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To practice in Wisconsin, lawyers are required to pay $224 a year in State Bar dues, but that doesn’t buy them a meaningful look into how bar leaders spend the money.

Tagged with: Board of Governors Bob Dreps Doug Kammer dues George Brown Margaret Wrenn Hickey State Bar Supreme Court Wisconsin State Bar

A sham lawsuit is upending the last remaining leased tenants of the Loyalty Building in downtown Milwaukee, a longtime restaurant owner says.

Tagged with: lawsuit Milwaukee Milwaukee County Circuit Court

Fred A. Risser introduces himself by handing out two business cards and a brief explanation for why his life no longer fits on one.

Tagged with: Fred Risser Jon Erpenbach Scott Walker

At a time when some law firms are scaling back on pro bono work, Marquette University is helping to fill a gap in Milwaukee.

Tagged with: Marquette University Milwaukee Justice Center Quarles & Brady LLP Rick Sankovitz Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek SC

The 2011-13 state budget has made it more expensive for attorneys — and, by extension, their clients — to request some standard medical data.

Tagged with: budget Cannon & Dunphy Department of Health Services fees Jeff Pitman Kevin Martin

The 115th paragraph of a July 8 Wisconsin Supreme Court opinion consists of a single sentence: “… Justice MICHAEL J. GABLEMAN joins this concurrence.”

Tagged with: Amelia Bizzaro Ann Walsh Bradley Annette Ziegler Beth Hanan David Prosser Michael Gableman N. Patrick Crooks Patience Drake Roggensack Scott Walker Shirley Abrahamson Supreme Court

A Milwaukee lobbyist is accusing the city of violating the spirit of a new state law that bans local bid preferences. Richard Wanta, executive director of the Wisconsin Underground Contractors Association, said the Legislature clearly meant to ban local preferences ...

Tagged with: Grant Langley Robin Vos

The Milwaukee attorney’s office Monday reported the state budget bill had rendered unenforceable a two-year-old local bid preference ordinance. The budget, which passed in June, includes language mandating that “except when necessary to secure federal aid, a political subdivision may ...

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A state lawmaker said he was concerned Wisconsin wasn’t getting the best possible deal on a new lease for the State Public Defender’s office in Racine. The state has agreed to pay $950,000 over 10 years for a 5,298-square-foot office ...

Tagged with: Dale Schultz Fred Risser State Public Defender

State Sen. Fred Risser might have more firsthand knowledge of eminent domain than any other member of the Wisconsin Legislature. Dane County in 2002 forced the Madison Democrat to sell his law office, at South Hamilton and West Wilson streets, ...

Tagged with: Eminent domain Fred Risser