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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.
FAMILY LAW: What causes divorce
Perhaps the two most common questions I am asked by people who learn that I am a divorce lawyer are: “What causes most of the divorces I handle?” and “How can I prevent becoming one of your clients?”
BLAWG LOG: Is there a ‘Lawyer Bubble?’
A new book by a former litigator at Kirkland & Ellis, one of the nation’s largest law firms, has delivered a frisson to the already rattled legal profession.
BLAWG LOG: A quick survey of blogs written by judges
Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Kopf made national news this week when he wrote on his blog, Hercules and the Umpire, about the frequent irrelevancy of the Supreme Court. “A lot of what the Supreme Court does is simply irrelevant to what federal trial judges do on a daily basis,” wrote Judge Kopf, who presides and blogs from Lincoln, Neb.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Of productivity and age
The issue of the shaky status of older lawyers at large law firms refuses to die, as the de-equitization of partners “past their prime” continues.
‘Don’t invite me golfing’: Tips from in-house counsel
What’s the best way for outside lawyers to solicit work from in-house counsel? The answers might surprise you.
You and your shadow jury can make beautiful music together
Anyone who has been utilizing the services of a trial consultant for the past several years has likely been asked whether they wanted a “shadow jury” in their upcoming trial.
FAMILY LAW: Comparing Wisconsin’s practices nationally, internationally
One of the delights of attending a bar association meeting is seeing new places.
BEV BUTULA: Time for your health checkup
The Health Information & the Law website is a project of George Washington University and “is designed to serve as a practical online resource to federal and state laws governing access, use, release, and publication of health information.”
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- Milwaukee drops security personnel ordinance
- Wisconsin Supreme Court tacks on additional months to already suspended lawyer
- Supreme Court: Abortion protester’s First Amendment rights violated
- These doctors were censured. Wisconsin’s prisons hired them anyway
- Ruling reinstates lawsuit over ‘Black Lives Matter’ school posters
- Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider whether 175-year-old law bans abortion
- Wisconsin man facing bestiality and felony bail jumping charges
- Waukesha County woman indicted in National Health Care Fraud Law Enforcement Action
- Man sentenced to 15 months for fraud involving luxury vehicles
- Wisconsin Department of Justice Fire Marshal investigating fire that killed six
- Ozaukee County first responders save family of three, father and son on Milwaukee River
- Supreme Court sends Trump immunity case back to lower court, dimming chance of trial before election
Case Digests
- Termination of Parental Rights
- First Amendment Rights
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Late Filing
- Real Estate-Attorney Fees
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- Variance-Interpretation of Zoning Ordinances
- Sentencing
- Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause-Jury Instructions
- Unlawful Collection Practices-Evidence
- Sentencing-Vindictiveness
- Prisoner Grievances-Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies
