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Two sessions focusing on The Small Family Business—what every lawyer needs to know to advise family business owners concerning Starting Up and Breaking Up!
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - A Panel Discussion: New enforcement trends means compliance with the FCPA is more important than ever, help your clients with effective strategies for managing risk with guidance from the DoJ and SEC.
What do legal ethics and a famous 1908 baseball error have in common? Find out at the Real Estate and Business Law Institute’s ticketed lunch, The Bonehead Play, featuring Mark D. Yochum
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- The Federal REAL ID Act and Its Fate in Wisconsin
- Under the Federal REAL ID Act, beginning on May 11, 2008, a Wisconsin resident may not use a Wisconsin driver’s license or state-issued identification card to prove identity when boarding a commercial aircraft or entering a federal building unless the driver’s license or ID card is REAL ID compliant. Read about what this means to Wisconsin lawyers and citizens.
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- Using Wisconsin's Commercial Offer to Purchase Form
- Generally speaking, the terms and provisions of the standardized commercial offer to purchase form create a contract with broad representations, limited contingencies, and unlimited remedies. Here are some of the issues parties should consider when usingthe commercial offer to purchase form.
- Shedding Light on Recent Developments Affecting LLCs
- The authors highlight several recent cases and statutes they believe reflect the most important developments affecting limited liability companies.
- State Bar CLE Books' Real Estate Transactions System (Third Edition) can enhance your practice
- This book provides everything you need to know about routine procedures for real estate transactions involving residential and commercial structures, vacant land, condominiums, land contracts, and options to purchase.
- State Bar CLE Books: Helping You Meet the Needs of Business Clients
- To help you provide more efficient and effective service to your business clients, consider adding these resources to your practice library.

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Inside the Bar Comity Makes CLE Reporting Easier...Usually CLE compliance will be easier for most nonresident members.	President's Message Exploring Mandatory Membership What membership status will address our profession’s challenges?
Files are the property of the client, and the lawyer holds them in trust on behalf of the client. As such, the lawyer has a responsibility to "	appropriately safeguard"
client files.	Practice Tips Insuring Your Law Office against Disaster How can I ethically disengage from representing problem clients, and better yet, how do I identify and avoid problem clients in the first place?
What Keeps You Awake at Night? How Can I Avoid Negotiating the Bill After the Work Is Done? The expectation of payment for services rendered by a law firm for its clients should begin during the new-client intake process.	Legal Research To Cite or Not to Cite: Should Wisconsin Permit Citing of Unpublished Opinions? Understand the options available to protect your business.
Marketing Cutting-edge Marketing: The Legal Podcast A client of many years has asked for a percentage discounted from his bill. We frequently perform work for this client, but he does not use our firm exclusively. How can I avoid a round of negotiations over the bill after the work is done, while at the s; On Oct. 14, the supreme court will consider citing unpublished decisions.; Using podcasts to market your law firm is smart, easy, and inexpensive.

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