But the death is…amicable. Altlaw.com announces that they will be shutting down in early 2010.
Filed under: Cool links, Courts, News, Technology, U.S. Law, legal research
November 17, 2009 • 6:43 pm 0
Google Scholar Now Includes Law Journals and Cases
From Google’s Official Blog:
Starting today, we’re enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar. You can find these opinions by searching for cases (like Planned Parenthood v. Casey), or by topics (like desegregation) or other queries that you are interested in. For example, go to Google Scholar, click on the “Legal opinions and journals” radio button, and try the query separate but equal. Your search results will include links to cases familiar to many of us in the U.S. such as Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, which explore the acceptablity of “separate but equal” facilities for citizens at two different points in the history of the U.S. But your results will also include opinions from cases that you might be less familiar with, but which have played an important role.
Filed under: Cool links, Courts, News, Technology, U.S. Law, legal research
November 6, 2009 • 2:57 pm 1
Holy iPhone App, Batman!
Once again, proving the usefulness of Twitter, I find out (via @elizabethf) that Lexis has released a free iPhone/iPodTouch app that allows users to get cases from Lexis and to Shepardize them. You do need to have a current Lexis account. Still, how cool is that?
Filed under: Cool links, Technology, Web 2.0, legal research, social networks, software
September 21, 2009 • 12:45 pm 0
Two social networking sites for law students
Playing whisper down the lane, I’m imitating the Law Librarian Blog in alerting you to 2 social networking sites for law students. Enjoy.
Filed under: Cool links, Web 2.0, social networks
July 15, 2009 • 3:13 pm 0
Cool tool for law students
I wish they had aspenlawstudydesk back when I was in law school. It would have made studying a whole lot easier.
Filed under: Cool links, Law School, Technology, software
June 15, 2009 • 3:33 pm 0
Cool Firefox add-ons
Add-ons are Firefox extensions that one can add to the basic browser to add new features. Bonnie Sucha, a super librarian at the University of Wisconsin Law Library, has put together a list of add-ons useful for legal/library researchers. Go check ‘em out.
Filed under: Cool links, Technology, Web 2.0, legal research, library 2.0, software
May 5, 2009 • 6:56 pm 0
Source for free and low cost legal research
Pace University School of Law has compiled a guide to free and low cost resources for legal research. Looks great!
Filed under: Cool links, U.S. Law, legal research, research guides
April 1, 2009 • 5:18 pm 0
Nifty blawg resource
The Law Library of Congress has cataloged and archived a bunch of law related blogs (blawgs) on a variety of subjects. [Hat tip, Jahnna Harvey]
Filed under: Cool links, Web 2.0, blog, library 2.0
March 20, 2009 • 1:10 pm 0
The Daily Record has a blog
The Daily Record’s blog, On the Record, is actually 2 blogs in one – one for business and one for law. This mirrors the focus of the Daily Record itself. Best of all, you can go to On the Record for both parts. They also have RSS feeds for each blog, as well as for videos they produce.
Filed under: Cool links, Web 2.0, blog
March 19, 2009 • 12:57 pm 0
Prof in the News
Our own Prof. Sloan was highlighted in the Law Librarian Blog today for her article, Step Right Up: Using Consumer Decision Making Theory to Teach Research Process in the Electronic Age.
Filed under: Cool links, Law School, Teaching, Technology, legal research
