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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.

Tagged with: human trafficking Kimberly Motley

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.

Tagged with: coronavirus jurors Mary Triggiano Milwaukee County Courthouse

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 ...

Tagged with: Board of Bar Examiners coronavirus Margaret Daun Milwaukee County office of lawyer regulation OLR

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.

Tagged with: Margaret Daun Milwaukee County office of lawyer regulation OLR

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 ...

Tagged with: coronavirus Racine Robin Vos Scott Fitzgerald Wisconsin Supreme Court

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."

Tagged with: George Floyd Pat Roggensack Rebecca Dallet

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.

Tagged with: eviction

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.

Tagged with: Foreclosure Milwaukee County Circuit Court