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Corporate legal departments leading the digital charge

When Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. decided to retool the way it organized important documents, it was the company’s legal, not information technology, department that led the charge.

LEGAL CENTS: Five ways to save with litigation management

Glendale attorney Paul Junius is a professional defendant and penny-pincher.

Etiquette drives success when responding to requests for proposals

Remember that unit in law school about legal writing for requests for proposals?

Sentencing – Drug quantity

10-1613, 10-1616 & 10-1757 U.S. v. Alvarado-Tizoc

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2011 Leaders in the Law

Hon. Lynn S. Adelman United States District Court . . . David F. Andres McCoy & Hofbauer . . . Michael M. Berzowski Weiss Berzowski Brady . . . Richard J. Bliss Godfrey & Kahn . . . Stuart R. Deardorff Simpson & Deardorff . . . Robin E. Dorman Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Office […]

Lydia J. Chartre

Never underestimate the power of a wise mentor. Lydia J. Chartre was convinced she’d use her law degree in the corporate/transactional world. Then, while clerking at Petrie & Stocking SC, she met Daniel J. Miske, who urged her to consider litigation. Suddenly she changed her mind. Once she joined the firm as an associate, Miske […]

Anthony D. Cotton

Daniel Braznell was accused of salacious charges — the sexual assault of a 70-year-old, disabled woman — and therefore the media paid close attention to the case. In June 2010, a Waukesha County jury found Braznell not guilty. It was an exciting victory for defense lawyer Anthony D. Cotton, of Kuchler & Cotton Law Offices […]

Lindsey R. King

Lindsey R. King’s four favorite words in the English language might just be “No probable cause found.” King frequently represents employers facing discrimination charges before the Equal Rights Division. Happily, she’s read those words often in the two years she’s been with Petrie & Stocking SC in Milwaukee. “It’s one piece of paper with very […]

Samuel K. Hamilton

When Sam Hamilton was working as an aide in the Ohio Legislature right after college, he saw something that pushed him toward law school. “I noticed the people who were lawyers had more credibility,” Hamilton said of the lawmakers and employees in the Legislature. But when he got to law school at Ohio State University, […]

Cindy L. Fryda

Cindy L. Fryda doesn’t like being called a “management-side” labor and employment attorney. For starters, Fryda, of The Schroeder Group SC in Waukesha, represents both employees and employers, and she concentrates in general small business law as well. But also: “The way I look at it, being management-oriented is a benefit to employees. Because the […]

Andrea J. Farrell

What do Charlize Theron, Carrie Underwood and attorney Andrea J. Farrell have in common? They’re all animal lovers and PETA supporters. But while the first two have made headlines primarily as entertainers, Farrell has caught the media’s attention for groundbreaking animal-rights litigation in Wisconsin. Farrell is representing PETA and the Alliance for Animals against the […]