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    Wisconsin Lawyer
    November 01, 2001

    Wisconsin Lawyer November 2001: Taking the Profession's Pulse

Other results unreported in the main article include:

  • 69 percent respondents disagreed that the current system of campaign financing for judicial elections is acceptable.
  • 59 percent agreed that judges are not paid enough.
  • 52 percent felt that Wisconsin should mandate the use of mandatory interrogatories and other mandatory disclosures.
  • 65 percent thought Wisconsin should allow electronic filing of all documents, including summonses and complaints.
  • 54 percent agreed that judges do not understand the problems lawyers face in the discovery process.
  • 57 percent disagreed that lawyers should not be constrained in discussing civil cases with the press if their clients consent.
  • 53 percent said too many lawyers are in practice today for the amount of work to be done.
  • 63 percent disagreed that the attorney discipline process will improve due to replacement of the Board of Attorneys Professional Responsibility with the new Office of Lawyer Regulation.

Of those respondents who had an opinion, 57 percent did not believe the Bar should undertake a study to determine to what extent racial and ethnic bias exist in the court system and to measure public perception of such bias. But 26 percent of all respondents either had no opinion or gave no response.


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