In an attempt to make the Wisconsin Supreme Court more nonpartisan, the Wisconsin State Bar is in the early stages of a potential push to limit state justices to single, 16-year terms.
The State Bar of Wisconsin has a new president.
A Green Bay lawyer has been named president-elect of the State Bar of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin lawyers spend 37 percent of their time on work that goes unbilled, according to a national survey.
Dolores Bomrad admits she fell into family law.
Chuck Hanson, after nearly 40 years as an attorney, says he measures himself not by his legal accomplishments but by his work outside the office.
A couple of Wisconsin personal injury lawyers had the chutzpah to use the last names of rival attorneys for keyword advertising on the Internet.
Students from a dozen Wisconsin high schools are set to converge on the Dane County courthouse next week for the State Bar’s annual mock trial competition semifinals.
Bob Gagan’s path to Calewarts, Duffy & Gagan in Green Bay was not typical.
The two candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court plan to debate March 22.
The State Bar of Wisconsin held its Breakfast & Business: Eggs, Ethics & Answers on Jan. 16 in Janesville.
From where she started – moving more often than not around the inner city of Milwaukee, even spending time in a shelter – Anique Ruiz never expected to end up an e-discovery attorney and law student mentor.
Christopher Rogers wasn’t going to get into the family business.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court entered a default judgment Tuesday against attorney Evan Read, the latest sanction against the Milwaukee lawyer since his license was temporarily suspended in 2010.
As a new attorney, Jim Friedman heard colleagues’ stories about Charles L. Goldberg, a Marquette University Law School alumnus who went on to head the State Bar of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Bar and Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.
Quarles & Brady LLP announced Andrew Beilfuss, Thomas Krumenacher and Kerry Moskol were elected to partnership and Matthew Vanderpool joined the firm’s Milwaukee office as an associate.
There’s a potential ethical threat lurking in electronic documents.
Iowa County Circuit Judge William Dyke is 82, but has no plans to step down from the bench and said he is disappointed when he sees aging colleagues do so.
Illinois attorney Tommy Payne received a six-month disciplinary suspension Tuesday from the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The State Bar of Wisconsin on Friday gave Rep. Mary Williams, R-Medford, its Scales of Justice award for helping block Assembly Bill 54 last session.
Ask Michael Crooks what he would have done if he had not been a lawyer and you may find him at a loss for words.
Robert Kovach, chief of staff for state Sen. Frank Lasee, falls silent to consider the consequences of confusing wording in a major new landlord-tenant law.
The State Bar’s Board of Governors opted Wednesday to delay a dues increase vote another year as they approved a 2013 budget that relies on reserve money instead of additional member contributions to close a budget gap.
Attorney Kevin Klein of Phillips will be sworn in as the State Bar of Wisconsin’s new president during the organization’s annual meeting Wednesday at the Chula Vista Resort in the Wisconsin Dells.
An ad hoc committee of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Appellate Practice Section has developed a checklist to assist lawyers and litigants in writing and filing briefs with the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
John Daniels Jr., chairman of Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, received the Friend of the University Award from the Marquette University Alumni Association. The award recognizes distinguished leadership and/or service to Marquette University by a nonalumnus/alumna. Daniels was selected due to his work as a supporter of Marquette’s Urban Scholars Program, which provides 10 full-tuition [...]
Campaign contributions, arrest records and recall petition signatures are all available for public view in Wisconsin, but the state’s Board of Bars Examiners is not subject to the same visibility when it comes to supplying information on bar exam applicants.
The State Bar will have to do some rewriting in order to get Wisconsin Supreme Court approval of a proposed bylaw change altering the path for challenges to dues spending.
An attorney convicted of misdemeanor theft in California has lost his Wisconsin law license for 60 days.
Madison attorney Pat Fiedler, of Axley Brynelson LLP, won the race for president-elect of the State Bar of Wisconsin.
