A Green Bay attorney who threatened violence against an OLR investigator and a client lost his law license for four years.
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Read More »A Green Bay attorney who threatened violence against an OLR investigator and a client lost his law license for four years.
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Read More »The Office of Lawyer Regulation is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to revoke an Ozaukee County attorney's law license for 48 counts of alleged misconduct.
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Read More »Contested judicial races and disciplinary actions against attorneys made the Wisconsin Law Journal's list of most-read stories in 2020.
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Read More »A Wausau lawyer's third disciplinary action is coming in the form of a public reprimand and more than $26,000 in costs.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court publicly reprimanded a Milwaukee attorney for paying two witnesses against her client. Ann T. Bowe, a Milwaukee solo practitioner, stipulated to two charges of misconduct related to her handling of a 2016 Dodge County homicide case. She was representing ...
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Read More »A Fox Valley attorney will lose his law license for four years after being convicted of sexually assaulting a woman and running from the police.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court is suspending an Ozaukee County attorney's law license for two years, citing his "callous disregard" of an opposing party's rights and a circuit court's orders.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated the law license of a Madison lawyer suspended for mishandling nearly $377,000 in client funds.
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Read More »The Office of Lawyer Regulation is requesting a private reprimand for a Rock County attorney who's accused of four counts of misconduct.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court is weighing the appropriate punishment for a Wausau lawyer accused of mishandling his clients' money.
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Read More »The Brookfield lawyer Nathan E. DeLadurantey stands accused by state regulators of sexually harassing a former colleague at his law firm.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has slapped a Florida patent lawyer with a three-year law license suspension as reciprocal discipline for previous misconduct.
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Read More »A Milwaukee lawyer's fifth disciplinary action resulted in a 60-day law-license suspension and him having to pay more than $19,300 in costs of the proceeding.
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Read More »A New York lawyer has lost his Wisconsin law license for three months for not paying his taxes.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court's decision to publicly reprimand an Eau Claire lawyer includes a warning about the consequences of future misconduct, should he face professional discipline again.
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Read More »A Chicago lawyer will lose his Wisconsin law license for six months as reciprocal discipline for a drunken-driving crash that killed his friend.
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Read More »A Virginia lawyer disciplined for sharing confidential information about a nonprofit group under government investigation is receiving reciprocal punishment in Wisconsin.
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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »A Mequon attorney accused of "blowing off" two of his clients could lose his law license for 60 days.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court won't allow a disbarred Florida attorney to practice law in Wisconsin.
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Read More »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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