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Gov. Scott Walker has tapped the Watertown city attorney to fill a vacancy on the Jefferson County Circuit Court bench.
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Gov. Scott Walker has appointed a Beloit attorney to the Rock County Circuit Court bench.
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Read More »Wisconsin Law Journal honors its 2018 Women in the Law
The Wisconsin Law Journal honored 23 outstanding women lawyers Thursday night during its annual Women in the Law event at Discovery World in Milwaukee.
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Read More »Wisconsin fugitive surrenders after more than 2 weeks on run
A Wisconsin man has surrendered to authorities after being on the run for more than two weeks.
Read More »Former UW student sentenced to 3 years for assaults
A judge on Thursday sentenced a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student to three years in prison for sexually assaulting three female students and choking or stalking two others.
Read More »SCOTUS: ALJ not properly appointed
The Supreme Court on Thursday wiped away a $300,000 fine and other sanctions against a financial adviser known for his "Buckets of Money" retirement strategy. The court said the administrative law judge who ruled against Raymond Lucia of California was not properly appointed to his job by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Read More »Kalmer helps clients with multi-employer plans, ACA
The saying “timing is everything” could have been originally written about Stacie Kalmer and the way she ended up with a successful employee benefits practice at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren.
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Read More »High Court: Online shoppers can be forced to pay sales tax
The Supreme Court says states can force online shoppers to pay sales tax.
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Read More »Schimel: School grants could be used for gun training
Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel isn't ruling out using school safety grants to cover firearm training for teachers.
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Read More »Poll: Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls still mostly unknown
Most voters still don't know what to think about anyone in the crowd of Democrats running for governor as the August primary rapidly approaches, a poll released Wednesday shows.
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Read More »Trump’s immigration order sparks confusion, deep concern
President Donald Trump's reversal of a policy separating migrant families at the Mexico border sparked confusion over how the new guidelines will play out and deep concern that the changes don't go far enough, allowing children to still be held in detention even if they remain with their families.
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Read More »Schimel: School grants could be used for gun training
Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel isn't ruling out using school-safety grants to pay for firearms training for teachers.
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Read More »Dassey asks high court to take his case (UPDATE)
A teenager whose case was documented in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" wants the Supreme Court to hear his case.
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Read More »Appeals court affirms UW-Oshkosh professor records release
A state appeals court says the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh must release records related to a misconduct investigation involving a business professor.
Read More »Court: Judge can’t drug defendant to make him competent
The state Supreme Court says a judge improperly ordered the state to medicate a convict until he was competent to help his attorney with his appeal.
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Read More »Firms showing signs of recovery in years following recession
When the economy tanked in the late 2000s and early 2010s, even large law firms in Milwaukee, far away from New York, felt the effect.
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Read More »Parents of ex-UW-Madison student ask for redemption
The parents of a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student asked a judge on Tuesday to give their son a chance at redemption when he is sentenced for a string of alleged assaults around campus.
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Read More »Drunken driver convicted in deaths of mother, daughter
A man accused of driving drunk and killing a mother and daughter walking along a road in Brown County has been convicted.
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Read More »Man awarded $18.4 million in lawsuit over canceled HIV test
A federal jury has awarded $18.4 million in damages to a man who said in a lawsuit that two doctors failed to test him for HIV, which allowed the virus to progress to AIDS.
Read More »Bicyclist killed in Waukesha County was pediatrician
Authorities have identified the bicyclist killed in Waukesha County as a pediatrician, husband and father of three.
Read More »Arizona man sentenced to prison for cyberattack in Wisconsin
An Arizona man has been sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for his hacking conviction in a cyberattack three years ago that interrupted communications equipment for emergency workers in Madison.
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Read More »High court suspends Beloit attorney’s license
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a Beloit attorney’s license for 60 days.
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Read More »Sterling Brown of Bucks sues Milwaukee over stun-gun arrest
Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown sued the city of Milwaukee and its police department Tuesday, saying officers' use of a stun gun during his arrest for a parking violation constitutes excessive force and that they targeted him because he is black.
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Read More »Court: City doesn’t owe billboard company after overpass construction blocks sign
The state Supreme Court says the city of Madison doesn't owe a billboard company anything after the construction of alocal overpass blocked the company's sign.
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Read More »High court grants Door County judge’s rule-change request
A Door County judge has won the Wisconsin Supreme Court's consent to request for a rule change concerning the appointment of a vice chairman to the Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee.
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Read More »Walker announces plan to name building after Vel Phillips
Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday that the future Milwaukee State Office Building will be named after the late Vel Phillips.
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Read More »Case challenging Wisconsin’s ‘cocaine mom’ law is dismissed
A three-judge federal appeals panel dismissed a lawsuit Monday that challenged Wisconsin's so-called "cocaine mom" law, saying the case is moot because the woman who brought the action has moved out of state.
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Read More »High court decision extends legal battle over gerrymandering
Democrats hoped a Wisconsin case would be the vehicle the U.S. Supreme Court would use to strike down the highly partisan gerrymandering of electoral maps.
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Read More »Pedestrian killed, driver arrested in Milwaukee
Milwaukee police have arrested the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed a pedestrian.
Read More »Gun by her side, GOP US Senate candidate talks of threats (VIDEO)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With a holstered handgun next to her on a kitchen table, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir promises in her first television ad of the campaign released Monday to stand with President Donald Trump just as ...
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