2018 News

Senior Partner, Lester Pines, was one of five alumni of the University of Wisconsin Law School invited to give a "Law Talk" during the school's 150th Anniversary celebration.Lester spoke on "The Dangers of an Article V Constitutional...

Eight attorneys have been selected to the 2018 Wisconsin Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, a Thomson...

attorney Christa Westerberg authored a guest editorial entitled "AG Schimel's office working nationwide for private interests." The editorial, published by Madison's Capital Times, discusses recent legal filings by the Wisconsin Attorney...

Employee rights attorney Tamara Packard and her co-presenter, management-side attorney Brad Backer, will give a live webcast encore presentation of their continuing legal education session titled "Anatomy of a Noncompete Agreement." Tamara and Brad originally gave...

Last week, the State Bar of Wisconsin hosted its annual Health, Labor & Employment Law Institute, a legal education conference geared to presenting the latest developments and best practices to labor & employment practitioners and health law practitioners from...

Last week, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals affirmed a decision in favor of a student journalist at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh who sought records about a business professor subject to prior employment investigations.  The University agreed to release the records...

This week, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals held that the Department of Health Services was not entitled to recoup Medicaid payments made to a family planning clinic based on certain recordkeeping disputes. The Court found that the clinic was not required to keep...

Last month, the Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission named Attorneys and Christa Westerberg to its Pro Bono Honor Society for 2017. Each year, the Commission honors state lawyers who have helped to provide equal access to justice under the law by performing at least...

Congratulations to partner, Susan Crawford, who was elected on April 3 to be a Dane County Circuit Court judge. She will start her new position on August 1. Crawford is an outstanding attorney and wonderful colleague who has done...

The Wisconsin State Journal published an op-ed by partner, Christa Westerberg, entitled "Government Policies Put Public Health At Risk" which described numerous instances where local and state government agencies in Wisconsin have kept...