The State Bar of Wisconsin is working to help lawyers with both personal and professional difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

For the first time in a decade, the State Bar of Wisconsin’s next president will be a woman.

This year’s race to take the top leadership spot for Wisconsin lawyers pits a public-interest lawyer against a solo practitioner, both of whom work out of Milwaukee. The Wisconsin State Bar announced in December that Jill Kastner and Randall Nash had accepted nominations to run for the office. Nash is a civil litigator who earned his law degree from the University ...

The Wisconsin State Bar has posted a statement on its website in support of the judiciary in response to President Donald Trump’s Feb. 4 tweet calling the federal judge who temporarily blocked his immigration executive orders a “so-called judge.” State Bar President Fran Deisinger asked the governors at Friday’s Board of Governors meeting to approve the statement, noting that other state ...