Commentary

Oct 21, 2011

JOB CITES: Be mindful of what your employees do for recreation: It could cost you

Ordinarily, when you think of a compensable injury for workers’ compensation purposes, you think of an injury that occurs on the worksite while performing services growing out of or incidental to employment.

Oct 20, 2011

BLAWG LOG: Budget cuts haven’t meant prosecution cuts

In case any criminals reading this are hoping to avoid prosecution because budget cuts are reducing the reach of federal prosecutors, their hopes are ill-founded – at least for now, according to James Santelle, the U.S. Attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin.

Oct 19, 2011

LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: The Planning Process: Navigation vs. white water rafting

During the Great Recession, many previously successful business organizations with detailed and elaborate planning processes failed. Some pundits concluded that planning is not possible in these volatile times.

Oct 19, 2011

BLAWG LOG: Hylton on Marquette Law School and the sports law industry; Greipp on increasing brain power

The Marquette Sports Law program's involvement with the sports industry long pre-dates the founding of the National Sports Law Institute in 1989.

Oct 18, 2011

Pokes, tweets and the law: Social networking raises key workplace questions

Everyone knew that social networking was too prevalent not to have some impact on the workplace and labor laws. The only question was when.

Oct 17, 2011

LABORED RELATIONS: Controversy over the NLRB’s ‘Employee Rights’ poster

Effective Jan. 31, covered employers -- which includes most private sector employers -- will be required to post in their workplaces the National Labor Relations Board's "Employee Rights" poster, and industry groups have already filed suit seeking to block this action by t[...]

Oct 14, 2011

BLAWG LOG: Frank Daily on the Civil War sesquicentennial; O’Hear on contacts between police, public

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War or, as my friends in the South prefer to call it, the “War of Northern Aggression.”

Oct 13, 2011

LAWTECH: Greenline Legal crunches contracts in the clouds

Most software designed for law offices helps make attorneys and staff more efficient in tasks like scheduling, storing, finding, organizing, billing and communicating.

Oct 12, 2011

THE DARK SIDE: Can someone explain the Wall Street protests?

I'm afraid that I lack imagination. For the life of me, I cannot figure out what the protests on Wall Street (and now, in Madison) are all about.

Oct 12, 2011

BEV BUTULA: Wisconsin Blue Book Available

The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau announced that the 2011-2012 Wisconsin Blue Book is now available. From the book’s introduction:

Oct 11, 2011

TORT REPORT: Common interest privilege allows free flow of communication

There may be times in litigation or pre-litigation settings where discussions between the attorneys or parties to a lawsuit that have similar interests in the litigation may claim a privilege as to the content of the conversations. The privilege is known in Wisconsin as the c[...]

Oct 10, 2011

Commentary: Understanding whistleblower bounty rules is critical

If you want something done right, get someone else to do it. That seems to be the federal government’s mantra of late with respect to enforcement of the securities laws.

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