In a letter (PDF) filed Friday with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Milwaukee attorney Frank Gimbel argued in favor of a public forum for handling the pending ethics case against state Justice David Prosser.
Nathaniel Cade Jr., of Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP, Milwaukee, was named to the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s 2012 Fellows Program. Fellow members include general counsel and managing partners from top law firms and in-house legal departments across the country.
To err is human. But when the nation’s highest court receives erroneous information in a case – and even cites the flawed data in its opinion – what, if anything, should the court do about it?
Louis H. Pollak, a federal judge who helped work on the pivotal school-desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, and later served as dean of two Ivy League law schools, has died. He was 89.
Pharmaceutical companies did not violate federal wage and hour law by classifying their sales representatives as administrative employees ineligible for overtime, the 7th Circuit has ruled.
Douglas County’s district attorney has determined officers involved in the shooting death of a carjacking suspect were justified in using deadly force.
A federal judge has ruled that a final volume of the CIA’s three-decade-old history on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba can remain shrouded in secrecy because it is a draft, not a finished product.
Two men accused of fatally shooting a young La Crosse woman during an attempted robbery will face trial.
A Milwaukee County judiciary board Thursday shot down Sheriff David Clarke’s request to retain outside counsel in matters pertaining to his professional duties.
A Janesville sex offender was properly convicted of killing his neighbor and her two teenage children, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
A Wisconsin appeals court upheld the state’s minimum gas markup law as constitutional on Thursday, determining that it helps achieve the Legislature’s goal of creating fair and robust competition at the pump.
An attorney convicted of misdemeanor theft in California has lost his Wisconsin law license for 60 days.
A federal judge has sentenced a former Beloit official to prison for using city funds to purchase personal items.
A secret Milwaukee County investigation that has already led to criminal charges against five people close to Gov. Scott Walker took a step forward Wednesday when a judge granted immunity to a 12th witness.
A judge overturned a nearly $10,000 small claims judgment against American Honda Motor Co. that was won by a car owner who said the automaker misrepresented that her hybrid Civic could get 50 miles per gallon, according to a ruling released Wednesday.
The recent ruling from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission holding that transgendered workers can bring employment bias claims under Title VII is a “game changer” in employment discrimination law, and could lead to claims under the Act based on sexual orientation.
A Milwaukee attorney wants a court to overturn his removal from the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s list of lawyers who take private bar case appointments.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser has asked another colleague to step out of his discipline case.
The internship represents a peculiar type of quid pro quo in the corporate world: An employer gains help and a worker gains experience, often without any money changing hands. Until recently few gave the ethical or legal aspects of unpaid internships much thought.
One day in August 2010, Hutchinson attorney Neil Jensen called a former law school classmate and intramural sports teammate, Keith Sjodin, with a proposition.
An animal rights advocacy group won a court order at least temporarily postponing euthanasia for a pet dog that it killed a Henderson boy celebrating his first birthday.
In the court of public opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court isn’t faring too well.
Former Sheboygan mayor Bob Ryan has pleaded not guilty to charges he grabbed a woman’s breasts twice during a drinking binge last July in Elkhart Lake.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued updated guidance on employers’ use of criminal background checks in making employment decisions.
As West Michigan solo attorney Philip Ellison prepared for trial, he ran into a not-so-uncommon problem: he couldn’t find his key witness to serve him with a trial subpoena.
A divorced father could claim a dependency exemption on his federal income taxes – even though his child’s mother refused to sign the form ordinarily required by the IRS for such exemptions, the U.S. Tax Court has ruled.
The city of Milwaukee on Friday filed a lawsuit in Milwaukee County Circuit Court against four companies for damages related to terra cotta installed on the exterior of City Hall during the building’s restoration project between 2006 and 2008, according to a city of Milwaukee news release.
When the state cut Nels Naslund and his partners a $1.9 million check for a chunk of prime real estate off Highway 41, he said he never expected to have to share it with a renter.
The Milwaukee Bar Association on Friday held a memorial service at the Milwaukee County Courthouse to remember the more than 50 members of the local legal community who died during the last year.
New rules simplifying and speeding up the process for union organizing elections went into effect April 30.
