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State Bar

• New statewide Pro Bono Directory available – find an opportunity near you today
• Deadlines approach for committee appointments and board of governors seats
• 50-year members honored at 2009 State Bar Annual Convention in May

Upcoming Events - See All

• Learn about land use regulations and taxation issues at CLE seminar
• Members invited to free Fastcase legal research webcast seminars
• Breakfast & Business CLE seminar comes to La Crosse, Racine, Platteville, and Pembine

New Products - See All

• 2009 Wisconsin Lawyer Directory available now; order extra copies for support staff
• Eckhardt’s Estate Planning Workbook now in its fifth edition

Member Services

• Grow your clientele and serve the public; join the State Bar's referral service and save
• Affordable group accidental death and dismemberment insurance plan available

Legislative

• State Bar renews call to adequately fund public defenders and prosecutors

Practice

• Recent jury verdicts, bench decisions, settlements, and arbitration awards
• Tips for filing electronic briefs
• Immunity for school sports activities withstands challenge before supreme court

Legal Research

• The many faces of Google: Specialized search tools
• Immunity for school sports activities withstands challenge before supreme court

Practice Management

• Configure your web browser to access Fastcase legal research advanced search (video)
• When you go to heaven, will your practice go to hell? (More Practice 411 Advice Alerts) 

Court

• Primetime Live coanchor, John Quiñones, to speak at Annual Diversity Counsel Program in October, register today
• Scope of underinsured motorist insurance limited by Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Immunity for school sports activities withstands challenge before supreme court
• 'Disfigurement' given broad meaning under disability statute by supreme court
• Nonprofit corporation is not "for-profit" because it is profitable, says supreme court
• Prior violent offense element of greater stalking felony, Wisconsin Supreme Court holds
• All out-of-state lawyers now waived in on proof of practice, among other rule changes
• Wisconsin courts prep for wave of foreclosures
• Police 'caretaker function' basis for warrantless seizure, Wisconsin Supreme Court says
• Insurer must cover all of loss not entirely within policy period, says Wisconsin Supreme Court

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