Wisconsin Lawyer

Official publication of the
State Bar of Wisconsin
Vol. 70, No. 12
December 1997

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Features

1997 Bench-Bar Survey: Views from Both Sides of the Bench

To spark a lively debate amongst a room full of judges and lawyers, all one need do is mention certain topics: judge substitutions; local rules of civil procedure; the role of court commissioners in the judicial system; civility within the legal profession; judicial salaries. Last spring, 1,154 randomly selected lawyers and all 405 active and reserve judges were polled on these and other subjects in the 1997 Bench-Bar Survey. The findings revealed surprises in some areas and confirmed long-held assumptions in others. Here is a synopsis of the survey's results. More

Wisconsin's Do Not Resuscitate Bracelet Law Raises Legal and Medical Issues

Physicians now can provide a do not resuscitate (DNR) order in the form of a bracelet for their terminally ill adult patients who request it. But many questions remain. More

Regulating the Profession: BAPR Annual Report

Among its achievements in fiscal 1997, BAPR continued to improve the timeliness of investigations, disposing of 1,479 grievances in an average time of 4.4 months. More

Columns

President's message
Crafting a Mission: A Bottom-up Review of the State Bar

Guest Editorial
Does the State Bar Need a New Facility?

Managing risk
Have license, will travel, Part I: Lawyer mobility leaves circuitous trail of risk


Departments

Letters

News Briefs

Book reviews

Court of Appeals digest

Supreme Court orders

Supreme Court digest

Lawyer discipline

In the News

At Issue
Closing out cleanups for good.

In Plain English
Father's English usage pet peeves rub off on author, who's developed a few of her own.

The Computerized Lawyer
Increasing dependence upon computers requires that law firms consider the consequences if their electronic information is suddenly no longer available. This article discusses how law firms can plan against electronic disasters so that computer mishaps are merely inconveniences and not tragedies.

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