Recent Articles from Jane Pribek
LEGAL CENTS: The marketing trick you probably haven’t tried
Content marketing isn’t new, but if you’re not doing it yet, you’re missing out.
LEGAL CENTS: Marketing in a mobile world
For many people, the smartphone has become almost a new appendage.
LEGAL CENTS: The ins and outs of family leave
I am almost always late. So 13 years ago, when my obstetrician told me the due date for my first baby, I assumed she would take after her mother and show up late. Instead, she came a week early.
Legal Cents: Get over your phone hang ups
A few years ago, I was living every reporter’s nightmare. Every call I made went to people’s voicemails.
Lin looks for the challenges
Enku Edgar Lin realized he was pursuing the right practice area while interning as a 2L with the State Public Defender’s Office in the Milwaukee Trial Division.
Turczyn turns dreams into business
There’s nothing more rewarding to Melissa Turczyn than when a client texts her a photo of a check.
Bricco shows her toughness
An attorney has to be tough to succeed in indigent defense.
Linnen racks up 7th Circuit wins
Julie Linnen penned an especially prophetic eighth-grade essay. She wrote that someday she wanted “to be a lawyer for people who can’t afford lawyers.”
LEGAL CENTS: Don’t be too quick to dis the discount
Offering clients a discount at the conclusion of representation, in exchange for a lump sum payment in full, can be a smart business strategy.
LEGAL CENTS: Foxwordy falls short for my networking needs
Foxwordy, launched this past February, is a private platform, built “by lawyers for lawyers.”
LEGAL CENTS: Put these on your summer reading list
Summer. It’s the perfect time to take a break from reading opinions, statutes and codes, horn books and the ever-popular correspondence from opposing counsel expressing consternation at your client’s actions/position.
Hart sets an example while guiding others
Mentoring isn’t a skill for attorney Rachelle Hart; it’s a state of mind.
Legal News
- Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider whether 175-year-old law bans abortion
- Wisconsin man facing bestiality and felony bail jumping charges
- Waukesha County woman indicted in National Health Care Fraud Law Enforcement Action
- Man sentenced to 15 months for fraud involving luxury vehicles
- Wisconsin Department of Justice Fire Marshal investigating fire that killed six
- Ozaukee County first responders save family of three, father and son on Milwaukee River
- Supreme Court sends Trump immunity case back to lower court, dimming chance of trial before election
- Brewers have American Family Field escalators inspected after malfunction results in 11 injuries
- US wants Boeing to plead guilty to fraud over fatal crashes, lawyers say
- GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin appeal ruling allowing disabled people to obtain ballots electronically
- 11 people injured when escalator malfunctions at Milwaukee ballpark
- Judge receives ethics fine after endorsing candidate
Case Digests
- Termination of Parental Rights
- First Amendment Rights
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Late Filing
- Real Estate-Attorney Fees
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- Variance-Interpretation of Zoning Ordinances
- Sentencing
- Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause-Jury Instructions
- Unlawful Collection Practices-Evidence
- Sentencing-Vindictiveness
- Prisoner Grievances-Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies