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On Oct. 3, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Gill v. Whitford.

Whether we practice as litigators or transactional attorneys, we have all dealt with convoluted statutes and regulations which, at times, seem deliberately contorted to frustrate the legal practitioner, or perhaps, penned with the intent of making certain that we will always have work. Which of these two the Legislature had in mind when it drafted 2009 Wis. Act 163 is ...

In an effort to improve well-being in the legal profession, the American Bar Association Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs has released a report detailing ways to help lawyers lead healthier, more-fulfilling lives.

Corporate counsel need to keep their eyes open and fixed on the big picture.

Attorneys should expect no relief in the great game of catchup being played with business clients intent on reducing their legal expenses. From every corner of the country, corporations are finding only more innovative ways to rein in spending on outside counsel.

The property is idyllic. It consists of two parcels in a cove on the St. Croix River along the Wisconsin-Minnesota border where the river widens and flattens to form Lake St. Croix.

This practice can be risky because internal IT teams are often unable to monitor personal computers and may not have an opportunity to update them with the latest security software

The clause was ultimately found to violate First Amendment free-speech rights. The decision is already making itself felt.

A Milwaukee judge has raised nearly $271,000 in her bid for the state Supreme Court.

Attorney joins Murphy Desmond Murphy Desmond has hired Connor Valentyn to work in its Madison office. The firm made the announcement July 7. Valentyn’s practice centers on business law and helping start-up companies. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School. During his time as a student, Valentyn was a student attorney at the UW Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic ...

Civility, niceness, and more specifically incivility and meanness, are big news today.

Daily Reporter and Wisconsin Law Journal Editor-in-Chief Joe Yovino has been promoted to associate publisher/editor position of both publications.

President Donald Trump has managed to seat a new justice on the U.S. Supreme Court's bench — Neil Gorsuch, formerly a judge in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In doing so, the president once again drew attention to the doctrine which “conservatives” have historically preached from whatever hilltop perch they could find, using words which former D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Robert Bork laid down in his book, “The Tempting of America.”

In our first installment in the April 12 Wisconsin Law Journal issue, we analyzed the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s seminal decision in Wisconsin Pharmacal Co., LLC v. Nebraska Cultures of California, Inc., 2016 WI 14.

In July, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals issued its panel decision in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana and affirmed a district court’s ruling that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not redress sexual-orientation discrimination in the workplace. 830 F.3d 698.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided in 2016 several fundamental questions concerning liability-insurance coverage.

With almost two months of 2017 behind us, there is no time like the present for lawyers to be working on their business-development plans.

This year marked the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. Among the many provisions of this fundamental document is the right, afforded by the 7th Amendment, to a civil jury trial.

After about three decades of nearly continuous growth, Wisconsin’s prison population has stabilized over the past dozen years at about 22,000 to 23,000 inmates.

Earlier this month the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a lengthy decision in the case of Seifert v. Balink, handing down the court’s first decision on the recently amended Wis. Stat. § 907.02 and, specifically, whether a medical expert’s opinions are reliable under Daubert.

With high financial stakes, demanding clients and looming deadlines, it’s easy to let our control of our words and actions slip under pressure. Nearly every day we read stories about lawyers being uncivil and doing uncivil things — most of the time, in high-pressure situations.

As the former president of the Outagamie County Bar Association and the current vice president of the Brown County Bar Association, I was asked to share some of the experiences these leadership positions have brought me.

In my column from earlier this month, I discussed lawyers’ obligations to ensure confidential information is not disclosed when e-discovery procedures are taking place.

Dawn Jones Redstone may have traded a hammer for a video camera, but her connection with the construction industry didn’t end with the transition from journeyman carpenter to videographer and filmmaker.

In the heart of downtown Milwaukee, on the corner of Mason and Milwaukee Streets, sits Hotel Metro, an establishment lauded by the New York Times as “brilliantly designed” and “where to stay” in Milwaukee.