Deja Vishny wins Criminal Defense Bar Champion of Justice Award
Deja Vishny has been awarded the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Champion of Justice Award during NACDL’s Midwinter Meeting in New Orleans.
ON THE DEFENSIVE: Walker’s ‘conflict offices’ solution misses mark
Gov. Scott Walker’s recently unveiled biennial budget proposal outlines a measure to create “conflict offices” that would result in the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Office retaining more criminal cases.
ON THE DEFENSIVE: Criminal law takes a toll
A prominent New Jersey criminal defense attorney, William Buckman, committed suicide in a hotel room Oct. 14.
Who’s Doing What: New hires at several firms
Deja Vishny was installed to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Lighter sentences sought for some business crimes
The federal panel that sets sentencing policy eased penalties this year for potentially tens of thousands of nonviolent drug offenders. Now, defense lawyers and prisoner advocates are pushing for similar treatment for a different category of defendants: swindlers, embezzlers, insider traders and other white-collar criminals.
ON THE DEFENSIVE: Nation’s opiate epidemic sparks new response
In the 1980s, America faced a crack cocaine epidemic.
LEGAL CENTS: How to handle cash-only clients
Cash is king in most arenas, except the law office.
ON THE DEFENSIVE: The perils of parallel construction
In criminal prosecutions, defendants often feel as if they are fighting an impossible battle.
ON THE DEFENSIVE: Real lawyers doing real work
Most lawyers in criminal practice have heard a defendant utter the expression “real lawyer.”
ON THE DEFENSIVE: Searching for justice in the justice system
More than half of all black men in Milwaukee County have spent time in prison, according to a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee study.
ON THE DEFENSIVE: SPD to pay a price for short-term savings
Attorneys who are appointed to cases by the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Office are paid $40 per hour.
ON THE DEFENSIVE: Mental health reform key to gun control
Sometimes lost in the debate over gun control is the fact that this country needs meaningful change to the way in which mental health treatment is ordered, offered and executed.
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