Firms expanding due to intellectual property growth
While many business-related practice areas took a hit during the recession, intellectual property has been a bright spot for local firms.
Entrepreneurs need counsel
Founding a company is tricky business — just ask college buddies Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, whose struggle for control of their creation, Facebook, was detailed in the popular 2010 film “The Social Network.”
Eight things to know about the new e-discovery rules
On Jan. 1, 2011, Wisconsin’s new civil procedure rules governing electronic discovery go into effect. Here’s eight things to know.
Who’s Doing What
Stafford Rosenbaum LLP, with offices in Madison and metro Milwaukee, announced that Anne Schacherl has joined the firm as Of Counsel. Schacherl’s practice focuses on estate planning and administration. Schacherl earned her law degree from University of Wisconsin Law School and she has been practicing law for more than 30 years. Prior to joining Stafford […]
Playing the market
Wisconsin law firms that are considering relocating from their current office spaces have a rare opportunity to benefit from a bad economy.
ACC program aims to improve relationships between in-house, outside counsel
Much like a marriage, the relationship between in-house and outside counsel becomes strained when communication breaks down and there are no shared goals.
Andrew P. Beilfuss
Andrew P. Beilfuss applied to law school after a few years as a business consultant because he “was always interested in the chess match that I thought trial work would be.”
Legal Marketing Professional of the Year
When it comes to the Association for Women Lawyers, Dana Kader Robb is a jack-of-all-trades. And the AWL board’s nomination indicates she has mastered them all. Kader Robb’s multi-facetted role includes marketing and communications, teaching legal marketing to members, administration of the organization, maintaining the member database, light financial services, serving on AWL’s communicatio[...]
Lifetime Achievement Award Winner – Ed Thompson
Ed Thompson Facilities Manager, Quarles & Brady LLP For more than four decades, Ed Thompson has given his all to Quarles & Brady. He started 41 years ago as a court runner, taking documents to the courthouse and filing them. He notes that was so long ago that Louis Quarles, one of the firm’s namesakes, […]
Legal News
- Chesebro among those charged with interfering in 2020 election
- Williams-Sonoma must pay almost $3.2 million for violating FTC’s ‘Made in USA’ order
- Harvey Weinstein due back in court, while a key witness weighs whether to testify at a retrial
- Protests erupt on college campuses throughout Midwest, and U.S. over war in Gaza
- Flight attendant indicted in attempt to record girl in airplane bathroom
- Wisconsin attorney loses law license, ordered to pay $16K fine
- Former Wisconsin police officer charged with 5 bestiality felony counts
- Judge reject’s Trump’s bid for a new trial in $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation case
- Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police
- The Latest: Supreme Court arguments conclude in Trump immunity case
- Net neutrality restored as FCC votes to regulate internet providers
- Wisconsin Attorney General asks Congress to expand reproductive health services
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