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Rebecca Furdek has joined Husch Blackwell's Milwaukee office as an associate. She's one of six new attorneys that the firm has added to its white collar, internal investigations and compliance practice group.

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Judge Shelley Grogan and Judge Gregory Gill Jr. are Wisconsin's two newest Courts of Appeals judges, according to unofficial election results from the Associated Press.

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Justice Stephen Breyer said on Tuesday that liberal advocates of big changes at the Supreme Court, including increasing the number of justices, should think "long and hard" about what they're proposing.

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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jill Underly rode support from the state teachers’ union and an overwhelming financial advantage, fueled by the Democratic Party, to win election Tuesday as Wisconsin superintendent of schools, defeating Republican-backed Deb ...

The federal government has agreed to pay $1 million to the children of an Army veteran who froze to death after he was discharged from a Veterans Affairs hospital in Madison.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has disciplined a Milwaukee lawyer for a sixth time for attorney-ethics violations.

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Green Bay police have made an arrest in connection with a fatal stabbing that followed a road rage incident, officials said.

The COVID-19 vaccination center at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison will be able to increase the number of doses delivered by 2,100 a week thanks to new staffing support from the federal government starting on Wednesday, Gov. Tony Evers announced.

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A Wisconsin appeals court ruling clears the way for names of businesses that have had outbreaks of COVID-19 can be made public, but the decision is expected to be appealed to the state Supreme Court before any information is released.

DeWitt law firm has combined with Gerbers Law in Green Bay.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to announce punishment this week for a Milwaukee attorney accused of ignoring two of his clients.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was fighting a Connecticut court sanction in a defamation lawsuit brought by relatives of some of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney will challenge Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul next year.

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A Brookfield woman will spend a year in jail after she dragged a puppy to its death.

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A split Wisconsin Supreme Court decided the Wisconsin Department of Transportation made a valid offer to a Fox Valley church for land obtained through eminent domain.

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Kalvin Barrett will serve as the new Dane County sheriff.

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Gov. Tony Evers has granted another 17 pardons, bringing his total number of pardons to 174.

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Husch Blackwell is opening two new offices in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a railroad company is responsible for paying the bill for cleaning up contamination in a park on Lake Superior.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry said Thursday that his campaign had raised more than $1 million since he got in the race in mid-February. Lasry is running for the seat currently held by Republican ...

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A conservative law firm wants state corrections officials to relax COVID-19 safety protocols and allow volunteer ministers to visit prison inmates.

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Wisconsin's top elections administrator said Wednesday that she never received any formal complaints about Green Bay's mayor ceding authority for running the presidential election in that city to a Facebook-funded consultant.

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Authorities say a suspected drunk driver crashed into a Wisconsin State Patrol car Wednesday as officers were removing two young children from another vehicle whose driver was pulled over on suspicion of operating while intoxicated.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' statewide mask mandate on Wednesday, stripping the governor of one of his last remaining tools to curb the spread of the coronavirus as the state stands on the precipice of another surge in infections.

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The Association for Women Lawyers Foundation is accepting applications for its 2021 scholarships supporting female law students.

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New nationwide law-school rankings list UW Law School as tied for the 29th best law school in the country, while Marquette University Law School remains at no. 102.

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Seven more pharmacy chains are set to offer COVID-19 vaccine shots in Wisconsin, state health officials said Tuesday.

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The teenager who shot the harrowing video of George Floyd under the knee of the Minneapolis police officer now charged in his death testified Tuesday that she began recording because "it wasn't right, he was suffering, he was in pain."

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A judge should deny a request to be released by a Wisconsin woman convicted of stabbing a classmate to please the internet horror character Slender Man because she remains a danger to others, a prosecutor argued in response to the petition for conditional release.

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The Association for Women Lawyers found a way to preserve the celebration and camaraderie of Women Judges’ Night with its first “When There 9K” run/walk.

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