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LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Managing relationships means reading people
The law ultimately is a people business.
TORT REPORT: The evolution of the ‘concerted action’ theory of liability
While the “concerted action” theory of liability develops in Wisconsin, case law from a neighboring state and creative arguments can be successfully employed to defend product-liability cases.
JOB CITES: Check your employment at-will policy, it may be violating the law
Recently, the National Labor Relations Board has taken a stance against employer policies that foreclose any possibility of altering the at-will employment relationship.
Changes could be coming to Wisconsin OWI laws
In Wisconsin’s war against drunk driving, Sen. Alberta Darling has been a consistent crusader.
Applying ethics rules to ‘daily deals’
State ethics committees have struggled for decades with applying traditional ethics rules to new forms of electronic communications.
BEV BUTULA: Product safety database a click away
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission maintains a database website focusing on consumer product safety information, SaferProducts.gov.
FAMILY LAW: Relationships are at the crux of family law settlements
I feel like a new mom.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Rethinking legal education
This column has regularly discussed how law school does little to prepare young lawyers for practice realities in any size law firm. It has become increasingly clear that reality is catching up to law schools.
The stress-free law practice
Many of you saw the headline of this column and thought one of two things: “That is absolutely impossible” or “Yes, I want that.”
Spending subdued in state’s high court race
What if they held a Wisconsin Supreme Court election and nobody spent staggering sums trying to influence its outcome?
Commentary: Corporate minutes as a Trojan horse
What should director minutes say and how detailed should they be? It likely depends on the maturity of the company, the personality of its management, and the input of its lawyers.
BEV BUTULA: Criminal justice reference site a worthwhile stop
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service “is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.”
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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
