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Summer 2012 Volume 2 Milwaukee Bar Association’s 154th Annual Meeting. PERMIT NO. 3207 NO. PERMIT MILWAUKEE, WI MILWAUKEE, Milwaukee, WI 53202-3746 WI Milwaukee, PAID 424 E. Wells St. Wells E. 424 U.S. POSTAGE U.S. Milwaukee Bar Association Bar Milwaukee PRSRT STD PRSRT Messenger 1 Regular Features Contents 4 Letter From the Editor Summer 2012 • Volume 2 4 Volunteer Spotlight 5 Member News In This Issue: 5 New Members 5 And Now for Something Completely Different . 6 Message From the President 7 CLE Calendar 7 Thank You MJC Donors! 11 The Reel Law 8 Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: the Enduring Lessons of Bleak House by Attorney Douglas H. Frazer, DeWitt Ross & Stevens 21 Pro Bono Corner 8 24th Annual MBA Foundation Golf Outing: Benefiting the Milwaukee Justice Center 22 Classifieds 9 A Wired Thing Happened in Court: Electronic Filing Arrives in Milwaukee County by Attorney John W. Barrett, Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court Be Part of the Messenger Please send your articles, editorials, or 10 Milwaukee County Circuit Court Welcomes Three New Judges anecdotes to [email protected] or mail them to Editor, Milwaukee Bar 10 Second Annual MJC 5K Run for Justice Set for July 25 Association, 424 East Wells Street, by Joseph Riggenbach, Milwaukee Justice Center Milwaukee, WI 53202. We look forward to hearing from you! 12 Milwaukee Bar Association’s 154th Annual Meeting If you would like to participate on the 13 Memorial Service 2012 Messenger Committee, we have seats 15 Keep Your “Friends” Close: Protecting Employers’ Ownership Interests in Their available. Please contact James Temmer, Corporate Social Media [email protected]. by Attorneys Amy Hartwig and Steven Nigh, Michael Best & Friedrich 17 Search Engine Optimization for the Sole Practitioner and Small Law Firms by Ken Matejka, President, Mission LegalPPC, Inc The MBA Messenger is published Statement quarterly by the Milwaukee Bar 18 Hannah Dugan Captures First Annual Established in 1858, the mission of the Milwaukee Association, Inc., 424 East Wells Street, Messenger Award Bar Association is to serve the interests of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202. lawyers, judges and the people of Milwaukee Telephone: 414-274-6760 18 Fox 6 Law Day Phone Bank County by working to: E-mail: [email protected] • Promote the professional interests of the 19 Michael Hupy: a Portrait in local bench and bar Generosity The opinions stated herein are not • Encourage collegiality, public service Attorney Michael J. Cohen, Meissner, necessarily those of the Milwaukee and professionalism on the part of the Bar Association, Inc., or any of its Tierney, Fisher & Nichols lawyers of Southeastern Wisconsin directors, officers, or employees. The 20 Foreclosure Filings in Milwaukee • Improve access to justice for those living information presented in this publication and working in Milwaukee County should not be construed to be County Continued to Decline in 2011 by Attorney Jeremy P. Shapiro-Barr • Support the courts of Milwaukee County formal legal advice or the formation in the administration of justice of a lawyer-client relationship. All 21 Congratulations to the VLP Award manuscripts submitted will be reviewed and Winners for possible publication. The editors • Increase public awareness of the reserve the right to edit all material for 21 Thank You, Law Day Volunteers style and length. Advertising and general crucial role that the law plays information concerning this publication in the lives of are available from Britt Wegner, the people of telephone 414-276-5931. Milwaukee County. Messenger 3 MBA Board of Letter From the Editor Directors and Staff Not entirely sure I trust to the rafters is this issue that we don’t really Charles H. Barr, President this new President have room for a full-length Letter from the character. His derriere Editor. Plus, I’m told I have to defer to this Beth E. Hanan, President-Elect has hardly touched the new President fellow. I remain skeptical, but David G. Peterson, Vice President throne, and he’s already, I suppose we should let him say something. Patricia A. Hintz, Secretary/Treasurer like, all with the snide Thus, I respectfully refer you to the Table of Michael J. Cohen, Past President comments. What is his Contents (p.3). term, a year? Meh! I’ll Directors be around long after We hope you enjoy this issue of the Messenger, Charles Barr, Editor Shannon A. Allen he’s gone and forgotten. as well as Wisconsin’s glorious summer. And Friebert, Finerty & St. John Fiefdom indeed. He thinks he’s so smart, let remember, somewhere out there is the future him edit the magazine. winner of the second annual Messenger Marcia F. Drame award for the best article in this and the next Northwestern Mutual Be that as it may, we have a jam-packed three issues. Might it be you? Honorable Timothy G. Dugan summer issue of the Messenger for you. This Milwaukee County Circuit Court really is a happenin’ bar association! So filled — C.B. Maria L. Kreiter Godfrey & Kahn Susan E. Lovern von Briesen & Roper Volunteer Spotlight David G. Peterson Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren Anne Wal Anne has a background in bankruptcy, which she uses at the Volunteer Lawyers Project Thomas H. Reed Attorney Anne Wal is an Bankruptcy Clinic sponsored by Legal State Public Defender, Milwaukee associate at von Briesen Action of Wisconsin. She also does volunteer Criminal Trial Office & Roper, and practices in work unrelated to law. In honor of her Polish Honorable Maxine Aldridge White the real estate, banking, heritage, Anne works at Polish Fest every Milwaukee County Circuit Court and construction areas. year running a little general store (“Maly Andrew J. Wronski Anne works with Sklep” in Polish), the profits of which benefit Foley & Lardner buyers/sellers and Polish Heritage Alliance, Inc. landlords/tenants in commercial real estate MBA Staff transactions. James D. Temmer, Executive Director Katy Borowski, Director of Projects Anne has participated in MBA Law Day activities to address landlord/tenant issues. Sabrina Nunley, Director of Continuing Since September 2011, she has been the co- Save the Legal Education chair of the MBA’s Real Property Section. Dorothy Protz, Accountant Date! Molly Staab, Communication Specialist To Anne, the most important aspect of the MBA volunteer programs is the chance to Britt Wegner, Director, Lawyer work with people in the community who Referral & Information Service July 25 would otherwise not receive any type of Milwaukee Justice Center MJC Staff legal assistance. At Law Day events, people line up to talk with lawyers about problems 5K Run for Justice Dawn Caldart, Executive Director that weigh heavily on their minds, and which Ayame Metzger, Legal Director they may believe to be insurmountable. In most instances, the volunteer lawyers are August 1 Contact Information able to come up with a game plan to deal 24th Annual Milwaukee Milwaukee Bar Association, Inc. with the issue. Anne recalls one woman at a 424 East Wells Street Bar Association Law Day event who was so relieved to learn Foundation Golf Outing Milwaukee, WI 53202 she was “judgment proof” that she burst into Phone: 414-274-6760 tears and gave her a huge bear hug. Fax: 414-274-6765 www.milwbar.org Anne feels that the ability to retain a lawyer October 24 is out of reach for many in our community. 9th Annual State of the Participation in Law Day and other MBA Court Luncheon volunteer programs gives her the chance to help those people . 4 Summer 2012 And Now for Something Member News Completely Different . Axley Brynelson, headquartered in Madison, and Murn & Martin, Waukesha, announced It’s time for the annual judicial rotation in the reassigned calendar accompany the the combination of their two firms, which Milwaukee County Circuit Court. Time for arrows. The courtroom location key is: C – will operate as Axley Brynelson. selected judges to pack up the boxes, stuff Courthouse; CJF – Criminal Justice Facility; the loose papers into a briefcase, find their SB – Safety Building; VPJJC – Vel Phillips Grzeca Law Group, a full-service immigration new courtrooms, and tackle a new set of Juvenile Justice Center. law firm, announced the addition of two headaches (a/k/a “calendar”). associates, Rita Kapadia and Teodora Room changes will be after the close of Zlatkova. To assist you in deciphering who is going business on Thursday, July 26. Due to time- where, we have laid out the information in block calendar assignments on criminal R e i n h a r t an easy-to-read format. We hope. A judge’s calendars, new calendar assignments will be B o e r n e r branch number follows his or her name. effective Saturday, July 28. Van Deuren The letter code or description, or both, of announced the addition of two Children’s Division associates to Judge Foley (14)uuuuuuuuu (GJ)uuuuuuuu Judge Colon (18) – VPJJC 1410 its Milwaukee Judge Rothstein (25)uuuuuuu (EJ)uuuuuuuu Judge Cimpl (19) – VPJJC 2425 office. They Judge Colon (18)uuuuuuuuu (AJ)uuuuuuuu Judge Dwyer (16) – VPJJC 2410 are R. Joseph R. Joseph Stennis Bryant E. Ferguson Judge Donald (2)uuuuuuuuu (CJ)uuuuuuuu Judge Sanders (28) – VPJJC 2421 “Joe” Stennis, in the Labor and Employment Judge Murray(43)uuuuuuuu (HJ)uuuuuuuu Judge Donald (2) – VPJJC 2500 practice area; and Bryant E. Ferguson, in the Employee Benefits practice area. Civil Division Judge Sosnay (8)uuuuuuuuu (I) uuuuuuuu Judge VanGrunsven (9) – C 404 von Briesen & Roper held a ribbon cutting Judge White (1)uuuuuuuuu (K)uuuuuuuu Judge Sankovitz (29) – C 500 ceremony on the morning of Tuesday, May (Presently unassigned)uuuuuu (E)uuuuuuuu Judge Foley (14) – C 403 29 to open its new office space and thank Judge Siefert (31)uuuuuuuu (J) uuuuuuuu Judge Noonan (31) – C 414 those who made it possible.
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