When Katrina Hull decided last year to sign her practice group at Michael Best & Friedrich up for an applied-improv workshop, her goal was simple.

The Office of Lawyer Regulation will be giving two seminars about trust accounts next year.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide whether to take up a proposal to expand what options attorneys have to complete their continuing legal education requirements.

The Board of Bar Examiners is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to expand lawyers’ options for fulfilling their continuing legal education requirements.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has released the final language of rule changes that would allow licensed attorneys in the state to earn continuing legal education credit for pro bono legal work.

Those diplomas on your wall constitute a point of pride, and they should. But if you hope to achieve an advanced degree of success — not just an advanced degree — you must not see them as an end to your education.

Sometimes Andrea Gage will catch a class during her lunch hour. Other times, it’s from the comfort of her couch.

I’m going to pass on the State Bar of Wisconsin’s “Ultimate Pass” for continuing legal education.

Every public figure risks being misquoted, and often those misquotes attain a reality all of their own.

One of the most successful and pervasive small-business sectors is one many people (often including those who are in it) don’t even think of as a business: the single-practitioner law firm.

A Shorewood labor attorney twice suspended because of several crimes she committed while addicted to opiates said she has emerged from a “low point” in her life, and wants to practice law again.

It has become conventional wisdom in this country that small businesses are the real engine of economic growth and job creation.

A suspended Milwaukee bankruptcy attorney who deemed himself “The Light Hero” in advertisements was ordered by a federal judge Tuesday to pay thousands of dollars for defrauding multiple clients in the poorest areas of Milwaukee.

One of the delights of attending a bar association meeting is seeing new places.

It’s no secret that law school does little to prepare young lawyers for practice realities in any size law firm. And now it has become increasingly clear that reality is catching up to law schools.

When the next matter lands on your contact’s desk, what is the chance that he will pick up the phone and call you, rather than your competitor?

The 1968 capital murder trial of Black Panther Huey Newton. The Charles Lindbergh kidnapping case. Both are cases that stick out in public memory and both offer lessons to be learned about trial work.

Attorneys can profit in many ways from service on the boards of nonprofit organizations.

Embattled Elm Grove lawyer Mark Phillips was publicly reprimanded Thursday by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the third professional-discipline sanction against the attorney since 2006.

As national Pro Bono Week approaches, Legal Action of Wisconsin’s Volunteer Lawyers Project announced it will again offer lawyers free training on pro bono issues.

It seems that since email revolutionized lawyer-client communications in the 1990s, technology CLE speakers have been advocating for encryption, yet no one’s doing it.

After a seven-year hiatus, John Chavez can practice law again in Wisconsin.

Baseball players who jump from team to team often are labeled journeymen to emphasize their nomadic tendencies.

An attorney convicted of misdemeanor theft in California has lost his Wisconsin law license for 60 days.

Milwaukee attorney John Loew received a public reprimand from the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday for two counts of professional misconduct, including failure to notify a client of suspension.

Sixteen years after agreeing to a permanent revocation of his law license, Madison attorney Stanley Woodard has returned to practice.

Defending lawyers accused of professional misconduct isn’t glamorous, but Milwaukee attorney Richard Cayo, of Halling Cayo SC, said he loves it anyway.

Years ago, the daily mail delivery was a major event in our firm.

The prospect of paying to practice law after age 70 is something emeritus lawyers in Wisconsin are willing to accept, so long as they are not mandated to take continuing legal education.

While attorneys could pay $35 more per year to remain members of the State Bar of Wisconsin starting in Fiscal Year 2014, the price of continuing legal education through the bar may increase much sooner.