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Feb. 13, 2006.
Kristy Moon, editor.
Casemaker Is Here!
The Washington State Bar Association recently joined the Casemaker
Consortium. What is Casemaker and what does this mean for you? Casemaker is an
online legal research system that was originally developed by the Ohio State
Bar Association in 1999, and marketed only to bar associations by Lawriter.
Twenty states have joined the Consortium so far, and bar members of those
states have access to it at no cost.
All WSBA members (including inactive members) can now access Casemaker by
going to
https://pro.wsba.org/Casemaker/ and entering a bar membership number and a
password (call 800-945-WSBA, 206-443-WSBA, or email
Casemaker@wsba.org to obtain the
password).
The WSBA is also making this available to UW law faculty and students for
educational purposes only. So stop by the Reference Office to obtain an
ID/Password and give it a try!
The log in page
https://pro.wsba.org/Casemaker/ has links to the latest Casemaker news, a
PowerPoint Tutorial, and FAQs. If you want detailed information on what is
included in Casemaker, click on the link for the User Guide. For a handy 2-page
guide on how to construct your searches, click on the link to the Quick
Reference Guide.
To send comments and feedback to WSBA about Casemaker, use the contact
information above.
For a detailed review of Casemaker, see
http://www.llrx.com/features/casemaker.htm.
Book of the Week: Washington Administrative Law Practice Manual
--Cheryl Nyberg
Washington Administrative Law Practice Manual (Lexis Publishing,
1991-date). KFW440 .W36 1991 at Reference Area.
Law students read and discuss court opinions daily and most become
acquainted with statutes in substantive courses on the environment, labor,
securities, tax, etc. But administrative law is the least understood category
of the American primary law. And state-based administrative law is even less
likely to be covered in the law school curriculum.
So when you enter practice in Washington State and need to know something
about this state’s administrative law system, your new best friend will become
the one-volume Washington Administrative Law Practice Manual. Experts
have written chapters covering the basics from public meetings and records to
the rule-making process, and agency adjudications to their enforcement and
judicial review. In fact, the chapter on “Judicial Review of Administrative
Procedure Act Decisions” was written by our own UW Law
Professor William
Andersen (who served on the WSBA task force that drafted the Washington
Administrative
Procedure Act).
Other chapters address the appearance of fairness doctrine, ethical issues,
administrative investigations, equal access to justice, local administrative
law, judicial review of administrative proceedings not covered under the
Administrative Procedure Act, and the intersection of administrative remedies
and the federal civil rights laws. The final chapter provides an overview of
the Washington State government, with a very useful description of each
administrative agency, its basic functions and responsibilities, statutory
creation, and citations to major laws and regulations.
The book is updated annually and its contents are available on LexisNexis (WASH;WAADPM).
For more information, see the Gallagher Law Library’s
Administrative Law
Research guide and the links to Washington rules, regulations, and
administrative decisions on our
Internet Legal Resources page. | 