December 5, 2017
12:40 pm
A Beloit attorney facing a two-month license suspension is admitting to allegations of misconduct but contending that she does not need to pay restitution to clients. The Office of Lawyer Regulation filed a complaint in September charging Suzanne Kitto with five ...
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December 4, 2017
9:26 am
A Kenosha attorney is denying allegations that he committed nine counts of misconduct.
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December 1, 2017
12:32 pm
A Madison lawyer facing allegations of converting money belonging to her former employer is admitting to those allegations. The Office of Lawyer Regulation filed a complaint in June charging Amie Trupke with breaking two rules of attorney conduct while she ...
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November 30, 2017
11:16 am
A Green Bay lawyer has lawyered up and is denying allegations that he committed 28 counts of misconduct. The Office of Lawyer Regulation filed a complaint in September against Cole White of White Law Offices, alleging that White had violated ...
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November 30, 2017
11:12 am
An East Troy lawyer facing a 60-day suspension over six charges of misconduct wants the Wisconsin Supreme Court to dismiss the charges and instead suggested that lawyer-regulators investigate a lawyer a client had hired to replace him. The allegations stem ...
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November 29, 2017
12:20 pm
A Madison attorney who is also the mayor of Fitchburg is challenging a recommendation that he be publicly reprimanded. The Office of Lawyer Regulation filed charges last year against Jason Gonzalez, who was then an alderman. The OLR alleged Gonzalez ...
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November 28, 2017
12:38 pm
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended the license of a Milwaukee lawyer who failed to respond to dozens of allegations of misconduct.
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November 28, 2017
10:10 am
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded a former Green Bay attorney, but also took to task the referee who presided over the disciplinary proceedings.
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November 22, 2017
2:19 pm
The Office of Lawyer Regulation will be taking time in April and September next year to give seminars on managing trust accounts.
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November 21, 2017
1:00 pm
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is sending a Plymouth attorney’s disciplinary case back to a referee. The Office of Lawyer Regulation last year charged Daniel Rostollan with 21 counts of misconduct involving three clients. The Office of Lawyer Regulation alleged that ...
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November 21, 2017
12:40 pm
A referee has agreed that a personal-injury attorney from Oshkosh should pay the majority of the nearly $17,000 spent on his disciplinary proceedings. The OLR filed charges in 2015 against George Curtis, alleging seven counts of misconduct. Some of the ...
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November 20, 2017
2:03 pm
A suspended Waukesha County lawyer accused of embezzlement and forgery appeared for the second time in court on Monday. The Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office charged Matthew MacLean, of Hartland, in October with one count of embezzlement of more than ...
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November 17, 2017
1:04 pm
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended the license of a Madison attorney who, among other things, was criminally convicted for bringing an inmate pepper and toothbrushes.
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November 14, 2017
1:32 pm
A referee is recommending that a Madison lawyer pay more than $12,000 for his disciplinary proceeding.
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November 10, 2017
1:35 pm
An ex-Milwaukee lawyer who spent time in jail after embezzling money from his law firm will be presenting evidence at a coming hearing as he argues that his license to practice law should be reinstated. The Wisconsin Supreme Court revoked ...
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November 8, 2017
11:26 am
A suspended Waukesha County lawyer appeared in court Friday, facing felony charges for misappropriating money from his former employer.
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November 7, 2017
1:02 pm
A referee is recommending that a Madison attorney who is also mayor of Fitchburg be publicly reprimanded over some but not all of the counts of misconduct that have been alleged by lawyer-regulators.
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November 3, 2017
2:21 pm
A Madison lawyer is appealing a referee’s recommendation that he be found guilty of breaking attorney-ethics rules 19 times and that his license be suspended for a year.
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October 27, 2017
11:57 am
The parties in a lawyer-discipline case will have a chance to persuade a referee over whether a Walworth County lawyer should have to pay back the heirs of a client.
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October 25, 2017
12:40 pm
A referee is recommending that an Appleton attorney pay for the all the costs the OLR spent pursuing his disciplinary case.
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October 24, 2017
10:40 am
A former Dane County lawyer who now runs a construction company is challenging a recommendation that his law license be indefinitely suspended.
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October 23, 2017
5:38 am
An Appleton attorney could be on the hook for the more than $800 the OLR spent on his disciplinary case.
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October 23, 2017
5:32 am
The Office of Lawyer Regulation is recommending that an Oshkosh personal-injury attorney pay three-fourths of the agency’s costs in prosecuting him for misconduct.
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October 12, 2017
12:45 pm
An ex-Milwaukee lawyer who spent time after in jail after embezzling money from his law firm will be presenting evidence at an upcoming hearing that his license to practice law should be reinstated.
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October 11, 2017
4:04 pm
A Green Bay lawyer is facing a 15-month license suspension for allegedly breaking 28 ethics rules.
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October 11, 2017
10:46 am
A referee is recommending that a lawyer from East Troy not only be suspended for improperly benefiting from a will she drafted for a client, but also that she pay back the thousands of dollars she had received upon that client’s death.
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October 4, 2017
1:52 pm
Fewer lawyers were disciplined in the state's most recent fiscal year and grievances were less common than in the year before, even as the allegations that state regulators were most likely to hear about continued to involve attorneys practicing family and criminal law.
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October 4, 2017
11:48 am
A Beloit attorney faces a two-month license suspension over allegations that she had used money in her trust account to pay her real estate taxes and office rent.
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October 3, 2017
9:29 am
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended the license of a Racine attorney for six months – tripling the discipline a referee had recommended. Tuesday’s discipline stems from a complaint filed last year alleging that Robert Baratki had committed nine counts ...
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October 2, 2017
9:26 am
A referee is recommending that some misconduct charges against an Oshkosh attorney be dismissed and that the disciplinary measures imposed on him should be less than lawyer-regulators had sought.
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