A West Allis attorney with a lengthy disciplinary history had his license revoked Wednesday by the state Supreme Court.
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Read More »A West Allis attorney with a lengthy disciplinary history had his license revoked Wednesday by the state Supreme Court.
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Read More »Wisconsin justices voted this week to accept five new cases, concerning everything from property disputes to right to counsel.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court this week suspended Milwaukee attorney Benjamin Harris and publicly reprimanded suspended Chicago attorney Lisa Webber Hicks.
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Read More »Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Janet Protasiewicz is running for the Milwaukee County Circuit Court’s Branch 45 judicial seat.
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Read More »Wisconsin justices on Friday suspended a Milwaukee-area attorney from practicing law in Wisconsin for one year.
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Read More »Steve Biskupic and Michelle Jacobs, both former U.S. attorneys, opened a litigation firm in Mequon this week.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday publicly reprimanded Milwaukee attorney Timothy Riordan for misconduct, despite the attorney’s protest.
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Read More »The Milwaukee Bar Association honored a law student, a longtime attorney and a Milwaukee firm Wednesday at its annual Pro Bono Publico awards.
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Read More »James Cyril Kotz, an Illinois lawyer whose license to practice in Wisconsin has been suspended since 2006, had his license revoked Tuesday by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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Read More »Pewaukee attorney James J. Gende II received a public reprimand from the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday as the result of disputes with Gende’s former employer, Cannon & Dunphy SC.
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Read More »After dwindling from a recent high of more than 40 employees, the law firm of Cook & Franke SC shuttered its doors earlier this year with a staff of just two.
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Read More »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.
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Read More »Bridget Boyle, a partner at Boyle, Boyle & Boyle SC, Milwaukee, has had her Wisconsin law license suspended for 60 days.
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Read More »In a letter (PDF) filed Friday with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Milwaukee attorney Frank Gimbel argued in favor of a public forum for handling the pending ethics case against state Justice David Prosser.
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Read More »Some days, Michael Redding’s work at ManpowerGroup Inc., Milwaukee, takes him back to his classes as an undergraduate majoring in business at Truman State University.
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Read More »Before Mark Fogarty went to law school, he worked in accounting and finance at Kimberly-Clark Corp., Neenah. Although he spent a few years in private practice after graduation from Georgetown Law, Fogarty soon found his way back into the business world, working as in-house counsel at Menasha Corp. from 1994-97, then senior and international counsel at Kimberly-Clark.
Read More »In the nearly 11 years since Kelli Taffora graduated law school, she has worked in private practice, for state government and in the private sector.
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Read More »Though he started out with seven years in private practice, Karl Dahlen has since spent the past 18 years making a name for himself as in-house counsel at companies such as A.O. Smith Corp., Milwaukee; Tower Automotive Inc., Racine; and, for the past 14 years, Land’s End Inc., Dodgeville.
Read More »Daniel Graff was interested in working in the private sector after law school, but, as he said, it “didn’t take him up on the offer.” Instead, Graff found his way into the public side of law, working 17 years for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources before joining the state Department of Transportation in July.
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Read More »Retired University of Wisconsin Law School professor Jane Larson died over the holidays.
Read More »Teri Jendusa Nicolai did not care about the judge’s gender when she sought a restraining order against her ex-husband in 2004.
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Read More »A receivership case against James Cape & Sons Co., which went out of business in 2005, was dismissed Monday after six years in the court system.
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Read More »A Michigan education group is suing Dane County’s district attorney to recoup legal costs it incurred while pursuing an open records request tied to Wisconsin’s new collective bargaining law. Education Action Group Foundation Inc., Muskegon, Mich., twice requested all of ...
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Read More »Monica Murphy’s work at Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc. has changed the way she looks at the world around her.
Read More »An accounting background might come in handy for the recently-named next dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School.
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