Enku Edgar Lin realized he was pursuing the right practice area while interning as a 2L with the State Public Defender’s Office in the Milwaukee Trial Division.

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Jacob Manian prosecuted nearly 40 felony trials before joining Fox, O’Neill & Shannon SC, Milwaukee, in 2012.

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Nicholas DiUlio bypassed the typical career search-and-discovery phase in high school because he knew exactly how he wanted to collect a paycheck.

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Growing up reading John Grisham novels, Brittany Lopez Naleid was inspired that legal work “seemed so interesting and important.”

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It’s not every day an attorney gets the opportunity to work on a headline-making deal. But that’s what Jason Kohout had the chance to do recently while working with a team of Foley & Lardner LLP attorneys on the $550 million sale of the Milwaukee Bucks.

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Sarah Fowles was working to raise money for New York University in 2001 and sharing an office with a public defender displaced by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks when she realized she was in the wrong profession.

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Kelly Noyes makes her living in the margins.

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Like most kids, Allison Cimpl-Wiemer played house, but she also played “trial.”

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After spending his undergraduate days as a competitive swimmer, Larry Johnson dove into the deep end of employee representation when he started his law career eight years ago.

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After graduating from college with a bachelor’s degree in political science, April Hartman was unsure what to do with her life.

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Benjamin Imhoff is following through on his theory that becoming a patent law attorney, rather than someone who works in a lab, is the best way to keep up on evolving technology.

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Finding the right mentors has been crucial to Carina Garcia’s success.

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Homicides in Milwaukee were down in 2011 but the number of nonfatal shootings increased over the year before.

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A sham lawsuit is upending the last remaining leased tenants of the Loyalty Building in downtown Milwaukee, a longtime restaurant owner says.

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An Irish couple filed suit against Mo’s Irish Pub on Wednesday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, alleging negligence on the part of downtown Milwaukee franchise.

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One of the reasons Milwaukee law firm von Briesen & Roper SC considered moving after more than 25 years, was because its building prominently featured a competitor’s logo. But now the firm, which has leased space in the building at ...

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Marquette University’s Sensenbrenner Hall used to be crammed with eager law students, hustling up and down the four flights of stairs to attend classes. But for the past year, the building has sat quiet and mostly empty on the corner ...

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By CARRIE ANTLFINGER Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors have decided not to charge several Marquette University athletes accused of sexual assault because the school failed to notify police of the alleged incidents, a district attorney said Thursday. In a ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors say a Milwaukee man who threatened to shoot himself in the head instead shot and killed his younger brother when the brother tried to intervene. Thirty-three-year-old Patrick Weeks was charged Thursday with first-degree reckless homicide. The ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Authorities have now charged a 19-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a teenager on Milwaukee’s near north side. The complaint alleges Jivonte Jones lured 18-year-old Oscar Vega to the house on the pretense of selling a ...

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By DINESH RAMDE Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee girl accused of stabbing and killing her step-grandfather at age 13 for pouring her milk down the drain admitted to the charge Tuesday, offering the juvenile equivalent of a guilty ...

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I was in Madison one day last week. Those of you who enjoy my work will be happy to know that I was not burned at the stake for heresy. Instead, I had a lovely time.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee County judge has ruled the state’s concealed carry statute unconstitutional as applied to a man who had an unloaded, encased gun under a car seat after he had been robbed. Circuit Judge J.D. Watts said ...

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In Milwaukee's Drug Court system, defense attorneys have the ability to represent clients enrolled in the program and also serve as members of the collaborative treatment court team.

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A prominent Wisconsin construction company wants to know why it was deemed unqualified to perform restoration work on the Kenosha County Courthouse.

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