LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: What should your advertising say?
Recently I advised a caller on the content of an advertisement that he wanted to place in order to provide notice that his practice was for sale.
Hold out for quality clients
If you, like many of your colleagues, have stocked your practice with clients that aren’t a good fit, you’ll spend much of your career feeling frustrated, unappreciated and resentful.
BEV BUTULA: Searching SEC contracts just got easier
A new website launched last week that allows researchers to search SEC contract filings.
ON THE DEFENSIVE: Searching for justice in the justice system
More than half of all black men in Milwaukee County have spent time in prison, according to a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee study.
Editorial: Judging by the correct standards
Ten defendants have completed the Rock County Veterans Treatment Court program in the three years since the court’s founding, and not one has reoffended.
BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on Milwaukee: The most dangerous size
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics issued a new report compiling nearly two decades of data on gun crime, Firearm Violence, 1993-2011.
Resistance is futile: You can’t ignore social media and have a strong career in the law
Ping pong balls kept bouncing into the attorneys standing near the table tennis area, but no one seemed to mind.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: It’s all about perspective
“Perception is reality,” is an old phrase known to all marketing and sales people.
JOB CITES: No luck required for employers that follow tip pool law
You’ve got to ask yourself one question: Is my practice of tip pooling rendering my use of the minimum wage tip credit improper?
Hey lawyers, at least you’re not us
Attorneys have placed No. 117 in CareerCast.com’s 2013 ranking of 200 careers. Finishing dead last on that list, at No. 200, was “Reporter (Newspaper).”
BEV BUTULA: Victims’ rights, protections at your fingertips
The Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center maintains a website focused on victim rights and protections.
Legal News
- Wisconsin attorney loses law license, ordered to pay $16K fine
- Former Wisconsin police officer charged with 5 bestiality felony counts
- Judge reject’s Trump’s bid for a new trial in $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation case
- Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police
- The Latest: Supreme Court arguments conclude in Trump immunity case
- Net neutrality restored as FCC votes to regulate internet providers
- Wisconsin Attorney General asks Congress to expand reproductive health services
- Attorney General Kaul releases update at three-year anniversary of clergy and faith leader abuse initiative
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
WLJ People
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Russell Nicolet
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Benjamin Nicolet
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Dustin T. Woehl
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Katherine Metzger
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Joseph Ryan
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – James M. Ryan
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Dana Wachs
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Mark L. Thomsen
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Matthew Lein
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Jeffrey A. Pitman
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – William Pemberton
- Power 30 Personal Injury Attorneys – Howard S. Sicula