What Legal Documents Should You Expect if You Are Served with a Lawsuit? Has a stranger showed up at your place of employment or home, handed over an assortment of papers, and told you that you’ve been served? Try not to panic. While no one is ever truly ready to deal with the unfortunate reality […]
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As attorneys, we are often approached by people in difficult situations who need immediate help. Many times, these situations are practically unavoidable, e.g., someone’s grandpa died without a will and an aunt is challenging the distributions; someone’s mom gave me them a share of the company’s stock, but now her business partner is trying to
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You arrive home from vacation and see that your next-door neighbor has put up a shed that is partially on your lawn. Or maybe you have decided to sell your home and a survey shows that your fence encroaches on the property next-door. What can you do to resolve this dispute? If you find yourself
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The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on businesses and individuals alike. Businesses have been forced to close their doors, employees have been laid off, and consumers have been unable to purchase goods and services. In the midst of this chaos, many businesses have turned to force majeure clauses in their contracts in an attempt
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In the era of fake news, blogs, and social media, words like “defamatory,” “libelous,” and “slanderous” are often colloquially used to describe instances in which someone is characterized in an unsavory light. Though there is some truth to this interpretation, each of these words are also legal terms that provide grounds for a lawsuit in
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A trial court generally discourages self-representation, but it does not prohibit it. The results of representing oneself pro se can be interesting, cost effective, or uncomfortable as the Waukesha County case of Darrell Brooks is proving to be. While the criminal system may provide defendants with a state appointed attorney as a matter of right, the same
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As the pandemic drags on and folks across the world remain inside, Americans have turned to Amazon to deliver many of the essential supplies needed to stock their homes during quarantine. Over the first quarter of 2020, Amazon raked in $76 billion in net sales (up from $60 billion over the same quarter in 2019), causing its
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We live in a connected world. Facebook, SnapChat, Tik Tok, LinkedIn, Instagram. The manner in which people socialize online is nearly endless. This web of interconnected posts, likes and online friendships creates a substantial risk of bias and conflicts of interest in our court systems. The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently waded into the tangled web of online
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On April 17, 2020, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued an order removing the requirement that an attorney who helps a self-represented person to author a document filed with a court be identified by name and bar number. By amending Wis. Stat. § 802.05(2m) in this manner, the Supreme Court effectively reinstated the ability of attorneys to “ghostwrite”
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