Dancing around the Dahmer files

Nathan Schilz is walking a fine line by putting Jeffrey Dahmer at the center of a musical.

Report shines light on ‘economic realities’ for new lawyers

As it turns out, new attorneys are having a hard time finding work in Wisconsin. And when they do, it’s not always what they expect.

Former Justice Diaz to speak on high court elections

So you think Wisconsin is the only state whose Supreme Court elections are seeing an influx of special interest money?

50 shades of Craig

It didn’t exactly start like most 7th Circuit Court of Appeals opinions do. This one was written a little more, well, provocatively …

Don’t rub it in

I went to the Milwaukee City Attorney’s Office ready for a fight. Fresh from writing stories about pro se litigation, I thought I could handle my run-in with a parking ticket.

Don’t be so judgmental

I don’t know why Court of Appeals decisions that describe journalistic tactics taken by TV stations amuse me. But they do, and I found another one.

Food for thought: What happens when attorneys, witnesses, jurors co-mingle

I guess I thought it would be a bigger deal if attorneys, witnesses and jurors in the same case went to eat in the same place. But I was wrong.

Eviction case should be evicted

Sometimes, it’s pretty easy to sense frustration in an appeal.

Access to Justice Commission’s report reads like a mission statement

The Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission’s new report says many interesting things about the state’s civil legal system.

When pro se goes bad, Part II

Remember that defendant I wrote about on Wednesday who was representing himself in his incest trial? Well, on Thursday he threatened to call the FBI on Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Borowski.

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