... it's time to nominate your favorite legal support staff for the Wisconsin Law Journal's Unsung Heroes award. From the Web site: Lawyers in Wisconsin do terrific work. But where would they be without the members of their support staff who, behind the scenes, quietly ... its third-annual event for our "Unsung Heroes" of the state's legal community. Please join us on November 14 at Milwaukee's Italian Community Center as we host the "Unsung Heroes" whose efforts are essential to helping law firms and ...
July 21, 2008 06:02 pm
A woman and her daughter have been awarded $18.2 million in a medical malpractice case due to a birth injury the daughter received 10 years ago reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The U.S. District Judge, Lynn S. Adelman, awarded the woman and her child $21 million in 2006 and the federal government has now agreed to pay $18.2 to avoid an appeal of the original suit. The woman sued the government because of the lack of care she was given at a federally funded medical clinic for the poor. The ...
July 18, 2008 08:46 pm

Birth Injury / Cerebral Palsy Medical Malpractice

(Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawyer Blog)
A Wisconsin court has approved an $18.2 million medical malpractice settlement from the government for a Milwaukee family whose daughter suffered severe brain damage during birth at a clinic. When the mother gave birth, ... involving permanent injuries to kids are some of the most difficult cases that Maryland and District of Columbia medical malpractice lawyers pursue because they usually involve multiple expert witnesses, such as obstetricians, pediatric neurologists, neonatologists, placental ...
July 18, 2008 12:49 am

Are school teachers overpaid?

(The FRAUDfiles Blog)
... interesting study on the pay of school teachers, and I think it's relevant because I've been discussing the high pay of the Milwaukee Public School teachers, but the low performance of the district. Take a look at this study: How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid? ... economists, 1% less. Compared with public school teachers, airplane pilots earn 186% more; physicians, 80% more; lawyers, 49% more; nuclear engineers, 17% more; actuaries, 9% more; and physicists, 3% more. Public school teachers ...
July 6, 2008 12:49 am
... here 07/02/2006 The 2006 attack involved as many as 20 men and boys over several hours MILWAUKEE - The last defendant sentenced in a group sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl was ordered Wednesday to serve five years ... is, during court proceedings I heard members of the perpetrators' families saying this kind of behavior is not uncommon," Torbenson said. The lawyer representing the girl's family declined an interview request. A number of women in the girl's neighborhood said the males involved ...
July 3, 2008 06:39 am
... 's trustees may use their discretion in distributing the money, and some lawyers say the statement may not mean much anyway, given that its directions were ... an expression of her wishes that is not necessarily legally binding," said William Josephson, a lawyer who was the chief of the Charities Bureau in the New York State attorney general's office ... school, founded by Snoop. 5. The world's biggest block party, with weiners by Milwaukee's own Usinger's. 6. Fireplace andirons for everybody! 7. Fund ...
July 2, 2008 05:48 am
... 4.9 percent to $10.00, but the companies were trading essentially flat later in the morning Jack McConnell, a lawyer for the state, would not immediately comment. Rhode Island was the first state to sue over the harms of lead paint, ... courts in New Jersey and Missouri last year rejected public nuisance lawsuits against the companies, while a jury in Milwaukee in November ruled in favor of NL Industries in a suit brought by the city. The court also overturned contempt sanctions and fines totaling ...
July 1, 2008 02:45 pm
... of the main reasons for the EPO refusal was that the method used a human embryo which was destroyed in the process. Justin Turner, the lawyer for WARF, told EPO's supreme judiciary body, the seven-member Enlarged Board of Appeal, "There are ... , one has the argument that "granting of patents drives investment away." Which is it, folks? For example, The Business Journal of Milwaukee reported: Three patents [of WARF] were challenged through re-examination proceedings initiated in October 2006 at the ...
June 25, 2008 04:33 am

UPS rats out FedEx

(The FRAUDfiles Blog)
... employment practices of FedEx Corp., leading to a finding that FedEx owed back taxes and interest. Kenneth Kies, a Washington tax lawyer and lobbyist whose firm has been paid $540,000 by UPS since 2002, sent Ohio officials a 562-page report in ... if the U.S. review results in an adverse ruling, said Jon Langenfeld, an analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co. in Milwaukee, in an interview last week. Copyright © 2008 Sequence Inc. All rights reserved. The use of this feed on other websites breaches ...
June 25, 2008 03:11 am

Just Cincinnati.

(What About Clients?)
... over-achievers, quite a few of them ending up at college with me. The then-wunderkind lawyer Jerry Springer and Ken Blackwell, both very unusual at the time, and with ... The Sixth Circuit, headquartered here, usually makes sense. Fine old-school lawyers, and a small but colorful "underground" which somehow survives. Great fine arts ... You behave. Like a Louisville friend and writer once said of Cincinnati and Milwaukee: "There is just no room for personal flashes of anarchy in the good German mind". ...
June 20, 2008 10:01 am
... ingested the tainted meat. The child, Brianna Kriefall, had eaten with her family at a Sizzler Restuarant in South Milwaukee, Wiconsin, sometime in 2000. Brianna didn't eat any of the tainted meat, but her lawyers argued she became sick after eating watermelon that had been tainted by the meat. The little girl died just a week after being exposed. Brianna's lawyers secured a $13.5 million dollar settlement from Sizzler's meat supplier, as well as other defendants.
June 17, 2008 07:11 am
... to fail to protect the American public, the Associated Press reports the settlement of a food-borne illness case from Milwaukee involving the death of a 3 year old girl from an e-coli related syndrome. The case involved exposure to ... it should not be held liable, accountable or responsible because it had complied with FDA regulations in handling the beef. The lawyer for the child's family described the case "as a study in perseverance." It is also a case study of how inadequate FDA regulation is ...
June 17, 2008 02:23 am
... the pastor of a Louisiana church and a New Orleans radio talk show host, spoke at a conference in Milwaukee hosted by Wisconsin Christians United, titled "International Conference on Homo-Fascism." Evidently, 'homo-fascism' refers to ... its findings, the court ruled that AW must be compensated for its cost of defending the lawsuit, as it was initiated as a frivolous action. A lawyer who brings a frivolous action -- an action that he or she knows cannot be won in court because it will be impossible ...
June 6, 2008 08:00 pm

Developments In The IRS Estate Tax Division

(California Tax Attorney Blog)
... ) 954 423 7232 Elaine McCarroll Cleveland (Covers MI, Cleveland OH) 216 520 7170 Donald Grigsby Cincinnati (Covers IN, KY, Roanoke, VA, OH) 513 263 4071 Frederick Herzog New Orleans (Covers LA, OK, MS) 504 558 3245 James McMullen (Acting)Chicago Chicago (Covers Chicago & Milwaukee) 312 566 2207 Jerry Voeller St. Paul (Covers MN, CO, SD, MT, ID) 651 312 7757 Vacant MO, IA, S. IL Michelle Moser Omaha (Covers KS, MO, NE, New Orleans) 402 221 3779 Lee Schwemer Ft. Worth, TX (Covers Dallas, Ft. ...
June 4, 2008 12:51 pm

Nail Gun Lawsuits

(Austin Personal Injury Lawyer)
... nail gun posts, but you can find more information on nail gun lawsuits throughout Injuryboard, including the following: Injuryboard national desk Des Moines personal injury lawyer Steve Lombardi Lansing personal injury lawyer David Mittleman Milwaukee personal injury lawyer David Lowe Chicago personal injury lawyer Barry Doyle If you have a nail gun claim near one of these guys, feel free to call them. They're all guys that I ...
May 30, 2008 01:58 am
... has 60 days to prepare before they are retested, or the FBI name check is still in progress. Projected Local USCIS Office Processing Times at end of September 2008 Office Months Office Months Agana, Guam 8.6 Memphis, TN 9.8 Albany, NY 7.2 Miami, FL 14.2 Albuquerque, NM 8.7 Milwaukee, WI 6.8 Anchorage, AK 8.7 Mount Laurel, NJ 11.6 Atlanta, GA 9.9 New Orleans, LA 14.5 Baltimore, MD 14 New York, NY 10.1 Boise, ID 14.2 Newark, NJ 10.3 Boston, MA 9.9 Norfolk, VA 14.6 Buffalo, NY 6.4 Oklahoma City, ...
May 14, 2008 04:04 pm
... has 60 days to prepare before they are retested, or the FBI name check is still in progress. Projected Local USCIS Office Processing Times at end of September 2008 Office Months Office Months Agana, Guam 8.6 Memphis, TN 9.8 Albany, NY 7.2 Miami, FL 14.2 Albuquerque, NM 8.7 Milwaukee, WI 6.8 Anchorage, AK 8.7 Mount Laurel, NJ 11.6 Atlanta, GA 9.9 New Orleans, LA 14.5 Baltimore, MD 14 New York, NY 10.1 Boise, ID 14.2 Newark, NJ 10.3 Boston, MA 9.9 Norfolk, VA 14.6 Buffalo, NY 6.4 Oklahoma City, ...
May 14, 2008 09:04 am
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article on an odd application of the NFA and consequences of an improper transfer. This type of result only furthers support that NFA restricted items should be help in a NFA Gun Trust to help avoid invalid transfers. ... , Short barreled Riffle, or Machine gun and want to protect your family and friends from an accidental transfer or a case involving constructive possession, you should Contact Gun Trust Lawyer to explain the benefits of using a NFA gun Trust.
May 14, 2008 08:53 am
... at the Cargill Meat Solutions plant in Milwaukee, also called Emmpak Foods, which processes more than 100 million pounds of beef every year. Bill Marler is a lawyer who specializes in food borne illnesses. "It's a dirty, dirty business," Marler said. The USDA's ... in various "non-compliance reports" found problems in one part of Cargill's big operation in Milwaukee. In April of 2006, inspectors found a "scale well is filled with previous weeks of trash and debris." Inspectors ...
May 10, 2008 06:30 pm
... a "rescission," or cancellation. Consumer advocates say mortgage brokers and big lenders made such mistakes routinely, and some lawyers have been successful at getting many clients out of bad subprime "option ARMs," or other home loans. (For background ... little-known process, check out Law Blog colleague Amir Efrati's story on rescission from last year.) The Andrews suit was certified by a Milwaukee federal judge last year and could allow as many as 7,000 of the bank's borrowers to join the class ...
April 23, 2008 05:02 pm
 
 
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