A Milwaukee lawyer has agreed to give up her law license for six months after converting a client's settlement funds for personal use and committing other misconduct.

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A Chicago attorney will soon learn if he'll receive reciprocal discipline for a drunken-driving crash that killed his friend.

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Next week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will announce the punishment for a Milwaukee lawyer accused of keeping a $25,000 settlement secret from a client. The high court is scheduled to release its opinion in the Office of Lawyer Regulation’s case ...

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A northern Wisconsin lawyer lost his law license for taking nearly $150,000 from his clients, in what appears to be the final chapter in his lengthy disciplinary history.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has granted the Whitefish Bay attorney Theodore Mazza's petition for consensual license revocation, citing the need to establish the seriousness of his misconduct.

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The Whitefish Bay lawyer Theodore Mazza will soon find out if his law license will be revoked for a second time.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a western Wisconsin solo practitioner's law license for two years, citing a "clear pattern of neglect" in his response to his clients' needs.

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A former Madison attorney once deemed a "serious and ongoing threat" saw her law license suspended for two years on Tuesday in her third disciplinary action in Wisconsin.

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The top lawyer for Milwaukee County can practice again. Corporation Counsel Margaret Daun’s law license was suspended on June 16 after she had failed to meet the deadline for certifying she had completed 30 hours of required continuing-legal education in ...

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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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