In my most recent column’s discussion of ghostwriting, my personal recommendation was in favor of counsel’s disclosure of an attorney’s brief-drafting for unrepresented parties. That recommendation remains unchanged.

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When an opposing party is pro se, I gird myself for his briefs. They’re typically long, disorganized, wandering and overwrought.

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Drafting a Statement of the Issues is not my favorite part of preparing a Wisconsin Court of Appeals brief or any brief, for that matter.

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Even when a brief technically conforms to the Court of Appeals’ briefing rules, unwary counsel still can be sandbagged by the decisional briefing rules.

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I admit it. When I’m drafting a Wisconsin Court of Appeals brief, all I think about is substance.

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Every legal specialty has its outliers -- those remedies or procedures that, because they are rarely available or appropriate, tend to shrink from the mind.

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James DeJong, president of the Milwaukee law firm O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong & Laing SC, Milwaukee, will be inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society during a ceremony at Carroll University in April.

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John Schellinger received the The Wisconsin Association of Legal Administrators’ 2013 Award of Excellence.

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Shannon Allen’s social side does not get in the way in the courtroom.

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It sounds so simple: If a judgment or order “disposes of the entire matter in litigation as to one or more of the parties” and is properly entered or recorded (Sec. 808.03(1), Stats.), it is “final,” and the appeal time starts ticking.

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Rachelle Hart was named senior vice president, general counsel for Aurora Health Care.

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Vitek & Probst SC is a new Milwaukee-based firm focused on family law in southeastern Wisconsin.

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Diane Slomowitz recently took a meditation class. Not long into it, she realized everyone except her had achieved a meditative state.

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