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The man accused of killing a 22-year-old Ho-Chunk woman originally from Wisconsin now faces a heightened charge of murder.

Downtown Milwaukee’s newest office building is finished and will soon welcome its anchor tenant — but won’t be fully occupied because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Whether more than 100,000 Wisconsinites remain on the voter rolls likely hinges on Brian Hagedorn, who won a seat on the state Supreme Court last year by appealing to conservatives but who has parted ways at times with other Republican-backed justices.

Although the economy has seen months of unemployment and business disruption from the coronavirus pandemic, predictions that bankruptcies would skyrocket have not come to pass.

Attorney Kimberley Motley is representing the families of the three males killed by a Wauwatosa police officer. Motley, whose practice is based in Afghanistan, is an attorney with clients all across the world.

Milwaukee County residents returned to jury duty this week, wearing masks, following signs, waiting on limited elevator space, sanitizing their hands, and moving around plexiglass barriers.

The top lawyer for Milwaukee County can practice again. Corporation Counsel Margaret Daun’s law license was suspended on June 16 after she had failed to meet the deadline for certifying she had completed 30 hours of required continuing-legal education in 2018 and 2019. Daun told the Journal Sentinel she had taken enough courses but hadn’t gotten around to filing the ...

Milwaukee County's top lawyer can't practice law at the moment because of a license suspension over a missed deadline by when she was supposed to show she had completed continuing legal-education requirements.

Patrick Marley Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Six weeks after the Wisconsin Supreme Court threw out the state’s stay-at-home order, city and county officials are learning they may have little ability to control the spread of the coronavirus. A lawsuit in Racine could decide how much power local officials have to close bars and gyms and take other steps to try to ...

State Supreme Court Justice Pat Roggensack said she has long been interested in whether judges were responsible for the large number of Black people who are behind bars. She then pointed the judges to a 2016 paper she wrote on "race and sentencing" and the work of the Supreme Court statistician, Michael Thompson, on "race and Wisconsin courts."

When most public life ground to a halt in mid-March to thwart the rapid spread of the coronavirus, a few essential court functions continued in Milwaukee County. Jury trials were not among them, and will likely be the last to return.

"The check is in the mail" is a phrase landlords often hear from tenants, but this week they're hearing it from their own trade association.

Some landlords just couldn't wait to file to evict their tenants. Nearly 50 eviction actions, including three in Milwaukee County, were filed in Wisconsin courts on Tuesday even though the statewide ban on evictions and foreclosure actions was still in effect and did not expire until the end of Tuesday.