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There’s a shift going on at the Ozaukee County Justice Center.

Donald Heaney, an attorney at Madison-based Boardman & Clark LLP and former State Bar president, died Thursday morning.

The Greater Milwaukee Association of Legal Professionals, along with John Barrett, Milwaukee County’s clerk of court, and the staff of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court will host A Day in Circuit Court on Oct. 8.

Brown Deer officials and residents are waiting for a March court date to go to trial over the use of eminent domain for a $2.3 million streetscape project.

The mountains of paper clogging the Dodge County Justice Facility are disappearing. In their place are neatly stored computer files and the feeling that the people working in the courthouse are leading the way in embracing new technologies.

The smell is foul enough to gag a juror.

A Milwaukee church is suing the city to avoid paying more than $10,000 in property taxes.

The American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin Inc. is suing Milwaukee in U.S. District Court to end an ordinance that sets race-based preferences and goals for city construction contracts.

The Platteville Golf and Country Club will pay $12,000 for the grading and filling of a streambed and wetlands without obtaining a permit from the state Department of Natural Resources, according to a news release from Attorney General’s J.B. Van Hollen office.

A court ruling is forcing Brown Deer officials and residents to go to trial over the use of eminent domain for a $2.3 million streetscape project.

Wauwatosa resident Ronald Collision will pay $2,000 for violations regarding the maintenance of underground gasoline and dry cleaning storage tanks, according to a news release from Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's office.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Friday announced Progressive Rail Inc., and its Wisconsin Northern Railroad division, must pay $49,000 in forfeitures, assessments, costs and fees for violating Wisconsin's storm water and wetland protection laws, according to a news release from the Attorney General's office.

Four Morrison residents on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against town officials for prohibiting residents from placing signs with political or religious messages on their property, according to a Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty news release.

The city of Milwaukee on Friday filed a lawsuit in Milwaukee County Circuit Court against four companies for damages related to terra cotta installed on the exterior of City Hall during the building’s restoration project between 2006 and 2008, according to a city of Milwaukee news release.

The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin is suing Milwaukee to kill an ordinance that sets race-based preferences and goals for city construction contracts.

On an average day at the office, Wausau Tile Inc.’s Steven Schinker works with everyone from division managers to the founding father of the company as a “one-person law firm.”

A circuit court ordered a pair of Oshkosh contractors to pay $50,000 for violating state asbestos-handling laws during renovations in Fond du Lac, according to a news release from the Wisconsin Attorney General’s Office.

Sen. Rich Zipperer, R-Pewaukee, has drafted a bill that would protect drug makers from being held responsible for any claim based on strict liability for a defect in a drug if it has been approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration.

Four recent law school graduates are in the running for an unpaid special assistant position at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Madison.

The Greater Milwaukee Association of Legal Professionals, along with John Barrett, Milwaukee County’s clerk of court, and the staff of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court will host A Day in Circuit Court on Oct. 10. The seminar will be held at the Milwaukee County Courthouse in the jury orientation room, 901 N. Ninth St. Barrett will present an overview of ...

Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court John Barrett is cautioning people about a possible fine collection scam.

For the second time in three weeks, the U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a grant to the Wisconsin Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School's Frank J. Remington Center.