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Milwaukee litigator Emile Banks is comfortable on either side of the courtroom.

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.

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.

A lawyer can make a tough client.

Elected officials and members of the public met Wednesday to discuss changing Wisconsin laws related to advanced Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

The felony misconduct case against Kelly Rindfleisch advanced Tuesday when a District I Appeals Court denied her motion to dismiss charges.

The state Supreme Court on Thursday took up ground-water seepage, rotting timber pilings and years of court battles over whether a public entity can be held liable for millions of dollars of alleged private property damages.

A Milwaukee man who for months eluded arrest after allegedly filing bogus liens has been apprehended and released on bail, according to a media release Wednesday from Attorney General J.B. Hollen.

Gov. Scott Walker tapped attorney John Yackel to be the new Lincoln County Circuit Court Judge in Branch II, according to an announcement Thursday.

Federal and Wisconsin laws prohibit most unsolicited texts and other promotional messages. But so far, regulators have failed to reverse the boom in text spam, leading frustrated cell phone owners to file a slew of class-action lawsuits.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday revoked the license of David Stokes, a Madison attorney convicted in 2011 of felony theft by fraud.

An Illinois resident who illegally filled wetlands during three separate years in Oneida County has agreed to pay $30,000 plus the cost of environmental restoration, the Wisconsin Department of Justice announced Monday.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler has stepped out of fellow Justice David Prosser’s ethics case. If two more justices do so, the case is unlikely to proceed.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser is almost $230,000 in debt and has switched his campaign account to a legal defense fund, according to a report filed Friday with the Government Accountability Board.

Wisconsin’s judicial community lost one of its lights this week.

Steven Magritz won’t leave Ozaukee County corporation counsel Dennis Kenealy alone.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday retroactively suspended attorney Daynel Hooker’s license for six months, effective March 1, 2011.

Wisconsin police leaders are calling for more extensive background checks on gun buyers.

Democrats officially took control of the state Senate on Tuesday, electing Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, president. Risser, the longest serving state lawmaker in the country, has served 56 years in the Legislature.

After a seven-year hiatus, John Chavez can practice law again in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Justice Michael Gableman won’t have to recuse himself from a case involving attorneys from Michael Best & Friedrich, a law firm that gave him thousands of dollars of legal counsel in a campaign ethics case.

The Department of Justice has settled a lawsuit related to a complaint by the Department of Natural Resources against Wisconsin well driller Todd Huemann and his company, T. Huemann Well & Pump Inc., according to a news release from the DOJ.

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.