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A Milwaukee attorney embroiled in a court battle with his former law firm partner is denying allegations that he mishandled millions of dollars of his former firm’s money.

Tagged with: office of lawyer regulation OLR Robert Menard

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided not to reinstate the license of a former Elm Grove lawyer but will let him try again in six months.

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A Milwaukee trusts and estates lawyer has been sentenced to a year of probation for embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from a Dodge County woman’s estate.

Tagged with: Daniel Morse Dennis Coffey Hurley Burish & Stanton James Mohr Joseph Wall Mawicke & Goisman office of lawyer regulation OLR Peyton Engel

On May 11, a woman driving a Tesla Model S in Utah slammed into a stopped truck while going 60 miles per hour. She’d taken her hands off the wheel and was using the car’s adaptive braking and cruise control, which ...

Tagged with: autonomous vehicles Brian Jelinek John Riehl self-driving cars UW-Madison

A Department of Natural Resources attorney will decide whether the agency will honor a ruling that a Monroe County sand processing plant's wetlands permit is invalid.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a former Milwaukee lawyer’s second attempt to get his license reinstated.

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The owner of a Polk County law firm was one of 17 female business leaders recently recognized by Gov. Scott Walker.

Tagged with: Gionis & Murtaugh Law Office Kathleen Gionis

The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently denied in part a proposal to increase the compensation for certain appointed attorneys, but details on how the justices voted and why won’t be released until the court issues a final written order.

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Gov. Scott Walker appointed a new Department of Corrections secretary on Wednesday, the agency's third leader in less than three years as it struggles to recover from allegations of abuse at Wisconsin's youth prison.

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Five months after massive federal tax changes became law, many small business owners still don't know whether they'll be winners or losers.

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Gov. Scott Walker has appointed an Eau Claire solo practitioner to fill the top prosecutor spot in Barron County.

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A Florence County man is charged with killing the father of his ex-girlfriend.

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Gov. Scott Walker is suggesting he's open to lifting the statute of limitations on civil child sex abuse lawsuits.

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Gov. Scott Walker is signaling he's not interested in pursuing a six-week abortion ban.

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Madison police are asking for a homicide charge against a man accused in an apartment shooting that has now turned deadly.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has revoked a Colorado attorney’s license over conduct that got him disbarred in his home state.

Tagged with: office of lawyer regulation OLR Philip Kleinsmith

The Director of State Courts will be hosting court interpreter training next month.

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A concrete company can't dig up American Indian burial mounds located within its southern Wisconsin quarry, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday without any explanation.

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A Wisconsin man has been convicted of selling drugs that led to overdoses in the Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota area.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended the license of a Madison eminent-domain lawyer who a referee said used his trust account “akin to a slush fund.”

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A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point official who handled sexual misconduct complaints and resigned when he was accused of sexually harassing a woman on campus in 2015, went on to hold positions handling similar complaints at two other universities, according to newly released documents.

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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Oklahoma's plea to reinstate the murder conviction and death sentence of an American Indian.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a decision finding that employment agreements may contain clauses that prevent employees from banding together to sue their employer.

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Wisconsin taxpayers paid about $1,000 to send one of Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel's top lawyers to a Christian legal advocacy group's West Coast conference last summer even though Schimel himself considered his own appearance there a political or personal event.

Tagged with: Brad Schimel DOJ Kevin LeRoy

A Wisconsin district attorney's office is using a $100,000 federal grant under the Victims of Crime Act to provide protection to those who've suffered domestic abuse.

Tagged with: domestic abuse Ismael Ozanne

A Wauwatosa man who knew he was HIV-positive has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.

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A retired priest is accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting an altar boy when he served at a Fort Atkinson church beginning in 2006.

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A Wisconsin judge wasn't required to tell a man he would face a lifetime of GPS monitoring upon pleading guilty to child sex crimes because such monitoring is a public safety measure, not a form of punishment, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reaffirmed that criminal charges in adult court can be brought against defendants for activity that happened when they were juveniles.

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A shortage of correctional officers to work in Wisconsin's prisons cost taxpayers more than $42 million in overtime last year.

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