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Tag Archives: Margaret Hickey

Wisconsin on brink of constitutional crisis as courts face unprecedented DA, public defender shortage

Editors Note: Our Managing Editor, Steve Schuster spoke to Judges, the Office of Lawyer Regulation, Federal Prosecutors, District Attorneys throughout the Midwest, the State Bar of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Attorney General, Governor Tony's Evers office, as well as legislatures to determine the full extent of the problem and possible solutions on how to fix Wisconsin's broken criminal justice system.

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State Bar’s Board looks at CLE cost bump

While attorneys could pay $35 more per year to remain members of the State Bar of Wisconsin starting in Fiscal Year 2014, the price of continuing legal education through the bar may increase much sooner.

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Klein elected as State Bar president

For the third time in the last four years, the State Bar of Wisconsin elected another president-elect who supports a voluntary bar. Phillips attorney Kevin Klein won the election for president-elect, defeating Janesville lawyer Jim Carney, a mandatory bar supporter, by about 500 votes. Klein will serve in that post for one year beginning July 1 and will then take ...

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