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Milwaukee construction executive Brian Ganos was sentenced to serve six-and-a-half years in prison on Monday for orchestrating a decade-long scheme that exploited programs used to help minority companies win construction contracts.

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These days, there’s a lot that a spiffy website, a sharp social-media presence and a keen eye for the hot topics of the day can do for your law firm.

Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo is suing a Cedarburg contractor for failing to perform nearly $250,000 worth of remodeling work at his home.

A bill that would make it a felony to trespass on the site of a pipeline project won approval from a Legislative committee on Wednesday.

Tagged with: ALEC American Legislative Exchange Council

A new bill in the state Legislature would supplement federal tax incentives by offering a state tax break to those that invest in opportunity zones.

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As a “born tinkerer,” Erica Liabo-VanDerPol has always been drawn to new technology.

Bryan Kroes didn’t take a direct path to a legal career.

If drywall and flooring could talk, it'd probably have a dark story to tell about Wisconsin's ongoing construction boom.

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A lawsuit filed this week accuses a Fox Valley construction company of failing to give its employees a full lunch break, effectively "shaving" hours from workers' weekly earnings — a claim the company denies.

Tagged with: wages

The Milwaukee attorney Robert Menard, who billed himself as a lawyer for the "average Joe," is accused in a 14-count criminal complaint of stealing from his former law partner, his uncle and various clients.

Tagged with: Derzon & Menard office of lawyer regulation OLR Robert Menard

Eau Claire is faced with yet another legal challenge from familiar plaintiffs over its use of a development district after the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld its right to pay developers cash incentives last summer.

A new report confirms what advocates of replacing Green Bay's maximum-security institution have long been arguing: the prison is overcrowded, out-of-date and dangerous.

Tagged with: Green Bay Correctional Institution Tony Evers

A lawsuit accuses the Milwaukee Brewers of establishing a “wheelchair ghetto” in Miller Park where disabled fans aren’t able to have a clear view of the ball field from their seats and are prevented entirely from getting to some parts of the stadium.

Tagged with: Americans with Disabilities Act Miler Park

There are encyclopedias, and then there’s Deborah Moser.

For Patty Siekert, there’s never been any doubt that her job makes a difference.

General construction contractor Mortenson tries to do more than simply check the box when it comes to hiring women- and minority-owned businesses.

Since Shannon Jefferson founded Gibraltar Industries, a commercial and residential cleaning business, after a bittersweet layoff in 2007, she has had a series of revelations.

Tweet Garot has striven hard to work with local businesses, encouraging both the formation of a diverse workforce and giving to charities.

For Melissa Goins, new vice president of development at J. Jeffers & Co., this year brought the culmination of various projects that are expected to prompt further change in Milwaukee’s Bronzeville neighborhood, the historic economic center of the city’s African-American community.

Through company-wide work groups, a promotion policy and assistance to homebuyers, Green Bay-based Associated Bank is seeking to foster inclusiveness both inside and outside its doors.

The U.S. Postal Service has asked a federal judge to toss out a developer’s lawsuit seeking to evict the USPS from the sprawling building it occupies in downtown Milwaukee.

Tagged with: Quarles & Brady

A developer's lawsuit seeking to evict the U.S. Postal Service from its office in downtown Milwaukee has landed in federal court.

Tagged with: Milwaukee County Circuit Court Quarles & Brady

The owners of the largest swath of private land left near the massive factory Foxconn Technology Group is building in southeast Wisconsin are suing to prevent the village of Mount Pleasant from seizing a sliver of the land for a road-expansion project.

Tagged with: Eminent domain Foxconn

Katherine Halopka-Ivery tried her first case in middle school.

Timothy Maynard always thought it would be fulfilling to work as an attorney.

Wes Webendorfer was drawn to politics long before he decided he wanted to become a lawyer.

Bailey Larsen was drawn to math for a simple reason: every problem has a correct answer.

A group of homeowners filed a new lawsuit against Mount Pleasant on Tuesday, challenging the village's decision in June to declare thousands of acres of farmland in Foxconn's path blighted.

Tagged with: Alan Marcuvitz Eminent domain Erik Olsen Foxconn

As Foxconn Technology Group officially marked the start on Thursday of work on its $10 billion factory in Mount Pleasant, fears swirled that local officials were moving to unleash a legal means of forcing homeowners to make way for the technology giant: eminent domain.

Tagged with: Eminent domain Gov. Scott Walker Kelda Roys Mahlon Mitchell Matt Flynn

When Brown County officials unveiled the gleaming, copper dome of the county's newly restored courthouse in November, it was a glimpse of what the building looked like when it was first built 107 years ago.

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