State Bar’s limits on financial transparency create budgetary blind spots
To practice in Wisconsin, lawyers are required to pay $224 a year in State Bar dues, but that doesn’t buy them a meaningful look into how bar leaders spend the money.
Wisconsin lawyer ‘too busy’ for client, forfeits $2K retainer
Among the worst things to say to a client, “I’m too busy for you” certainly ranks right up there. One Wisconsin lawyer has learned that rather elementary lesson the hard way.
Former State Bar president plans push for financial transparency (UPDATE)
The lack of financial transparency within the State Bar of Wisconsin has already prompted one member of the organization’s Finance Committee to resign. Now past Bar president Doug Kammer said he may approach the state Supreme Court about what he called a lack of accountability by the Bar for its financial decisions. During his term […]
Klein elected as State Bar president
For the third time in the last four years, the State Bar of Wisconsin elected another president-elect who supports a voluntary bar. Phillips attorney Kevin Klein won the election for president-elect, defeating Janesville lawyer Jim Carney, a mandatory bar supporter, by about 500 votes. Klein will serve in that post for one year beginning July […]
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