Free Newsletter
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Stop focusing on age
More and more, bar associations are focusing on older lawyers, but I cannot help but think that these association “knights on white horses” really have only one focus in mind: protecting their status in the minds of the public.
Fools rush in to mediation
Recently a woman, despite her basic fears, called me to discuss divorce mediation.
The statehouse: A place paved with the best intentions?
Until 5:05 p.m. Wednesday night, state Rep. Gary Hebl thought there would be an amendment to a bill requiring the installation of devices that prevent someone convicted more than once of drunken driving from starting a car after having a drink.
COURT GESTURES: Food for thought: What happens when attorneys, witnesses, jurors co-mingle
I guess I thought it would be a bigger deal if attorneys, witnesses and jurors in the same case went to eat in the same place. But I was wrong.
Success is in the details
Attorney Larry Coté’s representation of ex-construction foreman Walter Love could be seen as a failure.
Commentary: Can marketing your practice make you happier?
There’s been a dramatic shift in how psychologists view happiness. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard and apply ourselves, success will follow. And once we are successful, we’ll be happy.
BEV BUTULA: 50-state surveys can save time
If you have been reading my blog posts over the past five years, you know that I love it when I find quality 50-state surveys.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Ageism is not the answer
It has become a maxim that there are too many lawyers and that there is ongoing softness in demand for legal services.
What to do when you lose at circuit court
A trial lawyer represents his client through the final judgment – win or lose.
Unwrapping Wisconsin’s difficult land-use code
The Court of Appeals has peeled a layer off Wisconsin’s thick and smelly land-use onion.
COURT GESTURES: Eviction case should be evicted
Sometimes, it’s pretty easy to sense frustration in an appeal.
BEV BUTULA: SCOTUSblog made easy
I just downloaded the new SCOTUSblog iOS app. If you have an interest in the happenings of the U.S. Supreme Court, this app should be of interest.
Polls
Loading ...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
