The Crime Report

JUNE 4, 2021

The appeals court agreed with Kizer’s lawyers, who argued “any offense” did indeed mean “any offense.” If Kizer and her attorneys can prove to a judge that there is “some evidence” her crime was a “direct result” of her trafficking, then she will probably go before a jury.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A Wisconsin lawyer can’t use bankruptcy to avoid an order to pay the costs of an ethics proceeding against him, a federal appeals court ruled…

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MyCase

MARCH 3, 2021

With that sudden and unexpected transition to remote work, lawyers began to increasingly rely on cloud-based technologies in order to ensure that they could continue to represent their clients no matter where they happened to be working on any given day. ” Secure and Encrypted Communication.

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JURIST

MAY 2, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Friday ruled that required bar dues for lawyers in Wisconsin are constitutional. Attorney Schuyler File sued the State Bar of Wisconsin over compulsory association membership and fees, arguing that the payments violate his First Amendment rights to free speech and freedom of association.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As the demographics of those seeking to practice law changed, the requirements for becoming a full-fledged lawyer got more difficult. For decades, most students automatically became lawyers upon graduation from law school. Today only one state (Wisconsin) allows graduates to practice law without taking a bar exam.

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2021

Sixteen Texas lawyers, including four former State Bar of Texas presidents, have filed a complaint urging bar regulators to suspend or permanently disbar Texas Attorney General Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. Texas AG Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. from practice.

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Above The Law

MAY 25, 2023

The post It Takes A Skilled Lawyer To Negotiate From Community Service Up To Jail Time appeared first on Above the Law. Talk about No Church For The Wild.

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Law 360

MAY 10, 2023

A Season 3 storyline from “Succession,” featuring an outside counsel's ham-handed missteps, provides ethics lessons for white collar defense lawyers, especially in light of the U.S. Department of Justice’s recent corporate enforcement policy shifts, says Megan McDermott at the University of Wisconsin.

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LegalReader

MARCH 2, 2022

If they do not reconsider their initial decision, your lawyer will start preparing a lawsuit accusing the company of unfair practices. .

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JonathanTurley

MAY 14, 2021

There is a new controversy over university speech codes with a “ red light ” rating given to the University of Wisconsin (Oshkosh) and its prohibition of “insulting” or “demeaning” comments, including insulting someone over their political view. The Wisconsin (Oshkosh) speech code invites such arbitrary enforcement.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 15, 2022

Catherine Tang (@attorneycat) is a business and trademark lawyer licensed in California and Wisconsin. He is also a sought-after trainer and presenter for lawyers who seek to integrate Macs and iPads into their practice. Related reading: “ Lawyer Tech Tips: Collaboration Tools.”).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

If a person has a substantial estate or owns a business, not having a trust could cause delayed support and create negative tax consequences.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Ginni Thomas Emailed Wisconsin Lawmakers Urging Them To Ignore The Results Of The 2020 Election: On top of all the other shenanigans she pulled. Pay For A Law Degree, Don't Become A Lawyer: Something doesn't add up here. New Discrimination Lawsuit At UMich Law: The complaint is an awful lot.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Wisconsin law allows children as young as 10 years old to be charged as adults for certain violent crimes. The 10-year-old boy is currently being tried as an adult for first-degree reckless homicide in the shooting death of his mother.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 6, 2023

You know, the sort of medical tragedy that definitely needs more lawyers, judges, and briefing. Slate ] * Wisconsin's radical anti-union law could soon meet its match. [ Reuters ] * While Joshua Wright files more ill-advised lawsuits , the judge tossed his first $108M suit until he can allege some actually defamatory statements.

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Above The Law

JULY 22, 2022

Hit Me With Your Best Shot : Defendant punches lawyer. Toxic : Wisconsin forever chemicals. It's a weird list of schools. Life Is A Highway : Slaughter & May partner must take safety course after killing pedestrian. He's In The Jailhouse Now : Maybe not yet but Steve Bannon's been convicted. That sounds scary.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Investigators concluded that Pete Hill’s patterns of sexual harassment were “well-known” on campus, and that he had sexually harassed and assaulted both students and employees over the course of his employment.

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LegalReader

JUNE 6, 2022

Filing Chapter 13 bankruptcy is a big decision. You are committing to a bankruptcy repayment plan that could last for up to five years.

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ABA Journal

JULY 29, 2021

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected a request for a hearing in a new-trial bid by Steven Avery, whose case was portrayed in…

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2022

Following the 2020 general election, Powell brought election challenges in Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin. This violated Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 , which prohibits lawyers from filing frivolous lawsuits. The complaint, which was filed on March 1, was released to the public on Tuesday.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Tamara Loertscher arrived at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Aug. The Taylor County Department of Human Services had issued a request for temporary physical custody under Wisconsin Act 292, dubbed the Unborn Child Protection Act. 1, 2014 despondent. Severe hypothyroidism fueled her anguish.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 10, 2023

the lawsuit alleges that the lawyer was quite diligent about filing motions for fees. [ Reuters ] * A Wisconsin police department refuses to divulge the name of officers who shoot people citing victim's rights laws and arguing that if they shot someone they must have felt threatened and therefore are the real victims.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 16, 2021

While legal professionals have been slower to embrace this technology, AI for lawyers is a growing field. Here are five legal fields where AI can bring considerable benefits to lawyers and their clients. AI in sentencing is an area of contention for many, but criminal lawyers can use AI in other, less controversial areas.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When they threatened to report this individual, all of these female workers were summarily fired.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Last week, a young man in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, struck a deal in court acknowledging both his youth and his mistakes related to three local misdemeanor hit-and-run cases he was accused of at 17 and 18 years old, pleading guilty to one in exchange for a lighter probationary sentence, Bryan Polcyn reports for FOX6 Milwaukee.

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LegalTalkNetwork

OCTOBER 14, 2020

ONE: If the real world is taking its toll, voting rights lawyer turned novelist Steven Wright has an escape route. He and Rawles talk about his journey to creative writing, teaching his University of Wisconsin Law School classes remotely, and his plans for a TV series based on his book.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2021

Lawyers for the Trump campaign chiefly argued that there had been illegal underaged, unregistered, and deceased individuals voting in Georgia and that the final vote tallies had therefore been illegally inflated.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2021

Lucille Taylor, a lawyer from Michigan, challenged the state bar membership mandate on the grounds that it violates her freedom of association. Lathrop involved a similar freedom association challenge concerning mandatory Bar membership in the state of Wisconsin while Keller dealt with free speech. Donohue and Keller v.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Trellis has now added coverage for courts in Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. The company was launched in 2018 by Nicole Clark , a lawyer who initially began collecting data on judges for her own use while a litigation associate in Los Angeles. Last year, it raised $14.1

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LegalReader

JANUARY 11, 2022

The world of academia can have many bureaucratic challenges. Sexual harassment knows no limits in these types of settings.

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The Paralegal Society

AUGUST 1, 2017

By: Jamie Collins I’m sure you’ve seen that tech CEO from Wisconsin in the news proclaiming his proud plans to … Continue reading →

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LawSites

MAY 3, 2022

Paladin’s platform is used by law firms, legal departments and other legal entities to enable their lawyers to find and sign up for pro bono opportunities and to track their pro bono work. It is also used by legal services organizations to publicize pro bono opportunities and recruit lawyers to fill them.

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ALPS

MAY 3, 2022

And as we all know, if you’ve met one lawyer, you’ve met one lawyer and we’re all on our individual journey as human beings, right? He’s been in the past a director at large of the National Client Protection Organization, and as a liaison to the Wisconsin Task Force on Lawyer well-being.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Milwaukee jail, which had few cells set aside for women in need, has been under court supervision since 2001 due to repeated findings of inadequate healthcare; the sheriff’s office did not reply to five interview requests and a lawyer representing the county declined comment.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Other honorees will be Hawai’i Supreme Court Justice Sabrina McKenna and Wisconsin U.S. On February 20, the American Bar Association’s Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity will honor Supreme Court Justice Martin Jenkins with one of its three Stonewall Awards. Senator Tammy Baldwin.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The pandemic has raised a number of ethical issues for lawyers and resulted in the issuance of several ethics opinions addressing those issues. In addition, lawyers working remotely must consider the security and confidentiality of their procedures and systems. New York County Lawyers Association Formal Opinion 754-2020 (Aug.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Four states – Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – urged the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon to reject Texas’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Georgia , Michigan , Pennsylvania and Wisconsin filed four separate briefs, but common themes emerged among all four.

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