POSTED: Friday, May 18th, 2012 at 2:16 pm

BY: DOLAN MEDIA NEWSWIRES

I receive hundreds of calls and emails each year from members of the bar and other professionals who express interest in becoming mediators.

POSTED: Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 1:45 pm

BY: DOLAN MEDIA NEWSWIRES

Internet service providers can no longer avoid liability by turning a blind eye to copyright-infringing content posted to their websites.

POSTED: Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 1:29 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

When the Wisconsin Supreme Court declined in February to grant the Civil Gideon petition and its proposed requirement that legal counsel be appointed for impoverished civil litigants, it instead noted a familiar fallback solution: pro bono initiatives.

POSTED: Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 1:48 pm

BY: Joe Yovino, joe.yovino@wislawjournal.com

A spate of recent news stories suggests trouble for America’s 200-plus accredited law schools as a result of increasing debt among students.

POSTED: Friday, May 11th, 2012 at 12:44 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

In the quest for new work, many attorneys and firms take stock of their relationships, revenue and hours worked to create a list of “best clients.” Next, they identify other clients and prospects with similar needs and issues who would be receptive to a pitch.

POSTED: Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 2:37 pm

BY: BEVERLY BUTULA

Trying to keep track of the various financial regulations? Thanks to Alacra, there is now a simple and visually appealing way to do just that.

POSTED: Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 at 2:33 pm

BY: DOLAN MEDIA NEWSWIRES

The old school model for staffing in a small law firm was often one secretary or legal assistant per lawyer, and that’s still true for many firms.

POSTED: Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 1:58 pm

BY: ED POLL

I recently read a guest article penned by an in-house general counsel, providing law firms with tips on the GC’s perspective. It was a practical and useful review, beginning with the suggestion that outside counsel should “stay in touch.”

POSTED: Monday, May 7th, 2012 at 1:49 pm

BY: GREGG HERMAN

It is bad enough that the Wisconsin Supreme Court is wrong on the public policy regarding the modifiability of child support. Now, thanks to an April decision, the justices not only continue to be wrong about the public policy involved — they also have confused what should be simple law.

POSTED: Friday, May 4th, 2012 at 2:05 pm

BY: David Ziemer, david.ziemer@wislawjournal.com

In John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Satan wakes up next to the burning lake and declares to the rest of the angels thrown into hell, “the mind is its own place, and in itself/ Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n./ What matter where, if I be still the same?”

POSTED: Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 at 2:32 pm

BY: DOLAN MEDIA NEWSWIRES

Every U.S. judge knows what it is like to sentence a defendant to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment that makes no sense.

POSTED: Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 at 12:31 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

I left law school with no particular intention of becoming a law professor; however, when I did become one 10 years later, my views as to the proper purpose and content of legal education had been significantly shaped by my contact with a variety of individuals.

POSTED: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 at 1:03 pm

BY: ED POLL

It has been estimated that 400,000 lawyers will retire by the year 2020.

POSTED: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 at 10:14 am

BY: BEVERLY BUTULA

WisconsinEye announced that it will celebrate its fifth anniversary May 16.

POSTED: Monday, April 30th, 2012 at 2:12 pm

BY: Matthew J. Feery

Over the years, I have noticed that there are two general questions I receive when people find out I practice employment law.

POSTED: Friday, April 27th, 2012 at 10:28 am

BY: GREGG HERMAN

Years ago, the daily mail delivery was a major event in our firm.

POSTED: Thursday, April 26th, 2012 at 9:26 am

BY: Jane Pribek

From haircuts to restaurant reservations, Kellie Mannette prefers to book all her appointments online.

POSTED: Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 at 12:30 pm

BY: David Ziemer, david.ziemer@wislawjournal.com

Many years ago, a former Alabama congressman told me the following story:

POSTED: Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 at 1:58 pm

BY: BEVERLY BUTULA

The Supreme Court of Ohio announced Monday that it will be discontinuing the bound volumes of Appellate Court decisions.

POSTED: Monday, April 23rd, 2012 at 11:12 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

Lawyers are impassioned debaters, but not, apparently, when it comes to their wallets.

POSTED: Friday, April 20th, 2012 at 1:56 pm

BY: DOLAN MEDIA NEWSWIRES

In the pantheon of rules of professional conduct governing lawyers, one in the top tier of importance is the so-called “no-contact” rule.

POSTED: Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 2:36 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

I’d like to follow the previous posts celebrating National Poetry Month with a hastily composed bookspine poem titled “The Happy Lawyer”.

POSTED: Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 at 12:56 pm

BY: ED POLL

The most cost-effective business development strategy for any firm is to expand current services with existing clients. Current clients are already in hand and don’t have to be identified and wooed. They offer great potential for leverage, as new services can be provided without significant startup costs.

POSTED: Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 at 10:45 am

BY: BEVERLY BUTULA

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute are organizations that provide a wide range of information on automobile safety.

POSTED: Monday, April 16th, 2012 at 4:40 pm

BY: Associated Press

We don’t think that Gov. Scott Walker and the Republicans in the Legislature have launched a war on women, as some critics allege. We’d describe it more as a “police action.”

POSTED: Monday, April 16th, 2012 at 2:34 pm

BY: Joe Yovino, joe.yovino@wislawjournal.com

What seems like eons ago, we waited patiently to hear the modem signal, “eeeeee oooooo eeeeee ghghghghgh,” to welcome us to cyberspace. Now Netscape and AOL are long gone and most people are too busy compulsively browsing the Internet on their smart phones to contemplate how profoundly Web access has changed our lives, including how we do business.

POSTED: Friday, April 13th, 2012 at 9:38 am

BY: David Ziemer, david.ziemer@wislawjournal.com

Unless it’s served with lots of beef and slathered with Hunan sauce, I don’t much care for broccoli.

POSTED: Thursday, April 12th, 2012 at 10:26 am

BY: RICHARD GABRIEL

Juries routinely dismiss expert testimony due to credibility problems, incomprehensibility, or simply because it is cancelled out by another expert’s testimony.

POSTED: Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 at 2:23 pm

BY: ED POLL

A coaching client of mine had a major problem because he had a large receivables backlog and was making little effort to manage and collect it. With the pressures of the practice, there simply didn’t seem to be enough time to get receivables current.

POSTED: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 at 1:59 pm

BY: DIANE SLOMOWITZ

I once was charged with opposing a summary judgment motion in a multi-claim, multi-issue case. The movant’s brief, close to 35 pages, was accompanied by a motion to allow the filing of an overly long brief (to which we did not object). I prepared and filed my brief, which fell within the county’s local rules (but not by much).