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Residential Real Property Disclosure Duties

Like homeowners, brokers and home inspectors now owe duties under various circumstances to disclose defects or conditions that may affect residential real property transactions. Recission is not a buyer's sole remedy when these duties are breached.

Collaborative Divorce and Malpractice

A malpractice lawyer's view: The contract between the collaborative divorce lawyer and the other spouse creates malpractice risks. The collaborative divorce argument: working together, family law practitioners can surmount technical challenges and substantive concerns about the collaborative process.

New Laws Reflect the Power and Potential of DNA

Wisconsin's new DNA statutes update the definition of a DNA profile to reflect modern technology: require preservation of and access to biological evidence after conviction; and relax the statute of limitation in sexual assault cases in which a DNA profile of the perpetrator exists. These changes recognize the power of DNA to prove guilt or innocence.

Collaborative Divorce and Malpractice - Collaborative Divorce is a Proven, Ethical Solution

Working together, family law practitioners can surmount technical challenges and substantive concerns about the collaborative process.

Collaborative Divorce and Malpractice - Collaborative process, itself, doesn't lead to malpractice

In collaborative divorce, there is no direct professional relationship to the other spouse. In the actual CD process, each party knows which attorney is theirs. There is no blurring of the attorney-client relationship.

Opinions, Voices & Ideas

Inside the Bar
Section leaders and members weigh in on issues important to the entire Bar as well as to sections.

President's Message
2003 is a milestone for Wisconsin legal history - marking both the supreme court's 150th and the State Bar's 125th anniversaries.

Legal News and Trends

Letters - What Has Been the Most Personally Satisfying Use of Your Legal Training?

Ethics
Email and Cell Phone Use Okay, if ...
Attorneys will still comply with Supreme Court Rules on attorney-client confidentiality when using email and cordless or cellular phones if certain precautions are taken regarding highly confidential information.

New Laws Reflect the Power and Potential of DNA (Sidebar)
Wisconsin's new DNA statutes update the definition of a DNA profile to reflect modern technology: require preservation of and access to biological evidence after conviction; and relax the statute of limitation in sexual assault cases in which a DNA profile of the perpetrator exists. These changes recognize the power of DNA to prove guilt or innocence.

Managing Risk
Disaster Recovery Plan Can Help You Manage Risk
Even when disaster occurs, attorneys still owe professional and ethical duties to clients. Limit your exposure to claims of negligence by developing and using a disaster recovery plan.

Letters

Career
Reassessing Career and Personal Goals
Promotion to partnership is an ideal time to reassess career and personal goals. A business development plan designed with your whole life in mind will provide success and satisfaction. Here's a process for designing such a plan.