Bond was revoked and the defendant was remanded into the custody of the sheriff pending sentencing. A scheduling conference via zoom will be held on May 1 at 1 p.m. to schedule sentencing.

The trial began Monday, April 24, for former Burnett County Assistant District Attorney Daniel P. Steffen.

There are frequent reminders for lawyers in Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs and articles on the importance of civility among adversaries. Civility, like all good lessons, should flow from the top down, as children learn from their parents. In law, that means civility starts with the judges and court commissioners.

A judicial oversight commission has dismissed a complaint against a liberal-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who accused an attorney for former President Donald Trump of making racist contentions and trying to protect his "king" in a case challenging the 2020 election results in the battleground state.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has revoked a law license from a former Milwaukee County juvenile court judge who had pleaded guilty to federal charges of transmitting child pornography.

A rare complaint to the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility based on sexual misconduct has resulted in a stipulation for settlement and an expedited Minnesota Supreme Court hearing.

A criminal-defense attorney is losing his law license after threatening to use former criminal defendants to cause harm to an ex-girlfriend, physically assaulting her, making hundreds of unwanted phone calls to her and threatening to send harmful information to her employer, among other things.

A lawyer with admission to practice in Wisconsin and Iowa received a one-year suspension of his Wisconsin license, despite being inactive but in good standing.

A lawyer with admission to practice in Minnesota and Wisconsin must wait until June to seek re-instation of his law license.

An independent New Richmond lawyer with a lengthy disciplinary history will see his law license suspended for 60 days for mishandling clients’ fees and failing to communicate properly.

For about the last thirty years, my side job has been to serve as retained counsel, first for BAPR, then for OLR.

Keith Sellen, the first and so far only director of Wisconsin’s Office of Lawyer Regulation, is feeling mixed emotions as he prepares for retirement in August.

A Milwaukee criminal-defense attorney could lose his law license for two years as a result of his felony convictions for stalking and threatening an ex-girlfriend.

Timothy Samuelson, a U.S. assistant attorney and former Dane County circuit court judge, has been appointed as the new director of the Office of Lawyer Regulation.

A Winnebago County circuit court judge has been suspended from office for seven days after making inappropriate comments during several hearings and showing his handgun in the courtroom.

A Winnebago County attorney could see her law license suspended for the third time in four years.

A Winnebago County judge will soon find out if he'll be suspended for making inappropriate comments during several hearings and displaying his handgun in court on two occasions.

A UW Law School graduate who was charged for transporting 114 pounds of marijuana to Wisconsin will be able to practice law in the state.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has revoked the law license of a western Wisconsin attorney with a "considerable" disciplinary history, writing that the legal profession has "no place" for his unethical behavior.

A Kenosha attorney found responsible for converting more than $173,000 of his former firm's client funds can practice law once again.

A Watertown attorney could have her law license suspended for failing to use a settlement to pay a client’s dental bills.

An attorney's Wisconsin law license has been suspended for 60 days as reciprocal discipline for his disbarment in Minnesota.

A Rock County attorney is suing the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation and one of its referees for disability discrimination.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended the law license of the former Waushara County district attorney. Laura Waite was appointed as the Waushara County district attorney in April 2020. After a months-long, unexplained absence from the district attorney’s office, a judge found her to be absent in August and appointed a special administrative prosecutor to fill the role. In ...

A former Jackson County prosecutor accused of posting bond for women in exchange for sexual favors will lose his law license for two years.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has disciplined a Milwaukee lawyer for a sixth time for attorney-ethics violations.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to announce punishment this week for a Milwaukee attorney accused of ignoring two of his clients.

From calling a defendant an addict to making sexist remarks about a clerk, U.S. judges made — and were punished for — some outrageous comments in 2020.

A Milwaukee immigration attorney could lose his law license for a year for failing to properly represent two clients and taking a money out of another client's account for a personal loan.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended a Fox Valley attorney's law license for 90 days after finding him guilty of keeping a payment meant for an investigator and not cooperating with the Office of Lawyer Regulation.