Nov. 19, 2025 – If your bookshelf still reflects pre-2025 law, it may be time for an upgrade. State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE® has released new or updated editions of four practice-critical titles – covering discovery, worker’s compensation, nonprofit organizations, and civil procedure – to help you stay current and efficient.
Check out these recently revised and supplemented titles:
In
Wisconsin Discovery Law and Practice, you will find a thorough guide to the discovery process, from the basics of discovery, such as the purpose, methods, and advantages or disadvantages of discovery, to highly advanced techniques, such as objections, inspections, or another of the hundreds of aspects of discovery law.
You’ll find hundreds of tips that will make you not just a competent lawyer, but an exceptional lawyer in the realm of discovery.
Understand the scope of discovery that is available to you.
Learn the function and advantages of both formal and informal discovery.
See how you can modify discovery procedures.
Know how the general requirement of relevance affects your actions and your case.
Understand the role of privileges and immunities in limiting the nature and extent of discovery, and the application of the doctrine of waiver/forfeiture in a discovery setting.
You’ll find hundreds of useful examples, practice tips, instructions, and sample questions addressing the key facets of discovery – from initial discovery to interrogatories, to inspection of documents, places, and things, all the way through judicial supervision and enforcement. You’ll find the guides, samples, and lists you need not only to perform discovery, but to excel at it.
The book’s 10 chapters, sample forms, and thorough index will help you clarify discovery law in Wisconsin.
For those who spend only part of their time in litigation, the book will become a valuable reference as you work your way through your case. For those whose entire practice deals with litigation, the book will become your guiding authority for discovery in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Discovery Law and Practice is available
in print and electronically
via Books Unbound™.
The
Worker’s Compensation Handbook is an essential resource for any lawyer who represents employees or employers in worker’s compensation cases – including corporate counsel and practitioners of employment, personal injury, and insurance law.
The
Handbook thoroughly explains the fundamentals of worker’s compensation law and practice, including:
You’ll also find insightful analysis into common and not-so-common worker’s comp situations, such as:
how an injured worker becomes entitled to statutory benefits;
how to proceed in an administrative hearing;
what constitutes a prima facie case for defending against claims; and
how and for what types of work lawyers can receive attorney fees in worker's compensation cases.
Additional materials in the book’s appendices include:
The
Worker’s Compensation Handbook is available
in print and electronically
via Books Unbound™.
Get answers to your nonprofit legal questions with
A Guide for Wisconsin Nonprofit Organizations, newly revised, from PINNACLE®.
What forms of fundraising are permitted for nonprofits? Can they engage in lobbying? What liabilities do officers and directors face?
If you're an attorney who advises nonprofits and you're looking for basic, practical guidance, turn to the
A Guide for Wisconsin Nonprofit Organizations. More than 30 authors, reviewers, and other contributors have given their expertise to this book.
The Guide takes you through all phases of a nonprofit’s life cycle, from formation to dissolution – giving you a time-saving place to start all your nonprofit research.
Your practice will be more efficient when you take advantage of the guide’s easy-to-use practice tips, checklists, forms, and cautions. A complete index makes it easy to locate information quickly.
The 2025-26 revision includes a number of changes, including:
a discussion of the modification of the excise tax on net investment income of private colleges and universities;
a recent opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which adds some uncertainty to the interpretation of the “primary activity” test, used to determine whether an organization that carries on business with the general public is exempt from taxation;
a National Labor Relations Board decision adopting a new legal standard for evaluating the validity of workplace rules under the National Labor Relations Act; and
a discussion of Executive Order 14173, and its effect on the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, including its stated policy to “combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.”
The
Guide for Wisconsin Nonprofit Organizations is available both
in print and electronically
via Books Unbound™.
With the
Judicial Benchbook, you’ll have the same guidelines and procedural steps that judges use. It will be your fundamental guide to the most essential issues involved in filing any sort of civil action.
In addition to taking readers through the main stages of a civil case, the book devotes several individual chapters to specific topics that may come up from time to time in civil practice, such as garnishment, foreclosure, and injunctions.
For an attorney who might be familiar with general civil procedure but needs a "refresher" on some of these specific proceedings, these chapters can provide a helpful reference.
Several chapters are updated by lawyer contributors with expertise in these areas (e.g., bankruptcy, small claims, and zoning).
With an easy-to-follow outline format, this
Benchbook provides what you need to move your civil law case along. Key steps are highlighted along with citations to the most relevant cases and statutes for common procedures such as:
filing motions;
selecting a jury; and
presenting witnesses.
You’ll also have quick access to a variety of specific topics not covered in the other four benchbooks in the
Judicial Benchbook series, including:
bankruptcy;
eminent domain;
foreclosure;
garnishment;
insurance; and
small claims.
The first chapter of the book provides a flowchart, which diagrams the procedural steps in a civil case. The chart gives a quick visual of a case from start to finish.
The book includes a few sample forms, including ones for scheduling conferences, pretrial conferences, and condemnation cases.
The
2025-26 Supplement includes a number of changes, such as:
new references to recently decided appellate opinions on various topics, including pleadings, discovery, damages, judgments, open meetings, standing to seek judicial review of administrative agency decisions, the Wisconsin Consumer Act, claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, exhaustion requirements under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, receiverships, and class actions;
modified discussions of commencing an action and challenges to service, reorganized to make relevant content easier to locate in the chapters;
a revised chapter on zoning, clarifying statements of the law and adding new topics;
incorporation of recent legislative amendments to the Wisconsin Public Records Law and the Worker’s Compensation Act; and
updated dollar amounts affecting garnishment proceedings and condemnation actions.
The
Wisconsin Judicial Benchbook Vol. II: Civil is available both
in print and electronically
via Books Unbound™.
