Supreme Court holds public hearings for client protection fund fee increase, judicial code updates
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is considering petitions to increase to the annual assessment for the Wisconsin Lawyer's Fund for Client Protection and update the state's Code of Judicial Conduct.
Judicial ethics code applies to social networking, ABA panel says
Judges must follow the ethics rules governing social relationships and contacts when engaged in electronic social networking, an American Bar Association committee has made clear in a new ethics opinion.
Commission to consider judges’ recall signatures
The Wisconsin Judicial Commission could decide Friday whether to take any action against 29 state circuit court judges who signed petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker.
State’s high court to consider treatment court rules
Treatment court judges serve as both enforcers of the law and collaborators with defendants; a unique dichotomy that can test ethical boundaries.
29 judges sign Walker recall petition
More than two dozen Wisconsin judges from 16 counties were among the tens of thousands of people who signed petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker, according to a newspaper analysis.
Commission files complaint over choking incident (UPDATE)
The Wisconsin Judicial Commission filed a formal complaint Friday against Justice David Prosser over his physical encounter with fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley last June.
Legal News
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
- Wisconsin prison inmate pleads not guilty to killing cellmate
- Waukesha man sentenced to 30 years for Sex Trafficking
- 12-year-old shot in Milwaukee Wednesday with ‘serious injuries’
- Milwaukee man convicted of laundering proceeds of business email compromise fraud schemes
- Giuliani, Meadows among 18 indicted in Arizona fake electors case
- Some State Bar diversity participants walk away from program
- Wisconsin court issues arrest warrant ‘in error’ for Minocqua Brewing owner
- Iranian nationals charged cyber campaign targeting U.S. Companies
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