Welcome 1Ls

Welcome 1Ls

If you would like to review some resources on how to succeed in law school, see the display outside the Reference Offices.

Zotero

Zotero is a handy tool that helps collect and manage your citations. Moreover, it can export citations in a variety of styles.

Thanks to Bonnie Schucha from WisBlawg.

Legal Analysis Reading for 1Ls

If you have not already registered your Westlaw password and registered for the Legal Analysis class, please do so today. Once you register for the class you will find more information and reading.

Word to the wise-be prepared and do the reading before the first day of class!

Background Checks

Now you can take advantage of the free service, Criminal Searches, to check a person's background. While still in its Beta version, this service offers a preliminary look at someone's record.

Hat tip to Abbie Mulvihill from AbsTracked .

Justia's Regulation Tracker

Now you can add Justia to your list of free resources for finding and tracking regulations. While the content only goes back to 2005, it gives researchers an excellent way of keeping updated on new regulations.

Thanks to the Valpo Law Blawg.

Searching the Deep Web

Information Week reports that Google has started testing ways to index data from the invisible Web, including "Web pages generated dynamically from a database, based on input such as might be provided through a Web submission form." (For more on the invisible Web, see my Wisconsin Lawyer article, Searching Smarter)

Given that the invisible Web, also know as the deep Web or hidden Web, is approximately 400 to 550 times larger than the visible Web, that could amount to a lot more data accessible via Google.

Over at Search Engine Land, Danny Sullivan points out that "Google's not the first to do something like this. Companies like Quigo, BrightPlanet, and WhizBang Labs were doing this type of work years ago. But it never translated over to the major search engines. Now chapter two of surfacing deep web material is opening, this time with a major search player -- in that, Google is being a pioneer."

Hat tip to WisLaw for this post.

OBA Hosts Visiting Chinese Students and Lawyers

The Oklahoma Bar Association hosted a reception and dinner last night for the Chinese students and lawyers participating in OCU Law's Certificate in American Law Program. OBA President (and OCU Law General Counsel and Distinguished Lecturer in Law) Bill Conger presented the group with a proclamation. Distinguished guests from the local bench and bar were on hand for the ceremony. After the ceremony the Chinese guests enjoyed their first tex-mex meal from Ted's.