At the end of last month I blogged about a legal comedy of errors that ended with a default judgement being entered against softdrink maker PepsiCo. If you somehow missed the original story, our take on it can be found here. If any of you own shares in Pepsi, you can breathe easier… for [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Pepsi Co is the victim of its own bureaucracy in a Wisconsin case that ended in a default judgement earlier this month. The background is simple enough. Two Wisconsin men sued Pepsi in June for allegedly misappropriating trade secrets from confidential talks and using them to make and sell Aquafina. The men served Pepsi [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Milwaukee’s Quarles & Brady has “suspended” its 2010 Summer Associate Program, citing its commitment to hire its new 2009 associates class, which has been deferred to January 2010. Quarles & Brady LLP is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According to the National Law Journal’s 2007 rankings, it was the 90th largest law firm in the United States, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 16, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Scott Martin joins Greenberg Traurig in New York City as a shareholder in the Antitrust Litigation Practice, from Weil Gotshal where he served as a partner. He focuses his practice in the areas of antitrust and complex commercial litigation. Martin earned his JD from Stanford Law School. Former [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Milwaukee’s Techmeier Law Firm is merging with national personal injury and criminal defense firm The Cochran Firm. Techmeier will operate under the Cochran Firm name. Will Techmeier, founder of the 10-lawyer firm, will become the managing partner of the Cochran Milwaukee office. Founded in 1979, the Techmeier Law Firm specializes in personal injury and wrongful death litigation. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
The State Bar of Wisconsin and the state public defender’s office are demanding a $30 an hour increase in the pay for attorneys who volunteer to defend indigents. Public defender Nick Chiarkis says the current $40 an hour rate doesn’t cover the overhead at even a small law firm. He claims the constitutional mandate to provide [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 2, 2009
Littler Mendelson announced today the opening of an office, its 47th, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. New Milwaukee shareholder Jon Levine and his staff will represent clients in employment litigation in state and federal courts and before the National Labor Relations Board, as well as collective bargaining, labor arbitration and union avoidance. Prior to joining Littler, Levine was a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Four attorneys specializing in intellectual property have left Michael Best & Friedrich in Madison, Wisconsin to join Minneapolis’ Merchant & Gould. Attorneys Jeffrey S. Ward, Wendy M. Ward, Thomas P. Heneghan and Edward J. Pardon, who also is a physician, will open a Madison office of Merchant & Gould, and will focus on the generic pharmaceutical [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 3, 2009
The names of applicants to fill the seat of the federal judge for the western Wisconsin district based in Madison were released on Tuesday. The names of those hoping to become the next U.S. Attorney in the Milwaukee-based eastern district were also released. 13 people are applying for the judge’s position. 10 are applying for [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Jeff Colman, a partner at Jenner and Block in Chicago, will visit the University of Wisconsin at Madison to give a public talk regarding his experience representing detainees held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The talk, entitled “Guantanamo and The Rule of Law,” is hosted by the University’s Law School, the College [...]
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