Dec. 18, 2024 – As a lawyer, gaining a competitive advantage with the most updated information on changes to Wisconsin law is critical. State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE® has you covered. Check out these recently revised and supplemented titles.

New: The Wisconsin Business Entity Handbook

The Wisconsin Business Entity Handbook helps you to advise clients on the best business entity structure for their specific needs and goals. It outlines the key issues you’ll need to analyze to determine which structure fits the client’s unique circumstances and compares each entity type based on organizational, operational, and tax considerations.

Following the recent overhaul of Wisconsin’s business entity statutes, the Handbook offers timely clarity on:

• Essential requirements for creating entities, including required forms;

• Tax consequences of choosing a particular entity;

• Necessary reporting responsibilities or annual filings;

• Possible management and governance styles for the new entity;

• Fiduciary duties, rights, and limitations on ownership; and

• Potential for personal and financial liability.

Each chapter focuses on a specific entity and describes the key statutes and forms associated with it, along with links to government websites where you can locate the forms. The Handbook also provides references to other key resources you can use to expand your research.

The Handbook is now available in print and via Books UnBound®, PINNACLE’s digital library. Visit WisBar’s Marketplace for more information.

Newly Supplemented: Wisconsin Juvenile Law Handbook

Wisconsin Juvenile Law covers the provisions of both Wisconsin's Juvenile Justice Code (Wis. Stat. chapter 938) and the Children's Code (Wis. Stat. chapter 48).

You will find detailed and practical explanations of the key aspects of delinquency, CHIPS, JIPS, and UCHIPS proceedings, including the rights of the parties, the intake process, the filing of a petition, waiver of a juvenile into adult court, discovery, plea hearings, fact-finding hearings, dispositional hearings, and appeals. You will also find discussions of the termination of parental rights and parental consent for abortions.

Forms including sample petitions, motions, orders, as well as charts, practice tips, and author commentary, supplement the book's thorough treatment of statutory and case law.

The 2024–2025 supplement includes numerous changes, such as:

• The Wisconsin Legislature’s creation of a new out-of-home care placement option with a person who is “like-kin;”

• New legislation concerning the use of “baby boxes” under the safe-haven law for relinquishing custody of a newborn;

• Updated discussions about the status of the construction of a new secure youth facility to replace Lincoln Hills School and Copper Lake School; and

• Recent appellate court decisions addressing matters such as termination of parental rights, victims' rights, the Indian Child Welfare Act, and motions to suppress statements made during custodial interrogations.

The Handbook is now available in print and via Books UnBound®, PINNACLE’s digital library. Visit WisBar’s Marketplace for more information.

Newly Revised: Wisconsin Children's Code and Juvenile Justice Codebook 2025

The 2025 edition of the Wisconsin Children’s Code and Juvenile Justice Code includes the relevant Wisconsin statutes concerning children in this single volume.

The 2025 edition is current through the 2021-22 Wisconsin statutes, as affected by Wisconsin Acts through 2023 Wis. Act 272. The administrative code provisions are current through the Wisconsin Administrative Register, Nov. 2024, No. 827.

This edition includes recent legislation that:

• adds a new out-of-home care placement option with a person who is “like-kin” in the Children’s Code and Juvenile Justice Code;

• requires the Department of Health Services to establish a certification process for crisis urgent care and observation facilities to serve to prevent, deescalate, or treat mental health or substance use disorders and to support the related needs of individuals (including youth) admitted with those disorders; and

• prohibits dispositions under the Children’s Code and Juvenile Justice Code that would place a child or juvenile in the home of an individual convicted of the newly created offense of possession of virtual child pornography.

PINNACLE codebooks collect key statutes (and regulations) of relevance to a specific area of law and puts them in a single, handy volume so readers don't need to carry around multiple statute books (or hunt for items online) to access the same information.

This codebook is now available in print and via Books UnBound®, PINNACLE’s digital library. Visit WisBar’s Marketplace for more information.

Where to Find Out More

Looking for more? Visit the WisBar Marketplace for all PINNACLE books and find out more about Books Unbound™, PINNACLE’s digital book library.