In any political race, there are always keywords that candidates go back to again and again.

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According to a survey by the National Association for Law Placement, recent law school grads who get the coveted big law jobs aren't making as much as they did a few years ago.

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It looks like Ryan Braun's former friend isn't giving up in his litigious quest against his former Milwaukee Brewers friend and the attorneys who represented him. To me, though, it's just another quirky part of a rare example of jail being imposed in a contempt proceeding.

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Forgive, me, please, but I think I have a case of report fatigue.

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Maybe I wasn't reading as many tweets about prior same-sex marriage decisions, but I don't remember seeing nearly as many memorable quotes as I did Thursday.

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I felt like Henry Fonda from "12 Angry Men." Except a boy's life wasn’t on the line -- just a few thousand dollars and the dignity of a soon-to-be ex-husband who lost his wife to another man.

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Another day, another judge who criticizes and sanctions Rodney Rigsby for his litigious nature.

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One thing became abundantly clear during Tuesday afternoon’s debate between the Democratic state attorney general candidates: if you don’t know who you’re voting for by this point, there’s not much the candidates can do for you.

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We’re still several months away from any major state Supreme Court election activity, but recent campaign finance reports reveal who continues to plug away during the offseason.

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Trials in Florida were never boring, but there weren’t that many surprises, either.

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At least two state Supreme Court justices continue to show concern about the application of a newly-passed rule designed to give judges a roadmap on how to deal with pro se litigants in court.

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A U.S. Supreme Court decision slated to be released Monday could have implications for the Wisconsin State Bar, but it all depends on the breadth of the justice’s ruling.

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The longest preliminary hearing occurred in Outagamie County in September 1987. It took six weeks.

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The State Bar is starting a bit early in its attempts to get more money for the courts system in the next year’s budget.

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It seems like Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson and Justice David Prosser had a lot more on their minds Friday than just the facts of the four Office of Lawyer Regulation cases for which they released opinions.

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Serial pro se litigant Rodney Rigsby is still at it.

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The State Bar is spending $51,000 to bring Robert Gibbs and Karl Rove to its 2014 Annual Meeting & Conference next month.

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The State Bar spent $219,603.25 on lobbying in 2013. They spent 5,452 hours advocating for their many positions, firmly putting them near the top of the heap in terms of time spent.

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Nathan Schilz is walking a fine line by putting Jeffrey Dahmer at the center of a musical.

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Rep. Dale Kooyenga said he is going to get the money owed to Robert Stinson one way or another, even if it means putting it in next year’s budget.

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I didn’t think Pussy Riot even knew that Wisconsin existed. I guess I was wrong.

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One of the attorneys representing a group of Racine bar owners who are suing city officials for alleged racial discrimination said the suit started with one person and grew from there.

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It seems like the State Bar may be a little hurt over questions the Supreme Court asked them during a hearing Jan. 21 about a petition that seeks the ability to boot a member of the Board of Governors.

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With the latest bill addressing the removal of information from CCAP popping up this week, I thought it was worth reviewing a few of the other bills introduced in the past few months that sought to address the exact same problem, yet have gone nowhere.

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A Madison man wants a federal judge to fire a judge and pay him $1 million to compensate him for a denied name change petition.

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So you think Wisconsin is the only state whose Supreme Court elections are seeing an influx of special interest money?

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I don’t know why Court of Appeals decisions that describe journalistic tactics taken by TV stations amuse me. But they do, and I found another one.

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I guess I thought it would be a bigger deal if attorneys, witnesses and jurors in the same case went to eat in the same place. But I was wrong.

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Sometimes, it’s pretty easy to sense frustration in an appeal.

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The Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission’s new report says many interesting things about the state’s civil legal system.

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