Ruder Ware’s Anderson gets a high when the gavel drops
Ruder Ware's Steve Anderson freely admits that being a litigator allows his competitive nature to come out.
Walker appoints former Ruder Ware partner to financial bureau
Gov. Scott Walker has appointed a former partner and shareholder at Ruder Ware to the state's Department of Financial Institutions, which regulates the financial industry.
Win-win: Murphy does his part to help business owners
Running a business is challenging enough, but throw in legal issues and the headaches can mount.
Who’s Doing What: AWL announces Board of Directors; new hires
The Association for Women Lawyers has announced its new Board of Directors.
Workers’ antics keep Ackermann busy
Sara Ackermann drills down what she does every day into three words: sex, drugs and drama.
Who’s Doing What: Reinhart’s Deisinger named State Bar president-elect
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren has announced that Francis Deisinger, the firm's General Counsel and a shareholder in its Litigation Practice, has been elected as the next president-elect of the State Bar of Wisconsin.
Drawing the line on gifts
The Wisconsin Supreme Court sets the rules governing when and how judges can accept gifts.
State’s high court rules in favor of legal malpractice insurer
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reversed a Court of Appeals case that lets legal malpractice insurance providers in the state go on with business as usual and keep premiums for legal malpractice insurance the same.
Who’s Doing What: Allen named partner at Stafford Rosenbaum; attorneys named as shareholders
Madison-based Stafford Rosenbaum LLP has named Susan Allen as a partner.
More attorneys turning to colleagues for representation
Milwaukee attorney Jeffrey Jensen has more than 25 years of experience in criminal defense, but he would put his fate in another lawyer’s hands rather than defend himself.
Who’s Doing What: Law librarians group hands out service award
Mark Kmiecik joined Davis & Kuelthau SC’s trusts, estates and succession planning team, as well as its tax team in metro-Milwaukee. Kmiecik earned his master's of law degree in taxation from Northwestern University School of Law and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
Justices deem attorney’s rule violation too minimal for discipline
A Monroe attorney who did not cooperate with an attorney discipline investigation violated the rules, but the violation was so minimal that it doesn’t require discipline, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
Legal News
- Wisconsin joins Feds, dozens of states to hold airlines accountable for bad behavior
- Trump ahead of Biden in new Marquette poll
- Bankruptcy court approves Milwaukee Marriott Downtown ‘business as usual’ motion
- New Crime Gun Intelligence Center to launch in Chicago
- Arrest warrant issued for Minocqua Brewing owner who filed Lawsuit against Town of Minocqua
- Wisconsin Supreme Court justices question how much power Legislature should have
- Reinhart named the 2024 Wisconsin law firm of the year by benchmark litigation
- Milwaukee’s Common Council now has the most African Americans, women and openly LGBTQ members ever
- Office of School Safety Provides Behavioral and Threat Assessment Management Training Ahead of 25th Anniversary of Columbine Shooting
- Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear arguments in Democratic governor’s suit against GOP-led Legislature
- Lawsuit asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to strike down governor’s 400-year veto
- Wisconsin man pleads not guilty to neglect in disappearance of boy
WLJ People
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Russell Nicolet
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Benjamin Nicolet
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Dustin T. Woehl
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Katherine Metzger
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Joseph Ryan
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – James M. Ryan
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Dana Wachs
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Mark L. Thomsen
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Matthew Lein
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Jeffrey A. Pitman
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – William Pemberton
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Howard S. Sicula