Members of the Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association gather Wednesday at The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee for its 13th annual meeting and awards presentation.

The Rules of Professional Conduct don’t require pro bono service, but they strongly recommend it. Fifty hours per year, to be exact.

Wisconsin Supreme Court justices expressed concern Friday that a rules petition pertaining to limited-scope representation would allow judges to keep attorneys on cases far longer than the attorney had agreed.

Kimberly Walker, who was ousted as Milwaukee County corporation counsel in 2013, will serve as the new executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee Inc.

The state’s civil courts are the realm of the rich, those who can afford as many lawyers as they need.

John Ebbott is stepping down from his role leading Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc., but his passion for equal representation remains strong.

The longtime executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee Inc. is retiring in September.

A movement is underway to create a new class of nonlawyer legal practitioners, meant primarily to provide services to the poor.

State Sen. Glenn Grothman leaves no room for interpretation when summarizing the state’s stance on handouts for civil legal service.

Logic doesn’t often prevail in the politics versus social services debate.

As cost concerns loom over a proposal to expand civil appointments in state, members of the judiciary this week also began to question how such appointments would be divvied up without a plan for how to assign cases.