Commentary

Aug 21, 2015

Cyber security: Is your company protected?

In the past decade, technological innovation has occurred faster than ever before, creating opportunities that construction industry professionals never could have imagined.

Aug 18, 2015

BENCH BLOG: Daubert standard weighs on medical witness

A medical-malpractice case — an area of litigation replete with expert testimony — recently spurred the Court of Appeals to examine how Daubert principles should be applied to medical experts.

Aug 10, 2015

LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Taking definitions into account

What are the most important words in a dictionary? For lawyers, the most important words deal with accounting.

Aug 7, 2015

View from around the state: Sensible GOP senators should save the GAB

When his Republican colleagues were stuffing the state budget with non-fiscal policies that didn't belong there, state Sen. Rob Cowles wisely objected.

Aug 5, 2015

BENCH BLOG: State Supreme Court keeps on truckin’

Can a jury consider the training and experience of a semi-trailer truck driver in determining his negligence? Is a commercially licensed truck driver held to higher standard of care when a semi-trailer is involved in a collision?

Aug 4, 2015

View from around the state: Schimel has right attitude on open records

Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel spoke at an open government forum on Wednesday at a Madison hotel. It had been arranged before the effort to gut the open records law took place just before the Fourth of July weekend, but that episode made the forum all the more timely.

Aug 3, 2015

Closing Arguments: Should language banning same-sex marriage be removed from the state constitution?

Tamara B. Packard, an attorney at Cullen Weston Pines & Bach, and Michael Dean, a lawyer whose main office is in Brookfield, battle over the question: Should language banning same-sex marriage by removed from the state constitution?

Jul 30, 2015

‘Blow out your candles … carefully’

When her son turned 2 years old earlier this year, L’erin Dobra had the typical quandary — choosing a birthday party theme. Pirate? Firefighter? Superhero? Harry Potter? ... Personal injury lawyer? http://bit.ly/1OyM8UW

Jul 24, 2015

View from around the state: State needs clear campaign laws, disclosure

Gov. Scott Walker understands the danger of anonymous electioneering.

Jul 23, 2015

ON THE DEFENSIVE: Doubling down on a failed approach

America has 5 percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of its prisoners. As a society, we should have the courage to recognize that doubling down on a failed system is not a means of making our communities safer.

Jul 20, 2015

ON ETHICS: Backdating scheme fells law firm

The now-defunct New York firm of Dewey & LeBouef collapsed for many reasons. One of those, it is clear now, was that the now-former partners ignored their responsibilities to the firm and to each other.

Jul 17, 2015

View from around the state: State’s open-records law benefits everyone

Victory has a thousand fathers, the saying goes, but defeat is an orphan.

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