A Chicago lawyer will lose his Wisconsin law license for six months as reciprocal discipline for a drunken-driving crash that killed his friend.

Tagged with: Norman Maras office of lawyer regulation OLR Stacie Rosenzweig

It’s 11 a.m. on a due date and I’m procrastinating, staring at my phone instead of my computer. This past month has been a mess, between deadlines and family health issues and summer school, with weddings and day trips and a conference thrown in for good measure. A three-hour hearing turned into six yesterday in a windowless basement room, and my lower back is screaming at me for sitting in the same wobbly government-issue chair in the same position for too long. Still, a stupid phone game is what I’m capable of handling right now.

Tagged with: Halling & Cayo Stacie Rosenzweig

Should Wisconsin prosecutors be held to a higher ethical standard than their constitutional obligation to disclose evidence to criminal defendants?

Tagged with: Gregg Herman office of lawyer regulation OLR Richard Cayo Robert Zapf Sharon Riek Stacie Rosenzweig Wisconsin Supreme Court

Although lawyers can now take advantage of new rules allowing them to accept electronic payments, they might still want to enlist the help of professionals when balancing their books.

Tagged with: E-banking Halling & Cayo keith sellen OLR Stacie Rosenzweig

Civility, niceness, and more specifically incivility and meanness, are big news today.

Tagged with: Ethics Stacie Rosenzweig