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...
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Three Pines Bach LLP attorneys presented at the Wisconsin State Bar Health, Labor & Employment Law Institute
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...
Police adopt improved lineup practices to avoid false IDs
Human memory is a complex phenomenon. It does not act like a tape recorder, laying out events exactly as they occurred, but rather is a series of impressions guided by emotions, expectations and biases. Moreover, research dating as far back as the 1930s has shown that...
Westerberg & Dumas Win University Case in Wisconsin Court of Appeals
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...
Welsh Scores a Victory for Medicaid Providers
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...
Pines Bach LLP Attorneys Named to 2017 Pro Bono Honor Society
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...
Crawford Elected Dane County Judge
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...
Westerberg Pens Op-Ed for The Wisconsin State Journal
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...
Pines Bach LLP Mourns the Death of Cheryl Rosen Weston, Founding Partner
Cheryl Rosen Weston, one of the founders of , died on March 23rd. Cheryl became a lawyer in 1971 and helped found the firm in 1979. She was one of the "new wave" of women who entered law school and the practice of law in the late 1960's and...
Dumas & Pines Settle Civil Rights Claim against State Rep. Kooyenga
Attorneys and Lester Pines settled a civil rights claim against Wisconsin State Representative, Dale Kooyenga, with the State of Wisconsin paying $30,000 in damages for Kooyenga's theft of a sign with a proper permit that had been displayed in the rotunda of the...