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Testimony change depends on lawyers
There has been much attention paid recently, including in these pages, to a recent bill that purportedly heightens the admissibility standards for expert testimony.
LEGAL CENTS: The latest dish on daily deal sites
Hey, did you catch the Superbowl? Of course you did. You know who won, too!
Ritterbusch on advocacy; Boyden on legal error
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Bauer on anchoring and adjustment; DiMotto on summary judgment
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THE DARK SIDE: Somebody moved my bowling alley
The abuse of eminent domain in the United States is at least as old as the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in Berman v. Parker, 348 U.S. 26 (1954), in which the court shamelessly held that confiscating the property of homeowners and business owners, in order to transfer it to politically-connected cronies, was a valid public use, comparable to building a public road.
Capitol fight overshadows court race
Gov. Scott Walker’s public-employee revolution may cast a long shadow over the spring election for a 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Judge Sherman, Esenberg on public sector unions
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Due diligence is more important than retainer
One of the first goals for lawyers opening a new firm is to get as many clients as possible on a retainer basis, as many see the certainty of a retainer as the Holy Grail for fee collection.
Wisconsin Legislature Document Search
I was on the Wisconsin legislature page searching for some older bills when I noticed an announcement on the document search page. It states, "We have a new beta site for searching our documents.
JOB CITES: Snow days can leave work relations icy
By Matthew Feery Job Cites Snow Day. Is there a more welcoming phrase during the long, cold winter months? (Well, yes. Many. Like “single malt scotch” or “World Champion Chicago Cubs.” Sadly, blizzards of historic proportion remain more likely than the latter, sometimes leading to imbibing of the former. But I digress.) Who doesn’t like […]
Ritterbusch on Marquette Legal Clinic; Shucha on submitting law review articles
Check out these interesting legal blogs. Ritterbusch on the Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic. Shucha on submitting law review articles.
THE DARK SIDE: An Aesop’s Fable for the legal eagles
It was January in Wisconsin, and I was sitting in my dining room, watching the cardinals and chickadees at the birdfeeder through the window. I was shoveling fistfuls of fresh blueberries imported from Chile into my gullet, while I pondered how wonderful international trade is.
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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
