In the first few weeks of the outbreak, we were able to convert the vast majority of the mediations that were scheduled to either telephone or video mediations, both in Wisconsin and across the United States

Judges are often asked for their views on what works and what doesn’t in the courtroom. This also extends to their thoughts on what persuades them and what persuades juries, and what doesn’t.

Gov. Scott Walker has tapped the leader of the state’s parole commission and the legal counsel for a state regulatory agency to fill two spots on the Milwaukee County bench.

The Wisconsin State Bar Board of Governors voted Friday to support two proposals that would let lawyers fulfill more of their continuing legal-education courses online and let lawyers use time spent working for tribes to get waived into the state bar.

Should a company be held liable when it vacates a building and leaves behind dangerous conditions that later lead to a worker's injury?

A judge has upheld the firing of a white Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot a mentally ill black man in 2014.

The Court of Appeals has ruled that a Wisconsin resident cannot obtain long-arm jurisdiction over the Sydney Morning Herald without offending the Due Process Clause.

Officials from Wisconsin's trial courts encouraged the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to green light mandatory e-filing throughout the state.

Jim Leatzow has heard the names.

Defense attorneys and judges foresee little problem with filling a new probation program launched in Milwaukee County, though questions remain about how it will compare to regular probation.

A lawsuit over a $2.3 million street and landscaping project in Brown Deer might reach the Wisconsin Supreme Court even though construction is almost finished.

The state Court of Appeals is seeking Wisconsin Supreme Court review of a case involving DNA evidence that could clear a man who was sentenced to prison in 2000.

A case that began as a landlord-tenant dispute has erupted into a 12-year battle in the Milwaukee courts system with allegations of aggressive prosecution and evading a debt by any means necessary.

Patricia Hutter, a partner at Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, was appointed to the Wisconsin Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth's Board of Directors.

A state appeals court says a judge was wrong to block testimony from a woman who claims she witnessed the killing of a Milwaukee man.

Rather than just reading 19 pages of jury instructions to the people who would decide if Jesus Gonzalez was guilty of murder, Milwaukee Judge Richard Sankovitz mixed in some visuals.

Teri Jendusa Nicolai did not care about the judge’s gender when she sought a restraining order against her ex-husband in 2004.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge has sentenced a man to 12 years in prison for fatally shooting a teenage boy who broke into a Milwaukee scrap yard with his friends. Fifty-four-year-old David Helton also was sentenced to four years of extended supervision Tuesday. A jury in August found Helton guilty of second-degree reckless homicide while armed. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...