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Reinhart named the 2024 Wisconsin law firm of the year by Benchmark Litigation
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. has been selected as the 2024 Wisconsin Law Firm of the Year by Benchmark Litigation. The award recognizes the nation’s most distinguished litigators and their respective law firms’ work over the past year. Benchmark Litigation facilitates months of peer-and-client-review-based research and analysis of submissions and recent casework to identify the [&h[...]
Milwaukee’s Common Council now has the most African Americans, women and openly LGBTQ members ever
History-making numbers.
Office of School Safety Provides Behavioral and Threat Assessment Management Training Ahead of 25th Anniversary of Columbine Shooting
On Wednesday, the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of School Safety (OSS) is holding a Behavioral and Threat Assessment Management (BTAM) training in Appleton, Wis. ahead of the 25-year anniversary of the shooting at Columbine High School in Columbine, Col. that occurred on April 20, 1999. BTAM trainings are designed to provide school administrators, […]
Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear arguments in Democratic governor’s suit against GOP-led Legislature
The lawsuit cites the committee’s rejection of dozens of conservation projects.
Lawsuit asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to strike down governor’s 400-year veto
Attorneys with Wisconsin's largest business lobbying group asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to strike down Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' use of a partial veto.
Bond set for teacher allegedly caught undressed in car with teenage student
If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison.
Wisconsin man pleads not guilty to neglect in disappearance of boy
Vang is being held on a $20,000 cash bond.
ACS Selects University of Wisconsin Law School’s Miriam Seifter for 2024 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholar Award
Professor Seifter has also distinguished herself through her creation of the State Democracy Research Initiative in 2021.
People with disabilities sue in Wisconsin over lack of electronic absentee ballots
The lawsuit states that because absentee voting for most in Wisconsin is by paper ballot.
Wisconsin Republicans ignore governor’s call to spend $125M to combat ‘forever chemicals’
“The Republicans are missing in action on this,” Evers said.
Native American voices are finally factoring into energy projects
Many Indigenous communities argue that their lands have been treated as sacrifice zones for development.
Steven Avery prosecutor Ken Kratz admits ‘mistakes were made’
Ken Kratz, the former Calumet County district attorney made famous for the murder conviction of Steven Avery, has admitted that "mistakes were made" during an exclusive interview with the Wisconsin Law Journal on Thursday.
Legal News
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
- Wisconsin prison inmate pleads not guilty to killing cellmate
- Waukesha man sentenced to 30 years for Sex Trafficking
- 12-year-old shot in Milwaukee Wednesday with ‘serious injuries’
- Milwaukee man convicted of laundering proceeds of business email compromise fraud schemes
- Giuliani, Meadows among 18 indicted in Arizona fake electors case
- Some State Bar diversity participants walk away from program
- Wisconsin court issues arrest warrant ‘in error’ for Minocqua Brewing owner
- Iranian nationals charged cyber campaign targeting U.S. Companies
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