Gov. Scott Walker announced Friday he is seeking applicants to replace outgoing Manitowoc County District Attorney Mark Rohrer.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has voted to accept three new cases, including one that involves a recent candidate for the bench, but will not review a dispute between two Milwaukee personal injury firms.
Laura Lyons, an attorney with Bell, Moore & Richter SC in Madison, understands the importance of good role models.
Lawyering always has meant lifelong learning: keeping up with case law, regulations and statutes, as well as new developments in legal technology and continuing legal education.
The Republicans who dominate the state’s Joint Finance Committee plan to keep Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to collect DNA samples from people who have been arrested on suspicion of felonies. But they could drop the plan to take them from those arrested for certain misdemeanors, the co-chairman of the committee said Thursday.
Milwaukee County supervisors could spend as much as $25,000 on an outside attorney to either clarify two state reform bills or try to kill them.
Jurors will come from Portage County for the trial of an Argyle man charged with helping his brother kill three of his young children in a house fire.
Dane County will receive a $24,000 grant from the American Bar Association to help the county reduce racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
Eau Claire County has a new jail, but Judge William Gabler is more excited about how he and court staff members are keeping people out of it.
The Legislature’s finance committee has approved language in Gov. Scott Walker’s executive budget that would allow the state Justice Department to move the Milwaukee crime lab out of the city.
Lawmakers plan to use counties as testing grounds before implementing statewide Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to use GPS devices to track people who have been put under a restraining order.
The state’s Joint Finance Committee voted unanimously to eliminate Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to hire a solicitor general and three deputy solicitor generals to help the Department of Justice handle appeals and similar matters.
Wisconsin borrowers received awards totaling $23.5 million in the first three months of 2013 through the National Mortgage Settlement.
A Wisconsin man who has spent two decades in prison for rape has had his conviction overturned.
A couple who believe in faith healing and who were on probation in their son’s pneumonia death will likely face new criminal charges over the death of a second child, the mother’s lawyer said.
Wage-and-hour lawsuits filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act have hit an all-time high, according to a new study of federal court caseloads.
A dispute concerning insurance coverage was resolved by jury trial in Milwaukee’s U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
A man is facing his 8th drunken driving charge in Wisconsin.
In a case that could have repercussions from a small upstate New York town to the legislative floor of Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether prayers at open public meetings violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
Six hard-fought inches of extra lake water during the hot summer months have embroiled property owners and businesses around southern Wisconsin’s Lake Koshkonong in a nine-year court battle with the state Department of Natural Resources.
Music group Van Halen was not being prima donnas when members requested all brown M&Ms be removed from bowls in their dressing rooms; they were just being cautious.
Wisconsin’s up-and-coming assistant attorneys general, public defenders and district attorneys won’t be able to make more than $57,688 a year under a new pay-progression plan adopted Tuesday by the state’s Joint Finance Commission.
The city of Milwaukee reached a settlement Monday in a federal lawsuit concerning its minority contracting practices.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Michigan murder defendant’s due process rights were not violated when a change in state law following his 1994 conviction prevented him from reasserting a diminished-capacity defense when he later won a new trial.
A vaccine injury victim whose claim is time-barred under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act can still recover attorney fees because the claim was reasonable and made in good faith, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.
Kenosha attorney Walter W. Stern III, who was this year sentenced to 357 days in prison for money laundering, has been suspended from practicing law in Wisconsin for two years.
The Kohler Co. has been ordered in federal court to pay $9.6 million to a Massachusetts manufacturer for infringing on two of its patents for components that reduce exhaust emissions in marine generators.
The licensing trial of a Wisconsin dairy farmer who supporters say is being targeted for selling raw milk opened Monday with prosecutors maintaining that raw milk is not at issue.
Brenda O’Malley figured she’d get the police accident report and file an insurance claim after her teenage daughter got into a car accident in Sheboygan Falls this past spring.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has voted to accept three new cases and reject 22 others.
