Concentration denied for most COVID-19 business-interruption lawsuits
Since COVID-19 struck, state and local governments have attempted to mitigate its spread by, among other things, suspending or restricting business operations.
‘Litigation nightmare’ could result from school-liability lawsuits
School districts, administrators and boards throughout Wisconsin are considering a variety of liability issues as they make decisions about how to start the 2020-21 school year with cases of COVID-19 on the rise.
COVID considerations for future construction contracts – Part 2
The arrival of COVID-19 caused abrupt changes to construction practices. In a matter of days, things went from business as usual to social distancing.
Return To Work: How do we safely re-occupy buildings?
Many businesses moved with alarming speed to transition their workforce out of their physical workplaces to remote locations housed in dens, kitchens and other not-so-traditional spaces.
Husch Blackwell wins award for legal innovation in operations
The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium has named a Husch Blackwell project designed to manage a portfolio of litigation as one of its inaugural Legal Innovation in Operations Project award winners.
Former von Briesen co-chair joins Husch Blackwell as partner
Jason Fathallah, a former insurance coverage co-chair at von Briesen & Roper, has joined Husch Blackwell's Milwaukee firm as a partner.
Husch Blackwell outlines COVID-19 effects on estate planning
A recently published white paper from Husch Blackwell's private-wealth team offers estate-planning guidance amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Husch Blackwell expands Madison health care team
Husch Blackwell has more than doubled its Wisconsin health care team, adding 12 attorneys and a paralegal to its Madison office in the first weeks of 2020. The new hires are the local result of the firm’s national strategy to expand its health-care practice.
Husch Blackwell adds 12 attorneys to Madison practice
Twelve attorneys have joined Husch Blackwell's health care, life sciences and education-industry team, the firm announced Monday. The attorneys come from Godfrey & Kahn and Reinhart.
Mitich helps developers with ins-and-outs of real estate incentives
To many people, nonprofit work might not seem to have much in common with Opportunity Zones and other sorts of federal development incentives.
Husch Blackwell partner leaves firm following battery reprimand
Jeff McIntyre, once a partner at Husch Blackwell’s office in Wisconsin, has left the firm following allegations that he punched a man in the nose outside an apartment on Christmas Day 2017 and drove while intoxicated.
WHO’S DOING WHAT: Hupy and Abraham celebrates 50th anniversary; GRGB honored for ALS work
Hupy and Abraham celebrated it 50th anniversary with a gathering on April 15 at its office in downtown Milwaukee.
Legal News
- Judge bars media cameras in slayings case, but the court will livestream
- $2 million awarded by Federal jury for MPD excessive force, officers’ failure to intervene
- Wisconsin Attorney General joins multistate Amicus Brief to uphold laws restricting gun magazine capacity
- Lawyer with ties to Brookfield, Wis. sentenced to four Years in Federal Prison
- Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at age 93
- Gov. Evers appoints Toni L. Young to the Racine County Circuit Court
- Gov. Evers appoints Frank Gagliardi to the Kenosha County Circuit Court
- Unions in Wisconsin sue to reverse collective bargaining restrictions on teachers, others
- Courtroom outbursts justified exclusion of mother from parental rights trial
- OSHA fines two Wisconsin construction companies after Lambeau Field carpenter’s death
- Vehicle wanted in Chicago homicide crashes into Milwaukee school bus during police pursuit
- Court to weigh social media and First Amendment
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