Tech Toolkit: Start the new year with technology planning
For small and midsize businesses, technology purchasing is based on reaction rather than planning. If a laptop breaks or a security breach begins melting the network, then it's time to get shopping.
Prison dental floss, errant bottle rockets, miffed mistresses — it’s 2012’s memorable suits
The Week magazine has released its list of “America’s 9 craziest lawsuits” for 2012, and as with years past, they provoke quite a few reactions of, “Really?”
BEV BUTULA: Need a transcript? Start with the source
I was recently asked about possible sources for free TV and radio transcripts or replays. There are a few places you might want to check prior to using a fee-based service.
FAMILY LAW: Court of Appeals decision creates family law problems
At first blush, a recent Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision doesn’t appear to affect family law cases at all.
Bringing the Fourth Amendment into the 21st century
The New York Times recently reported that the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill “that would strengthen privacy protection for e-mails by requiring law enforcement officials to obtain a warrant from a judge in most cases before gaining access to messages in individual accounts stored electronically.”
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Selling a practice? Use this checklist
Interest in the sale of law practices continues strong and unabated. This may reflect continued economic stress, the aging of the profession or simply greater desire to look for greener pastures outside the law.
ON THE DEFENSIVE: Marijuana law should go up in smoke
In November, the voters of Colorado and Washington supported initiatives that legalized marijuana within their states.
Lemon law lawyer lays an egg
Turns out Vince Megna is himself churning out defective products. Somebody call a lawyer.
BLAWG LOG: Mazzie on ‘Time for a serious conversation about guns’
No child should have to endure such things. No child. Anywhere.
LEGAL CENTS: New ABA book offers advice on leading lawyers
Analytical. Skeptical. A high degree of urgency. A preference for autonomy. A lower need for social interaction. Resistant to change. Thin-skinned.
Editorial: Don’t just sit back and complain
It would be easy to criticize Polk County Judge Jeffrey Anderson for setting a low bail amount for Scott Youngmark less than two weeks before Youngmark allegedly murdered his fiancée, Kari Roberts, on Dec. 1.
The skinny on iPad mini for attorneys
Lawyers reviewing the latest gadget released by Apple – the junior-sized iPad mini – are focusing on its size, shape, weight and usability, elements of what tech-geeks call its “form factor.”
Legal News
- Outside the RNC, small Milwaukee businesses and their regulars tried to salvage a sluggish week
- Biden called to resign immediately after the president announces he won’t seek reelection
- Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Harris
- Local PA cops allegedly thought Trump’s would-be assassin was Secret Service
- Biden-Lead Secret Service admits agency denied past requests by Trump’s campaign for tighter security
- Class action filed against Walgreens
- Former Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant pleads guilty to smuggling contraband
- Two dead, one injured after Ozaukee County water rescue
- RNC Final Day: Trump accepts GOP Nomination
- Wisconsin officials intervene in Planned Parenthood action
- 7th Circuit adopts modifications to Rules 31, 34, 40, 47 and 60
- MPD issues statement on outside agency officer assignments
Case Digests
- Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes
- Separation of Powers- Legislative Oversight of Executive Actions
- Notice of Recommitment and Involuntary Medication Hearings
- Firearm Possession-Sufficiency of Evidence
- Motion for Substitute Counsel
- Jury Instructions
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act
- Fourth and 14th Amendment Rights-Parental Medical Neglect
- Eminent Domain
- Intrusion Upon Seclusion Claim-§1983 claim
- Employment Law- Title VII
- Employment Law