The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a Green Bay attorney’s license for six months over misconduct that includes attempting to transfer money out of his firm’s trust account while in jail and advertising his legal services even though his license had been suspended.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended the license of a lawyer who has been banned from practicing law in two other jurisdictions.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court plans to release decisions this week in two lawyer-discipline cases.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded a Whitewater attorney for mishandling money held in trust for a client, among other misdeeds.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court is giving a former Sheboygan lawyer a chance to voluntarily surrender his law license before deciding whether to discipline him for alleged misconduct.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated the license of a northern Wisconsin attorney who was suspended last year for using trust-account money to pay for personal expenses.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended an attorney for misconduct in his home state.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has revoked the license of an attorney for misconduct in Illinois.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to release decisions in two attorney-discipline cases stemming from misconduct in two neighboring states.
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Read More »A court-appointed referee is saying that a former lawyer who had practiced in the Sheboygan area should pay for his disciplinary proceedings before the state Supreme Court.
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Read More »A referee is recommending that the Wisconsin Supreme Court dismiss a disciplinary case against an Eau Claire lawyer.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended an Appleton patent attorney’s license for keeping thousands in unearned fees.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a Milwaukee attorney’s license for a year and a half.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to release decisions in the disciplinary cases of a Milwaukee attorney and an Appleton patent attorney.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has dismissed charges against an attorney who failed to report that he had been disciplined in Maine.
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Read More »An East Troy lawyer is facing a 60-day suspension over allegations that he broke six rules of attorney conduct.
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Read More »An attorney faces the revocation of his Wisconsin law license after his license in Massachusetts was suspended indefinitely.
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Read More »An attorney known for defending the convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer again faces suspension of his law license over charges that include failing to produce bank-account records to investigators and failing to submit fee disputes to arbitration.
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A Madison lawyer is facing a 60-day suspension of her law license for alleged misconduct stemming from her representation of three clients.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has revoked a Madison lawyer’s license — at his request.
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Read More »A Fond du Lac attorney is fighting a recommendation that the Wisconsin Supreme Court publicly reprimand him over several charges of misconduct.
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Read More »A federal appeals court has ruled that a district court judge got it right when he refused to let a former La Crosse lawyer appeal a bankruptcy judge’s order to pay for his disciplinary hearing.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court will be weighing in on the disciplinary case of an Appleton lawyer charged with taking clients’ money without doing work and refusing to refund the money.
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A referee is recommending that a lawyer disbarred in Illinois for using client money to pay personal expenses should also be disciplined in Wisconsin.
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Read More »A Madison attorney who is also a Fitchburg alderman is fighting charges that he broke several rules of attorney conduct.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear three cases in March involving appeals in lawyer-discipline and workers’ compensation cases and a certified case involving contracts.
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Read More »A Madison attorney is challenging a referee’s recommendations that her license be suspended for a year and pay thousands in restitution for allegedly filing either frivolous or meritless cases in federal court.
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Read More »A Madison attorney is fighting a recommendation that the Wisconsin Supreme Court should suspend his license two times longer than what lawyer-regulation authorities had requested.
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Read More »A referee is recommending that the Wisconsin Supreme Court publicly reprimand a Fond du Lac attorney over 10 counts of alleged misconduct.
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Read More »A referee is recommending that a former Sheboygan attorney be privately reprimanded and given the chance to resign from the bar.
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