Ruder Ware's Matt Rowe has joined the board of directors for the Milwaukee-based Badger Institute.

Ruder Ware has added attorneys Mykayla Dado and Ruth Ross to its team.

The National Elder Law Foundation recently certified Ruder Ware Attorney Aric Burch as a Certified Elder Law Attorney -- one of 12 in the state of Wisconsin.

Ruder Ware has added Andrew Lorenz to its Eau Claire attorney team. Lorenz will expand his litigation practice as a member of the firm and join its business group. He represents companies and individuals in business-transactional matters, having an emphasis on real-estate development, leasing, land use, mergers and acquisitions and business-entity formation. Before joining Ruder Ware, Lorenz was a clerk for ...

Matthew D. Rowe will succeed Stewart L. Etten as the president of Ruder Ware.

When the economy tanked in the late 2000s and early 2010s, even large law firms in Milwaukee, far away from New York, felt the effect.

Michael Gonring, director of the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee and formerly a partner at Quarles & Brady, is the 2018 recipient of the John H. Pickering Award of Achievement.

Quarles & Brady recently announced that one of its attorneys will lead the board of a nonprofit company that operates New York state’s power grid.

von Briesen & Roper's Randy Nelson has been appointed to the Business Planning Committee of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel for 2017-2018. The Business Planning Committee focuses on planning techniques for owners of closely held businesses.

Ashley Hawley had a life-changing event when she was 17 years old ... and it eventually led her to a legal career.

von Briesen & Roper has opened a Waukesha office at 20975 Swenson Drive, Suite 400. It marks von Briesen’s eighth office in Wisconsin.

Clifford & Raihala senior partner Keith Clifford has been named president-elect of the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Ruder Ware's Steve Anderson freely admits that being a litigator allows his competitive nature to come out.

Gov. Scott Walker has appointed a former partner and shareholder at Ruder Ware to the state's Department of Financial Institutions, which regulates the financial industry.

Running a business is challenging enough, but throw in legal issues and the headaches can mount.

The Association for Women Lawyers has announced its new Board of Directors.

Sara Ackermann drills down what she does every day into three words: sex, drugs and drama.

Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren has announced that Francis Deisinger, the firm's General Counsel and a shareholder in its Litigation Practice, has been elected as the next president-elect of the State Bar of Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court sets the rules governing when and how judges can accept gifts.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reversed a Court of Appeals case that lets legal malpractice insurance providers in the state go on with business as usual and keep premiums for legal malpractice insurance the same.

Madison-based Stafford Rosenbaum LLP has named Susan Allen as a partner.

Milwaukee attorney Jeffrey Jensen has more than 25 years of experience in criminal defense, but he would put his fate in another lawyer’s hands rather than defend himself.

Mark Kmiecik joined Davis & Kuelthau SC’s trusts, estates and succession planning team, as well as its tax team in metro-Milwaukee. Kmiecik earned his master's of law degree in taxation from Northwestern University School of Law and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.

A Monroe attorney who did not cooperate with an attorney discipline investigation violated the rules, but the violation was so minimal that it doesn’t require discipline, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

They ought to be common sense — those pleasantries and courtesies that make interactions with clients and colleagues so much more civil and productive.

An Eau Claire criminal defense attorney who sent a letter to a judge containing information normally protected by attorney-client privilege did not violate any ethical rules, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

A public hearing Monday over whether to make public certain investigations into alleged attorney misconduct dredged up concerns state justices have about the attorney discipline system.

Eric Farnsworth received the Robert L. Habush Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from the Wisconsin Association for Justice at its annual dinner in Milwaukee.

Mario Mendoza and William Morgan were named shareholders at Murphy Desmond SC, Madison.

Eager to find ways to improve the state’s process of disciplining attorneys, Wisconsin justices recently discussed the possibility of allowing plea agreements in Office of Lawyer Regulation proceedings.