Clients can deal with legal questions on their schedules, from their homes or businesses. Attorneys save a lot of money in bypassing the bricks-and-mortar office, and they can pass the savings on to clients.
There are several options when conducting legal research.
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Superman in Action Comics #1.
I was surprised the other day when someone told me they were unaware of the services and resources available through the Legislative Reference Bureau.
A new website launched last week that allows researchers to search SEC contract filings.
Is LinkedIn past its prime?
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics issued a new report compiling nearly two decades of data on gun crime, Firearm Violence, 1993-2011.
The Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center maintains a website focused on victim rights and protections.
A new book by a former litigator at Kirkland & Ellis, one of the nation’s largest law firms, has delivered a frisson to the already rattled legal profession.
Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Kopf made national news this week when he wrote on his blog, Hercules and the Umpire, about the frequent irrelevancy of the Supreme Court. “A lot of what the Supreme Court does is simply irrelevant to what federal trial judges do on a daily basis,” wrote Judge Kopf, who presides and blogs from Lincoln, Neb.
The Health Information & the Law website is a project of George Washington University and “is designed to serve as a practical online resource to federal and state laws governing access, use, release, and publication of health information.”
In the wake of (Wednesday’s) decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Missouri v. McNeely, DUI defense attorneys across the land are doing the “happy dance.”
I recently received a request for proposals to provide marketing services to a large regional law firm with a quickly approaching deadline. I declined.
The law ultimately is a people business.
While the “concerted action” theory of liability develops in Wisconsin, case law from a neighboring state and creative arguments can be successfully employed to defend product-liability cases.
Recently, the National Labor Relations Board has taken a stance against employer policies that foreclose any possibility of altering the at-will employment relationship.
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n Wisconsin’s war against drunk driving, Sen. Alberta Darling has been a consistent crusader.
State ethics committees have struggled for decades with applying traditional ethics rules to new forms of electronic communications.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission maintains a database website focusing on consumer product safety information, SaferProducts.gov.
I feel like a new mom.
This column has regularly discussed how law school does little to prepare young lawyers for practice realities in any size law firm. It has become increasingly clear that reality is catching up to law schools.
Many of you saw the headline of this column and thought one of two things: “That is absolutely impossible” or “Yes, I want that.”
What if they held a Wisconsin Supreme Court election and nobody spent staggering sums trying to influence its outcome?
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service “is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.”
For many law firms, technology purchasing is based on reaction rather than planning.
Every defendant convicted of a crime in federal court must confront the federal sentencing guidelines.
Many lawyers and law firms are seeking the benefits of entering into “of-counsel” relationships without paying enough attention to the potential risks.
Google has announced it will retire Google Reader in July.
An Illinois police officer claimed he lost his job because he complained that his department had a bad habit of looking the other way when politically connected drivers were caught committing traffic violations.
The American Bar Association has come out with Electronic Social Media guidelines for judges, and the one thing that is clear is that the rules aren’t really all that clear.
