Amidst real allegations of child sex-abuse supported by eyewitnesses and found to be valid by a Pennsylvania jury in a criminal case last month, a federal judge in Wisconsin has…
In a 3-3 vote, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a rehearing in a recusal dispute involving one of its justices who received free legal help from a law firm.
Habush Habush & Rottier is one of Wisconsin’s top personal injury law firms. So partners weren’t pleased to find out that a small firm was free-riding on its reputation and…
A Wisconsin lawyer and a former client who is now his girlfriend were found guilty in federal court there on Wednesday of crimes related to her bankruptcy.
Testifying in his own defense on Tuesday before a referee in a disciplinary case, a former Wisconsin district attorney explained the answer to a self-posed question: “Why would somebody so…
A former Wisconsin district attorney who has said he already paid a steep price for his behavior is taking a plea in a legal ethics case brought over his claimed…
A former Wisconsin district attorney who made headlines due to his alleged sexually-charged treatment of several women in job-related situations is now facing eight legal ethics counts rather than the…
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David T. Prosser Jr. has asked two of his colleagues to recuse themselves from having any role in the ethics proceeding that is pending against him.
Saying that it was following the lead of another state, as it routinely does in reciprocal attorney discipline cases, a majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed brief…
Both the prosecutor and the defense lawyer in a contentious negligent homicide case have been hit with 30-day suspensions and required to pay a combined $63,000 to help cover the…
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