Wisconsin Law Journal – WI Legal News & Resources Wisconsin Legal News & Resources

The tab for private attorneys hired by Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin has now hit nearly $4.8 million for this legislative session, driven recently by fights over Gov. Tony Evers’ orders during the COVID-19 pandemic and a string of election lawsuits.

Tagged with: coronavirus lame-duck session Robin Vos Scott Fitz

The American Bar Association has introduced a website with information to help lawyers deal with difficulties posed to their practices by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tagged with: American Bar Association coronavirus

The University of Wisconsin-Madison was fined $74,000 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 28 violations of federal animal-research standards.

Tagged with: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Democrats will meet for just two hours each night of their national convention next month in Milwaukee, according to preliminary schedule for the event that has been scaled down due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Prosecutors charged two Madison women Wednesday with attacking a Wisconsin state senator during a chaotic night of violence outside the state Capitol last month.

The Mequon lawyer Stephanie Rapkin is pleading not guilty to a hate crime and a battery charge resulting from spitting on a teenage protester and her subsequent arrest.

Tagged with: Stephanie Rapkin

The application for the DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar's 15th annual $10,000 Law Student Diversity Scholarship Competition — is open.

Voters don't have to leave their vehicles to vote in the primary election in Eau Claire.

A Wisconsin appeals court on Wednesday upheld a ruling that the former attorney for a man whose story was documented in the 2015 Netflix series "Making a Murderer" violated a harassment restraining order against him.

Tagged with: Brendan Dassey Len Kachinsky Steve Avery Teresa Halbach Wisconsin Supreme Court

Federal prosecutors in Milwaukee and Detroit worked Wednesday to dispel concerns that federal agents headed to their cities will be used to break up protests, insisting that the agents will work side-by-side with local and state investigators to solve violent crimes.

Tagged with: George Floyd President Donald Trump

A suburban Milwaukee man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting a woman in a road-rage incident.

A group of powerful Wisconsin Democrats peppered a federal prosecutor Tuesday with questions about his plan to deploy additional federal agents in Milwaukee, demanding to know if the agents would be used for crowd control and to protect federal property.

Tagged with: City of Milwaukee George Floyd Gov. Tony Evers Tom Barrett

The Ogletree Deakins associate attorney Grady (Trey) Crosby III has been selected to serve on the Board of Directors for College Possible Milwaukee.

Tagged with: Grady Crosby III Ogletree Deakins

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice-elect Jill Karofsky says she will be sworn in while running an ultramarathon.

Everyone attending the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee next month will have to wear a face mask, consent to daily testing for COVID-19, fill out questionnaires and maintain their distance from others.

Tagged with: coronavirus Democratic National Convention Tom Barrett

Wisconsin environmental officials said Monday that they're monitoring the cleanup of what they're calling an accidental release of contaminated river and groundwater at a Marinette plant that manufactures fire extinguishers and fire-suppression systems.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin residents who receive disability benefits and who had been denied additional unemployment benefits made available due to the coronavirus pandemic can now receive those payments. The U.S. Department of Labor told the state Department of ...

Two women have been arrested for attacking a Wisconsin state senator during a chaotic night of violence near the state Capitol last month.

Tagged with: George Floyd Madison

More law librarians are using Zoom online videoconferencing to talk to patrons working from a distance, according to the 2020 Law Library Benchmarks report.

Tagged with: coronavirus

Deep-pocketed and often anonymous donors are pouring over $100 million into an intensifying dispute about whether it should be easier to vote by mail, a fight that could determine President Donald Trump's fate in the November election.

Tagged with: Absentee voting Joe Biden President Donald Trump

Will Cioci Wisconsin Watch Amy Moreland, a bartender in Madison who has been out of work since mid-March, immediately applied for state unemployment insurance after losing her job and eventually started receiving an extra $600 per week from the federal ...

Tagged with: coronavirus unemployment benefits

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals District III will begin to accept all documents by eFiling on Aug. 3.

Tagged with: Court of Appeals

Madison police are investigating a weekend shooting that left one man dead and another injured.

The U.S. attorney for Milwaukee sought to alleviate concerns Friday about federal agents being sent to the city by President Donald Trump, saying they will assist local and state law enforcement in combating violent crime and would not be breaking up protests.

Tagged with: Donald Trump Matthew Krueger protests

A collection of Chicago activist groups want a judge to block federal agents sent to the city to combat violent crime from interfering in or policing protests, arguing in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the surge ordered by President Donald Trump will inhibit residents' ability to hold demonstrations.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul protests William Barr

A Mequon lawyer charged with a hate crime for spitting on a teenager is considering filing a motion to change venue.

Tagged with: David Borowski David Hansher Jason Luczak Law Office of Stephanie Rapkin Stephanie Rapkin

Green Bay police are investigating threats made against city officials over a new mandate requiring face coverings in public buildings because of the coronavirus.

Tagged with: coronavirus

Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday ordered $250 million in cuts to state agencies this year — the latest financial hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Tagged with: coronavirus Tony Evers

Gov. Tony Evers said Thursday he was still considering a statewide mask mandate as the number of newly confirmed COVID-19 cases topped 1,000 for the second time in three days.

Tagged with: coronavirus

A judge ordered the release from prison of President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer on Thursday, saying he believes the government retaliated against him for planning to release a book about Trump before November's election.

Tagged with: Donald Trump Michael Cohen