Two law firms have filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin against Volkswagen over the recent discovery that the company had tampered with emissions testing equipment on its diesel vehicles.

In the eight years since the state enacted a cap on the amount of damages a plaintiff can collect in a medical malpractice case, a Milwaukee judge's decision to award an amputee $15.75 million more than the damages cap is the exception to the rule, the woman's attorney said Monday.

Kerkman & Dunn, also known as Kerkman Dunn Sweet DeMarb, Madison, announced it will be splitting its two offices in Milwaukee and Madison into standalone law firms effective Oct. 20.

During oral arguments Thursday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court pressed to find the line where liability begins and ends if someone is hurt by a dog bite.

It only took three weeks for the personal injury law mass mailers to find Tricia Nell after she was in a car accident with an uninsured motorist.

Federal wage and hour lawsuits have been on the upswing in Wisconsin and nationally for several years, aided in part by increased public awareness, union changes and the ease of which cases are proven.

Wausau attorney Brenda Sunby remembers being so terrified of being called on in one particular law school class that she used to dig her fingernails into her hands until they bled.

Shortly after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge Friday, Daniel Rottier said his recent battle with cancer had led to drinking and possibly his attack on his wife with a cane earlier this month.

The president of Habush Habush & Rottier SC is expected to enter a plea Friday for allegedly hitting his wife with a cane while he was drunk.

The six largest settlements reported to Wisconsin Law Journal in 2013.

Oral arguments are just around the corner in the eagerly awaited case of Ronald E. Belding Jr. v. Deeanna L. Demoulin, 2012 AP 829, which will determine whether drivers can stack together auto insurance policies to increase coverage if they were injured from 2009 to 2011 by an uninsured or underinsured motorist.

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

Joel Aziere of Buelow Vetter Buikema Olson & Vliet LLC, Waukesha, was appointed president of the firm.

Lawyers must abide by ethical rules in all areas of their practice — including how they market themselves online.

Patricia Hutter, a partner at Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, was appointed to the Wisconsin Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth's Board of Directors.

The Dane County Bar Association presented three awards for outstanding pro bono work during a Law Day celebration May 1.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has voted to accept three new cases, including one that involves a recent candidate for the bench, but will not review a dispute between two Milwaukee personal injury firms.

Attorney Mark Young lost his wife to inflammatory breast cancer, but that experience helped him find an organization through which he honors her memory.

A couple of Wisconsin personal injury lawyers had the chutzpah to use the last names of rival attorneys for keyword advertising on the Internet.

A couple of enterprising Wisconsin lawyers set it up so that a link to their firm’s website would appear whenever a prospective client entered their competitors’ last names in Internet search engines.

A Milwaukee-area personal injury law firm that paid to use the names of a competing firm in Internet search engines to promote its own link did not violate privacy laws, a Wisconsin appeals court ruled Thursday.

Peterson, Johnson & Murray SC moved to the 788 Building at 788 N. Jefferson, Milwaukee. The Milwaukee-based firm has more than 60 employees in its downtown office. It also has offices in Madison, Manitowoc, Kenosha and Chicago.

Foley & Lardner LLP, Milwaukee, joined The Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce as its first Gold Founding Member.

Christopher Rogers wasn’t going to get into the family business.

A group of 150 families has sued Buckeye Partners LP, Houston, and West Shore Pipeline Cos., Arlington Heights, Ill., due to groundwater contamination at their Washington County homes resulting from a gas pipeline rupture in July. Additional families have expressed interest in joining the suit, according to a news release, and related entities were also named as defendants.

Lindsey Davis, James Goldschmidt and Leila Sahar joined Quarles & Brady LLP’s Milwaukee office.

More than 90 families in the town of Jackson have signed on to a planned lawsuit over a pipeline spill.

Like father like daughter? Sort of, but not exactly.

During law school, Milwaukee attorney Tim Trecek struggled to sit through classes on the theory of law. But when he took a course on Advanced Trial Practice, he said, he found his calling.

Edward Vopal, a shareholder at Habush Habush & Rottier SC's Green Bay office, was elected president of the Wisconsin Association for Justice at the organization's annual meeting Saturday.