney-disciplinary authorities. And such a theft could result in disciplinary action for a...
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Legal Tune Up- Free Help for Wisconsinites with Common Legal Needs
Lift Wisconsin (Legal Intervention for Transforming Wisconsin) just announced the launching of a new tool to help Wisconsinites with common legal needs. The tool is called Legal Tune Up and it is “a...
View ArticleFree Basic Photoshop Coming Soon
According to The Verge, a free basic version of Photoshop (image editing tool) is coming soon: Adobe has started testing a free-to-use version of Photoshop on the web and plans to open the service up...
View ArticleNew, Easier Way to Make Federal Court Documents Freely Available via RECAP
If you routinely access federal dockets and court documents, you may already know that you can get some documents free from the RECAP Archive, a database of millions of PACER documents and dockets...
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