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Jan

2026

- 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).

Feb

2026

- 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.

Mar

2026

- 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.