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• President's Message
  The U.S.A. at 250: The Declaration of Independence – What Does It Mean to You?
• Editor's Note
  Looking Back, Looking Ahead
• Your State Bar
  Happy New Year, Colleagues!
• As I See It
  Three Core Attributes of Tomorrow's Lawyers
• Solutions
  Generative AI Trends Shaping Law Office Administration and Paralegal Practice
• Technology
  Pick Your Winner: 2026 Smartphone Lineup
• Rotunda Report
  State Bar Issues Outstanding as Fall Floor Session Comes to a Close
• Ethics Opinion
  EF-25-03: Representing a Criminal Defendant with Diminished Capacity
• Final Thought
  Preserving Rule of Law Requires Protecting Judicial Independence

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Jan 

2026

Features

• • Wisconsin Legal Trends 2026
  • In this article, 21 lawyers discuss legal trends in 21 different practice areas.
• • Inside the Efforts to Bring More Lawyers to Rural Wisconsin
  • Many lawyers and legal entities in Wisconsin and elsewhere seek to find workable remedies that lead to long-term solutions to increase the number of lawyers in rural areas, including the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the State Bar of Wisconsin, the UW and Marquette University Law Schools, and individual lawyers and law firms. The authors look at some of these efforts.
• • The State of Hemp-Derived Products in Wisconsin
  • The 2018 Farm Bill made possible a legal hemp-derived product market in the U.S. But a part of the spending package that ended the federal government shutdown in November 2025 was a provision that will effectively ban most, if not all, hemp-derived products. Learn how a new definition of hemp will affect interstate commerce of hemp-derived products, criminal liability of producers, retailers, and consumers, and state and local cannabis regulation's governance over these products.
• • Anatomy of an Indemnification Agreement: The First-Party Claim Conundrum
  • The author examines the conditions under Wisconsin law in which a contractual indemnification provision applies not only to claims by a nonparty to the contract against the indemnified party (third-party claims) but also to claims between parties to the contract (first-party claims).

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Opinions, Voices & Ideas

• President's Message
  Paralegals: Your Small-Firm Growth Partners
• Your State Bar
  Deepening the Attorney-Client Bond
• 101
  Litigating with Judgment: What Abraham Lincoln's Trial Practice Teaches Modern Lawyers
• Ethics
  It's Not You, It's Me, Except It's Definitely You
• Solutions
  A Day in the Life of Civil Legal Aid – Where You Can Make a Difference
• Listening to Lawyers
  Sexual Assault, Lawyering, and Well-being
• Managing Risk
  Rising Claims, Shifting Risks – A 2025 Malpractice Snapshot for Wisconsin Lawyers
• Technology
  Incident Response Has Become a Law Firm Survival Skill
• Final Thought
  America@250 and the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month

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• Court of Appeals Digest
• Lawyer Discipline
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Feb 

2026

Features

• • Wisconsin's Northern Border Conflict Revisited
  • Boundary disputes are common between private property owners, local governments, states, or nations. This article discusses the disagreement between the states of Wisconsin and Michigan about Wisconsin's northern border. The dispute, dormant for many years, was resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1926 after Michigan brought an original-jurisdiction action.
• • Evidence, Procedure, Fairness: Applying the Rules in Family Court
  • The author discusses the importance of the rules of evidence, and to a certain extent the rules of civil procedure, in family court trials. This issue deserves special attention by judges and lawyers in the family law context because family law litigants are in as much need of "truth-finding" as litigants in any other area of practice.
• • As I See It
    The Challenge of Handling Pornography and Other Incriminating Evidence in Wisconsin
  • Possession of some types of incriminating evidence poses challenges not only for defendants but also for their lawyers. Child pornography is a prominent example. The authors explore differing views as to how lawyers should deal with such evidence if they are aware of its existence or if they have been given the evidence or a device that contains the evidence.

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Opinions, Voices & Ideas

• President's Message
  Challenge Your Opinions
• Your State Bar
  Understanding the "And"
• Q&A Profile
  Chad W. Koplien: Serving a Cause Bigger than Oneself
• Ethics
  Speaking Publicly about Client Matters: Always Be Cautious
• Solutions
  Talk Is Not Cheap: Why Communication Is the Most Valuable Service You Provide
• Practice Pulse
  Take Back Your Time: A Practical Guide to Task Tracking, Delegation, and Block Scheduling
• Technology
  AI and Expert Witnesses: Not Replacement But a Strategic Imperative
• Final Thought
  Women's History Month: Reframing the "Fight" for Equal Opportunity as a Collaboration

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• Briefly
• Snapshot
• Supreme Court Digest
• Court of Appeals Digest
• Lawyer Discipline
• Members Only
• Classifieds

Mar 

2026

Features

• • More Executive Orders, Deregulation, and Targeted Enforcement: 2025 in Review
  • The first year of the second Trump administration, beginning in mid-January 2025, included notable developments in the areas of federal regulatory and enforcement actions. This article discusses some of the most significant developments for lawyers.
• • As I See It
    Does Governmental Immunity Relieve a Governmental Entity from Liability for a Safe Place Violation?
  • Liability for governmental entities for safe-place-statute violations is unclear because of conflicting opinions from the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. The supreme court can restore harmony on the topic but only if and when it accepts review of a case involving a person injured in a public building owned by a governmental entity.
• • THC Beverages, the Farm Bill, and the Federal Register: How Hemp Slipped Into a Regulatory Gap
  • Lawyers advising clients on any matters involving THC beverages face challenges: not only determining whether THC beverages are lawful but also understanding how federal regulatory systems behave when Congress draws a bright statutory line and agencies must govern the shadows around it.

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Opinions, Voices & Ideas

• President's Message
  Paying It Forward Through Mentorship
• Your State Bar
  State Bar Elections: Be a Part of the State Bar's Future
• As I See It
  Continuing Discussion: Wisconsin View on Lawyers' Handling of Child Pornography
• Ethical Dilemma
  Breaking Up Is Hard to Do – When a Judge Won't Let You Withdraw from a Representation
• Listening to Lawyers
  Antidotes to Anxiety in Tumultuous Times
• Rotunda Report
  Finding a Middle Ground – Legislative Compromise Can Be a Hard Sell
• Managing Risk
  Communication, Consent, and AI: Timeless Professional Duties in a Changing Practice
• Solutions
  Rethinking Legal Clinics as Economic Infrastructure
• Final Thought
  Earth Day: Wisconsin Roots and the Protection of Natural Resources

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• Briefly
• Snapshot
• Supreme Court Digest
• Court of Appeals Digest
• Members Only
• Classifieds

Apr 

2026

Features

• • Chaos and Disorder:
    How Prince's Views on Contracts Impacted His Family and His Estate
  • Prince's belief that contracts were immoral led to his decision not to put a proper estate plan in place, triggering significant tax liabilities for his estate and obstacles for his family members in the administration of his estate and in benefiting from his remaining musical assets. This opposition to contract law led to one of the messiest estates in Minnesota history.
• • As I See It
    Understanding Fusion Voting
  • No single electoral reform is going to cure every ailing aspect of democracy in the United States. But at least one reform, fusion voting, is ripe for reexamination by courts that previously upheld state bans on its use. This article explains what fusion voting is and why people are talking about it.
• • Post-death Administration in Wisconsin: Navigating Options in an Aging Population
  • Wisconsin has a relatively high proportion of residents who are age 65 or older. This demographic trend emphasizes the importance of lawyers being familiar with various post-death administration options, to minimize costs, delays, and conflicts for clients and their heirs. This article reviews key techniques available in Wisconsin.
• • Channels of Tax Law (Mis)Information
  • Taxpayers receive information about tax law from a variety of sources – not only from tax advisors or the IRS. And some of the information is dispensed when a taxpayer is deciding not how to file a tax return but whether to engage in a transaction. Lawyers and tax advisors should be aware of the potential sources of information and misinformation.

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