Ruder Ware’s Anderson gets a high when the gavel drops
Ruder Ware's Steve Anderson freely admits that being a litigator allows his competitive nature to come out.
Walker appoints former Ruder Ware partner to financial bureau
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.
Win-win: Murphy does his part to help business owners
Running a business is challenging enough, but throw in legal issues and the headaches can mount.
Who’s Doing What: AWL announces Board of Directors; new hires
The Association for Women Lawyers has announced its new Board of Directors.
Workers’ antics keep Ackermann busy
Sara Ackermann drills down what she does every day into three words: sex, drugs and drama.
Who’s Doing What: Reinhart’s Deisinger named State Bar president-elect
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.
Drawing the line on gifts
The Wisconsin Supreme Court sets the rules governing when and how judges can accept gifts.
State’s high court rules in favor of legal malpractice insurer
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.
Who’s Doing What: Allen named partner at Stafford Rosenbaum; attorneys named as shareholders
Madison-based Stafford Rosenbaum LLP has named Susan Allen as a partner.
More attorneys turning to colleagues for representation
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.
Who’s Doing What: Law librarians group hands out service award
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.
Justices deem attorney’s rule violation too minimal for discipline
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.
Legal News
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- 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
- Attorney General Kaul releases update at three-year anniversary of clergy and faith leader abuse initiative
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
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