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Counsel can’t be reinstated
Front pay is proper remedy for discrimination It would violate public policy to order an employer to reinstate in-house counsel as a remedy for discrimination. The Wisconsin Supreme Court held July 21 that where the animosity between the attorney and her employer is so extreme, it would risk violation of the attorney’s ethical obligations to require […]
SPD Director Chiarkas to retire
After 22 years as head of the Wisconsin State Public Defender Office, attorney Nicholas L. Chiarkas is stepping down in January. He was tapped to lead the agency on Sept. 1, 1988 and his tenure marks the longest as Chief State Public Defender, not only in Wisconsin, but in the nation. Public Defender Board chairman […]
True-blue Americans read beatnik poetry, too
A Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that a 2007 raid of a medical malpractice fund was unconstitutional seemingly restricts the Legislature’s ability to clean out similar funds, but stopped short of declaring all such funds off-limits, sources said Monday under the condition that they remain anony[...]
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