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).