Milwaukee County's top lawyer can't practice law at the moment because of a license suspension over a missed deadline by when she was supposed to show she had completed continuing legal-education requirements.

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A Mequon attorney accused of "blowing off" two of his clients could lose his law license for 60 days.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court won't allow a disbarred Florida attorney to practice law in Wisconsin.

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A Milwaukee attorney has received his second law-license suspension in less than one month, marking his fifth disciplinary action in the state.

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Retired Quarles & Brady partner James D. Friedman has been appointed as a referee for lawyer disciplinary matters.

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The Office of Lawyer Regulation is requesting a 60-day suspension as reciprocal discipline for an lawyer's disbarment in Minnesota.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended the law license of former Gov. Jim Doyle's chief legal counsel and deputy chief of staff for one year.

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A Mequon lawyer was arrested twice over the weekend for first spitting in a teenage protester's face and then kneeing a police officer in the groin when he tried to put her in handcuffs.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday conditionally reinstated a former attorney's law license about 17 years after it was revoked.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is suspending the Milwaukee attorney Diane Caspari's law license for keeping payments that should have gone to a doctor hired in two State Public Defender cases.

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The Milwaukee worker's compensation attorney Robert Menard is seeing his law license revoked for what has been described as "far-reaching deplorable conduct" tied to ongoing federal felony-theft lawsuits.

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A Milwaukee criminal-defense attorney will lose his law license for five months in his latest punishment from the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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Gov. Jim Doyle’s chief legal counsel and deputy chief of staff will soon learn if he’ll have his law license suspended for a second time because of misconduct. The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to release its decision in the ...

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A Milwaukee criminal-defense attorney hit with a series of attorney-ethics violations will learn of his latest punishment next week.

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A western Wisconsin attorney with a lengthy disciplinary history could lose his law license for good for his latest dozen counts of misconduct.

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A Milwaukee lawyer could lose her law license for six months for keeping a $25,000 insurance settlement secret from her client, among other misconduct violations.

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A Chicago attorney who lost his Illinois law license after a fatal drunken-driving crash may receive a reciprocal punishment in Wisconsin.

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A Florida attorney who was disbarred for misconduct is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to give him a chance to practice law in Wisconsin.

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A Milwaukee-area attorney's misconduct case turned on Wednesday into an argument about mandatory minimums for lawyer misconduct. The Wisconsin Supreme Court was split on the appropriate punishment for Robert Moodie, a former senior partner at Hippenmeyer, Reilly, Moodie & Blum in Waukesha.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has taken its seventh disciplinary action against a Walworth County attorney, suspending his law license for 60 days.

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A Walworth County lawyer is on his way to receiving his seventh disciplinary action from the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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A northern Wisconsin lawyer blamed 18 counts of misconduct on his opioid addiction, but a referee in the Office of Lawyer Regulation's case against him disagreed, saying the two matters are unrelated.

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A Stevens Point attorney will lose his law license for 60 days for fabricating a motion and disappearing on his clients.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide this week on punishment for two attorneys charged with misconduct.

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The law license of a prominent attorney at Milwaukee firm Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown has been suspended for 60 days because of misconduct in two divorce cases.

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A Milwaukee lawyer sentenced for stealing more than $301,000 from his clients will lose his law license for four-and-a-half years.

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A Tennessee attorney agreed to having her Wisconsin law license suspended indefinitely for medical incapacity.

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A Florida patent lawyer is faced with reciprocal discipline in Wisconsin for failing to speak and listen to the inventors he took on as clients.

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The Office of Lawyer Regulation is accusing a Fox Valley lawyer of keeping an entire payment from the State Public Defender's Office for himself, rather than splitting it with an investigator as he was supposed to.

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The Office of Lawyer Regulation is asking for reciprocal discipline for a New York attorney who was punished in his home state for not filing his taxes.

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