Fifty-two counts of alleged misconduct are pending against attorney Bridget Boyle-Saxton.

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It took a decade for the country’s first access to justice commission to figure out what problems it wanted to solve.

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Madison attorney Steve Levine is asking state justices to review and reject a measure granting the State Bar’s Board of Governors power to remove a BOG member from office.

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A Shorewood labor attorney twice suspended because of several crimes she committed while addicted to opiates said she has emerged from a “low point” in her life, and wants to practice law again.

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Money is running out for the Access to Justice Commission, a Wisconsin Supreme Court-mandated group tasked with advocating for legal services for indigent people.

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A West Allis debt collection lawyer facing criminal charges for misappropriating more than $780,000 from clients is suspended from practicing law in Wisconsin.

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The latest attempt to help those who are unfairly persecuted because of a wrongful arrest is drawing the ire of First Amendment advocates who say the measure would deny much of the public easy access to records.

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Wisconsin's two U.S. senators are forwarding three candidates to the White House to fill the open federal judicial seat in the Western District.

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Nationally known legal technology expert Ross Kodner, of Cross Plains, died Tuesday from a heart attack. Kodner was 52 and had just celebrated his birthday Sunday.

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Former Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Linda Clifford had a target on her back from the early days of her 2007 campaign.

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At its meeting June 12 at the Marriott West in Madison, the State Bar’s Board of Governors took a number of breathtaking steps which you had to witness to fully understand.

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In an attempt to make the Wisconsin Supreme Court more nonpartisan, the Wisconsin State Bar is in the early stages of a potential push to limit state justices to single, 16-year terms.

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The State Bar of Wisconsin has a new president.

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A Green Bay lawyer has been named president-elect of the State Bar of Wisconsin.

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Wisconsin lawyers spend 37 percent of their time on work that goes unbilled, according to a national survey.

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Dolores Bomrad admits she fell into family law.

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Chuck Hanson, after nearly 40 years as an attorney, says he measures himself not by his legal accomplishments but by his work outside the office.

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A couple of Wisconsin personal injury lawyers had the chutzpah to use the last names of rival attorneys for keyword advertising on the Internet.

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Students from a dozen Wisconsin high schools are set to converge on the Dane County courthouse next week for the State Bar's annual mock trial competition semifinals.

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Bob Gagan’s path to Calewarts, Duffy & Gagan in Green Bay was not typical.

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The two candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court plan to debate March 22.

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The State Bar of Wisconsin held its Breakfast & Business: Eggs, Ethics & Answers on Jan. 16 in Janesville.

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From where she started – moving more often than not around the inner city of Milwaukee, even spending time in a shelter – Anique Ruiz never expected to end up an e-discovery attorney and law student mentor.

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Christopher Rogers wasn’t going to get into the family business.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court entered a default judgment Tuesday against attorney Evan Read, the latest sanction against the Milwaukee lawyer since his license was temporarily suspended in 2010.

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As a new attorney, Jim Friedman heard colleagues’ stories about Charles L. Goldberg, a Marquette University Law School alumnus who went on to head the State Bar of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Bar and Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.

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Quarles & Brady LLP announced Andrew Beilfuss, Thomas Krumenacher and Kerry Moskol were elected to partnership and Matthew Vanderpool joined the firm’s Milwaukee office as an associate.

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There’s a potential ethical threat lurking in electronic documents.

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Iowa County Circuit Judge William Dyke is 82, but has no plans to step down from the bench and said he is disappointed when he sees aging colleagues do so.

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Illinois attorney Tommy Payne received a six-month disciplinary suspension Tuesday from the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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