Law
Foley & Lardner targets next generation manufacturers with new legal innovation hub
After more than 170 years of working closely with U.S. manufacturers, Milwaukee-based law firm Foley & Lardner LLP has created a hub to address the uncharted issues that next generation manufacturers are facing as they rely on new technologies, new business models and new partners to compete globally.
Social media employment legislation on its way to Wisconsin
Wisconsin is poised to become the 13th state to pass legislation prohibiting employers from requesting social media account information from employees or applicants. Assembly Bill 218 and Senate Bill 223 follow the trend sweeping across the country in response to reports of employers asking applicants for access to social media accounts as part of the interview process. Legislators supporting the bill are hailing it as “The Social Media Protection Act.”
Walny Legal Group to move into Watts building
Downtown Milwaukee luxury gift retailer George Watts & Son Inc. announced today it will relocate its second floor showroom space to its first floor to accommodate room for a boutique law firm on the second floor.
Whyte Hirschboek appoints new shareholders
Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. announced that Lydia Chartre, Daniel La Fave, Timothy Posnanski, and Barbara Zabawa have been elected shareholders.
Cooper case withdrawn
A complaint filed by a union member against Palermo Villa Inc. in March, which could have delayed a union vote there, has been withdrawn.
The layers of successful trust planning
Regardless of the intended purpose, the process of completing and implementing a trust involves layers of planning and analysis. This article touches on two of those layers.
- Advertisement -
BizTimes Around Town: WAAL Scholarship Dinner
The Wisconsin Association of African-American Lawyers (WAAL) recently hosted its 23rd Annual Scholarship Dinner in Milwaukee.
Cautionary tales from the NFL
It happens every summer. A number of newly minted millionaires-in-waiting report to NFL training camps.
Marathon man
Matt O'Neill used to believe that every mile a person runs equals a mile they won't be able to walk at the end of their life.
15%
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a challenge by the American Petroleum Institute to block the sales of E15, a 15-percent ethanol blend of gasoline. That means more gas stations are likely to sell E15.
