Business review sites get thumbs up, down
While you may have opted to create profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn, chances are your name, law firm or both are listed in one or more online directories where people can post reviews, and you had no say in the matter.
Wisconsin Municipal Courts
Last week the City of Milwaukee Municipal Court announced that is was going live with their all-electronic court case management system.
Esenberg on matching funding; Federal Evidence Review on state secrets
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Cicchini on guilt by association; Schober on power of attorney
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Statute says Williams is innocent of possession
Montel Williams was recently accused of possessing "marijuana paraphernalia" at Mitchell International Airport.
A fool and his money are soon parted
The key to remaining young at heart, I believe, is to find amusement in human stupidity, rather than defaulting to furious.
Elder Law Resource
The National Legal Resource Center is a great clearinghouse of information for research on aging and elder rights.
Pettit on rejecting rental applicants; O’Hear on captive audiences
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High court to tackle ineffective assistance
This month, the U.S. Supreme Court granted cert in two related plea cases addressing ineffective assistance of counsel, Lafler v. Cooper (No. 10-2009) and Missouri v. Frye (No. 10-444).
Nursing mothers must be accommodated
For those of us here in Wisconsin who swear by the health benefits of breast milk, 2010 was a good year.
Balko on prosecutorial immunity; Bauer on confirmatory bias
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Legal News
- 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