The hot legal practice areas for 2012
Despite sobering unemployment numbers across the country, employment for lawyers continues to be promising in the hottest practice areas.
Complaints rise over bankruptcy petition writers
Pro se bankruptcy filings are on the rise in eastern Wisconsin, prompting complaints that petition writers are stepping in where only attorneys are allowed to tread.
Bankruptcy filings fall for first time since abuse act of ’05
The number of bankruptcy cases filed in fiscal 2011, the 12-month period that ended in September, dropped 8 percent over the year before – the first decline since the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 took effect.
Anna Nicole Smith case continues to roil bankruptcy world
Anna Nicole Smith has created a potentially major problem for litigants in bankruptcy proceedings.
U.S. Courts: Bankruptcy filings continue to rise
Individual bankruptcy filings continue to rise, according to the latest annual report of bankruptcy statistics from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Retired Milwaukee archbishop to be deposed
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A U.S. bankruptcy court judge has ruled that retired Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland and former Bishop Richard Sklba will answer questions under oath about an alleged cover up of child sex abuse. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports bankruptcy Judge Susan V. Kelley ruled on Friday that the church officials will be deposed […]
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- New complaints filed against Northwestern over Kenosha football hazing scandal
- Justice Department submits proposed regulation to reschedule marijuana
- Reckless driving on Brown Deer Road results in fatal collision
- Lavinia Goodell 150th Anniversary commemoration to be held June 17
- WisGOP reacts to vice president’s Wisconsin visit
- Former prosecutor suspended for unwelcome contact during legal conference
- One Wisconsin Attorney’s misconduct ‘in a league of its own’
- Wisconsin election fraud charge issued from November 2022 general election
- Indigenous consultant accuses NHL’s Blackhawks of fraud, sexual harassment
- Man pleads guilty in theft of Arnold Palmer green jacket, other Masters memorabilia from Augusta
- KS Governor cites competition concerns while vetoing measure for school gun-detection technology
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