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BEV BUTULA: Learn how to write ‘good’
Looking to enhance your writing skills? Bryan Garner, the highly recognized author and editor, offers a variety of interesting materials on his website, LawProse.
Federal court grasps the ‘selfie’
While much of the English-speaking world was getting comfortable with – or being made uncomfortable by – its new understanding of the word “twerking” last month thanks to Miley Cyrus, the federal judiciary was welcoming another modern addition to its lexicon with somewhat less fanfare.
COURT GESTURES: ‘Breaking Bad’ on charges
A co-worker sent me a link Wednesday to a blog post that discusses the possible charges against the character of Walter White in the AMC show “Breaking Bad.”
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Empathy the missing ingredient in poor client relations
The legal profession does not require anything remotely resembling effective client communication as part of our law school curriculums.
Leopold and Loeb: A match made in hell?
On May 21, 1924, 19-year-old Nathan Leopold was out on a mission with his lover and equally brilliant partner, Richard Loeb. When they spotted Loeb’s 14-year-old cousin, Bobby Franks, walking home from an after-school basketball game, they offered him a ride. The Franks family never saw their son alive again.
COURT GESTURES: The ‘kiss of death’
I think I may have found the oddest entry ever put into a court record. And it’s in Milwaukee County.
BRIEFS FOR THE BRIEF WRITER: When in doubt, appeal
It sounds so simple: If a judgment or order “disposes of the entire matter in litigation as to one or more of the parties” and is properly entered or recorded (Sec. 808.03(1), Stats.), it is “final,” and the appeal time starts ticking.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Small firms and the small-business challenge
It has become conventional wisdom in this country that small businesses are the real engine of economic growth and job creation.
BEV BUTULA: Get attorney rates from RateDriver
Imagine my excitement when my Wolters Kluwer/CCH rep mentioned a free mobile application that provides attorney rates from major markets based on practice area.
COURT GESTURES: Location, location, location
Wait, where exactly did I move? I guess close enough to a place where a dead body was hidden by alleged prostitutes before being found several days later.
COURT GESTURES: A TAD on the technical side
The takeaway from Friday’s treatment alternatives and diversion symposium in Madison was pretty clear: there needs to be a better way to prevent those who are arrested from coming back.
New case highlights clash of dueling public policies
Recent developments interpreting the protections and limitations of the Drivers Policy Protection Act signal that conflict may be on the way between the DPPA and Wisconsin’s Open Records Law – a reality that may require more resources expended by information-hungry[...]
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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
