Commentary

Dec 28, 2011

BEV BUTULA: Finding presidential documents doesn’t take an executive order

There are a variety of resources available when looking for Presidential documents.

Dec 27, 2011

View from around the state: Justice’s decisions leave bad perception

Just when you thought it was safe, more disappointing news came out this month about our state Supreme Court.

Dec 27, 2011

THE DARK SIDE: I miss the old courthouse cafeteria

Now that, after an 11-year hiatus, I've returned to being a full-time courthouse rat, people ask me what's the biggest difference.

Dec 26, 2011

BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on the effect of truth in sentencing

Previous posts in this series have examined the latest available incarceration data from Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. This post considers historical data. I’m particularly interested in the impact of a major change in sentencing law that was adopted in Wisconsin in 1998.

Dec 22, 2011

LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Are you excluded from malpractice insurance coverage?

The cost of malpractice insurance is an issue for every lawyer. Annual malpractice premiums cost thousands of dollars, often straining the ability of small firms and sole practitioners to purchase when premiums approach 10 percent or more of their income on a product they likel[...]

Dec 20, 2011

LEGAL CENTS: Marketing your firm with the clothes off your back

A while ago I realized that sometimes I’m a walking advertisement. The Nike swoosh on my running gear, the Bucky Badger sweatshirt and the Rolex crown on my watch.

Dec 19, 2011

EDITORIAL: Show them the money

The State Bar of Wisconsin taxes its members and then refuses to completely reveal how that money is spent.

Dec 19, 2011

THE DARK SIDE: Cite this column, but not the opinion

If dictionaries were written by lawyers, one of the definitions for “frustration” would say “finding a case directly on point, but being unable to cite it because it is unpublished.”

Dec 16, 2011

BEV BUTULA: American Geographical Society Library

Did you know that UW Milwaukee is home to the American Geographical Society Library? I had the pleasure of hearing one of their librarians speak yesterday. The talk was a fascinating exploration of the library’s physical and online collection of maps, atlases, journals, and photographs.

Dec 15, 2011

BLAWG LOG: Hylton on starting your own baseball league

Am I right to assume that Organized Baseball today would reject an application from a well-funded, well-organized independent league that wanted to join the National Association?

Dec 14, 2011

THE DARK SIDE: The greatest threat to liberty ever

I had been generally aware that some congressmen who don’t like the First Amendment and who particularly dislike the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Citizens United v. FEC, 130 S.Ct. 876 (2010), wanted to get around the decision by passing a constitutional amendment to overt[...]

Dec 13, 2011

LABORED RELATIONS: 2012 could be an uneventful year for the NLRB

Several months after first proposing sweeping changes to streamline the union representation election process in June – the so-called “quickie election” rules – the National Labor Relations Board has approved a more modest, scaled back set of reforms.

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