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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has affirmed the Board of Bar Examiners’ decision not to admit a bar applicant who, among other things, failed to disclose a harassment conviction.

Tagged with: Board of Bar Examiners Daniel Hausserman

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has declined to adopt a recommendation that it suspend a Lake Geneva attorney’s license three times longer than what lawyer-regulators had requested.

Tagged with: David Schiltz office of lawyer regulation OLR

A well-known Marquette University law professor was recently relieved from his teaching duties.

The state Supreme Court says a southwestern Wisconsin town doesn't have to take care of land a group contends is a cemetery.

Tagged with: Michael Rosborough Thomas Harnisch Wisconsin Supreme Court

A class-action lawsuit that claims Chinese-manufactured drywall made American homeowners sick is revving up in Virginia.

State utility regulators have asked the Wisconsin Department of Justice to investigate a waterworks project in Lodi after claiming the city lacked authorization to build it.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will be kicking off 2019 with a lineup of oral arguments that includes a dispute between a city and town over whether the land for a sand mine was properly annexed.

Tagged with: Charles Feltes Eminent domain John Damon

Gov. Scott Walker has tapped the leader of the state’s parole commission and the legal counsel for a state regulatory agency to fill two spots on the Milwaukee County bench.

Tagged with: Brad Schimel Mary Kuhnmuench Paul Dedinsky Richard Sankovitz

A state appeals court says a man who sent his ex-girlfriend threatening messages as well as a live python was properly convicted.

Tagged with: stalking

A 40-year-old Wisconsin man has been arrested for fifth offense operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Tagged with: drunken driving

Two Wisconsin men have been charged with injuring a Minnesota state trooper during a traffic stop.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is up and working as she recuperates from cancer surgery. A spokeswoman for the court, Kathy Arberg, also says that Ginsburg remained in New York at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is proposing a rule change meant to improve the structure of the process that bar applicants with disabilities go through to request special accommodations when they take the state’s bar exam.

Tagged with: bar exam Board of Bar Examiners Wisconsin Supreme Court

MIDDLETON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s largest distillery is on the path to new ownership after filing for bankruptcy last month. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that local competitor Dancing Goat Distillery in Cambridge submitted the winning bid of nearly $2.5 ...

The Milwaukee-based Family Mediation Center will be offering a spring mediation training session on family law.

Tagged with: Continuing Legal Education Family Law

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorney General Brad Schimel recommended four other people, including one of his own campaign workers, for an open judgeship that Gov. Scott Walker gave him after he lost re-election, newly released ...

Wisconsin saw the defeat of Gov. Scott Walker, a teenage girl mysteriously missing and a summer of storms in 2018.

Tagged with: Jayme Closs

A New York City charter bus driver was ordered to turn over his passport while he faces charges in the death of a newlywed law clerk he's accused of hitting and dragging down the street.

A prosecutor is pushing ahead with a lawsuit against a West Virginia hemp farm despite federal action that legalizes the crop.

Authorities say a northern Wisconsin driver had her three children along in the car while she and her mother were using marijuana.

A New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than four years and prison for a tax refund scheme that stretched from Puerto Rico to Wisconsin.

A New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than four years and prison for a tax-refund scheme that stretched from Puerto Rico to Wisconsin.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is up and working as she recuperates from cancer surgery.

Tagged with: Ruth Bader Ginsburg U.S. Supreme Court

The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and its private foundation have reached a multimillion-dollar settlement as part of a bankruptcy case related to five building projects.

Tagged with: UW-Oshkosh

A divided U.S. Supreme Court won't let the Trump administration begin enforcing a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

Tagged with: Asylum Donald Trump John Roberts

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will be hearing public testimony on a change to the pro hac vice rule.

Tagged with: pro hac vice Wisconsin Supreme Court

Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers has named Quarles & Brady's Rebecca Cameron Valcq chairwoman of the Public Service Commission.

Tagged with: Quarles & Brady Rebecca Cameron Valcq Tony Evers

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery on Friday to remove two malignant growths in her left lung, the Supreme Court said.

Tagged with: Ruth Bader Ginsburg U.S. Supreme Court

Investigators say a 61-year-old Wisconsin man was arrested for tearing down a neighbor's Christmas decorations while drunk and naked.

A Missouri judge denied Johnson & Johnson's bid to overturn a $4.7 billion jury verdict awarded to nearly two dozen women who said the company's talcum powder contributed to their ovarian cancer.