Law

With a newly established strategic plan, Safe & Sound is beefing up its community organizing and youth organizing initiatives to build safe, empowered neighborhoods and refocusing its funding in order to maximize its impact.

Durham, N.C.-based Cree Inc. has filed complaints with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin to curb alleged infringement on Cree’s patented technologies. Cree, an innovator of LED lighting, manufactures lighting products in Sturtevant, where it employs more than 1,100 employees.

With two new attorneys onboard, Milwaukee-based personal injury law firm Hupy and Abraham, S.C. aims to bolster its litigation and nursing home and abuse cases practice area.

Atlanta-based Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C., one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management in the nation, has opened a new office in Milwaukee at 250 E. Wisconsin Ave.

Ms. Shiner claimed that at the company holiday party she was fondled, had her boss's tongue in her ear, was chased around a table and propositioned.

The law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP and its firm chair Kimberly Leach Johnson today announced that partner Katherine Maloney Perhach has been selected as the new Milwaukee office managing partner.

The Schroeder Group S.C. Attorneys at Law has adopted a new management structure that will transfer operational direction of the Waukesha firm to president and attorney John Yentz from founder Stuart Schroeder, who will remain as a practicing attorney.

President Barack Obama announced sweeping new administrative reforms to the way current immigration laws are enforced. Politics aside, there are a number of changes to the ways these new rules will be administered. Some will occur quickly, but others will take months.

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. recognized area nonprofit organizations and firm staff members who serve them during a special board appreciation event held Nov. 12 at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The reception, which supported the firm's spirit of philanthropy, also gave nonprofits and nonprofit board members an opportunity to network. More than 200 representatives from southeastern Wisconsin's nonprofit and for-profit communities attended the event.

President Barack Obama took a stand this week by calling for the Federal Communications Commission to preserve net neutrality by regulating broadband service like a utility.