The Wisconsin State Bar has chosen a new executive director.

The Wisconsin State Bar Board of Governors will get one step closer to selecting a new leader.

The state’s Board of Governors got down to business last weekend by preparing to search for a new executive director of the State Bar, discussing possible legislative proposals and considering proposed Wisconsin Supreme Court rules changes.

The State Bar of Wisconsin is teaming up with a national legal recruiting firm in its search for a new executive director.

A group of lawyers and bar representatives is starting its search for candidates to replace the State Bar of Wisconsin’s top staff member.

The top employee at the State Bar of Wisconsin will be stepping down next June.

The top employee at the State Bar of Wisconsin will be stepping down next June.

The latest development in a long-festering dispute over mandatory dues finds the Wisconsin State Bar once again preparing to go to the arbitration table to fight off a challenge of its ability to collect money for purposes that members might object to.

Steven Kruzel joined Quarles & Brady LLP’s Milwaukee office as an associate in the labor and employment practice group.

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.

A closed-door discussion regarding the State Bar’s procedure to hire an outside attorney ended with no decision Saturday morning.

The State Bar’s Board of Governors is scheduled to hold a discussion in closed session concerning the bar’s decision to hire an attorney to represent the organization in front of the state Supreme Court.

Wisconsin attorneys will pay $30 more in dues per year if the State Bar’s Board of Governors passes its proposed budget during its meeting Friday and Saturday.

Serving as president of the State Bar of Wisconsin is like riding a Ferris wheel that goes around only once.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously struck down a State Bar bylaw Friday that would have allowed the Board of Governors to remove one of its own, with one justice saying the rule as written was “insane.”

A State Bar committee is set to consider more than $600,000 in claims stemming from former clients of Appleton attorney Steven Wilson, who died in June at age 57.

Wisconsin Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday about a State Bar bylaw that several said potentially could give the bar’s governing board broad power to remove a dissenter from office.

The State Bar of Wisconsin might have to defer payment on claims filed by people who have been wronged financially by attorneys.

It took a decade for the country’s first access to justice commission to figure out what problems it wanted to solve.

Money is running out for the Access to Justice Commission, a Wisconsin Supreme Court-mandated group tasked with advocating for legal services for indigent people.

Robert Kovach, chief of staff for state Sen. Frank Lasee, falls silent to consider the consequences of confusing wording in a major new landlord-tenant law.

The State Bar of Wisconsin taxes its members and then refuses to completely reveal how that money is spent.

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.

The State Bar of Wisconsin has withdrawn its federal trademark infringement lawsuit against LexisNexis.

In the face of a six-figure deficit, the State Bar of Wisconsin is juggling cutting costs with outreach efforts to its members statewide.

By Jack Zemlicka Wisconsin Law Journal The buffet of Continuing Legal Education known as the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Annual Convention is being replaced by a more refined menu. Declining attendance prompted bar leadership to abandon the traditional convention format and develop a handful of practice-specific “institutes” to be held in various locations throughout the year. “The convention as we ...