Dana Wachs of Gingras, Thomsen, & Wachs has been appointed to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.

An Eau Claire lawyer and state lawmaker who spent several months campaigning for governor is back at work.

A panel of lawmakers made up partly of personal-injury lawyers from both sides of the political aisle will be hearing public testimony Thursday on a bill calling for various changes to the state’s civil litigation rules.

A Democratic legislator and personal-injury lawyer from Eau Claire announced on Monday that he'll challenge Republican Gov. Scott Walker next year.

The number of attorneys serving in the Legislature is slated to bottom out again as new lawmakers prepare to be sworn in early next year.

In compromising on and even killing some proposed changes to the state’s tort laws, supporters say they have furnished proof they are not mindless puppets controlled by outside interest groups. But plans already are afoot to resurrect some of the tort proposals that did not make it through the Legislature this session.

The Assembly passed a bill Thursday that would up the interest rate on judgments in small claims cases to 12 percent.

A bill that would allow crime victims to view portions of defendant’s presentence investigation reports was passed by the Assembly’s judiciary committee Tuesday morning.

Two Wisconsin tort reform proposals received approvals from a legislative judiciary committee Thursday and one more or less died.

Doctors would not be required to give patients as much information about alternative treatments available to them under a Republican-sponsored bill on a fast track in the Legislature.