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Spring 2012 Volume 1 Spring 2012 Volume 1 The First Annual Milwaukee Justice Center Campaign 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 Spring 2012 • Volume 1 5 Member News 5 New Members In This Issue: 6 Message From the President 5 Milwaukee Justice Center Expands Hours of Operation 6 Volunteer Spotlight 7 CLE Calendar 8 MBA Memorial Service 11 The Reel Law 8 In a Time of Ever Shrinking Resources for Those in Need, the Milwaukee Justice Center Bucks the Trend by Honorable Carl Ashley, Chair, MBA Community Relations Committee 9 Hizzoner, Esq.: Milwaukee Attorneys Who Have Served as Mayor by Attorney Hannah C. Dugan Be Part of the Messenger Please send your articles, editorials, or 10 Recall in Wisconsin: a Historical Perspective anecdotes to [email protected] or by Attorney Ann S. Jacobs, Domnitz & Skemp mail them to Editor, Milwaukee Bar Association, 424 East Wells Street, 12 Judges Night 2012 / MBA Judicial Forum Milwaukee, WI 53202. We look forward to hearing from you! 14 MBA Seeks Nominations for Annual Awards If you would like to participate on the 15 The Honorable Patrick T. Sheedy: an Appreciation Messenger Committee, we have seats by Victor Manian, Reserve Circuit Judge available. Please contact James Temmer, [email protected]. 16 Reconstructed and Possibly Imagined Minutes of Special Meeting of Weed Commission (a single member governmental unit) by Attorney Douglas H. Frazer, DeWitt Ross & Stevens 17 Out of Sight, Out of Mind – Not Out of Pocket Mission The MBA Messenger is published by Attorneys Steven J. Teplinsky Statement quarterly by the Milwaukee Bar and Mitchell W. Quick, Michael Best Established in 1858, the mission of the Milwaukee Association, Inc., 424 East Wells Street, & Friedrich Bar Association is to serve the interests of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202. lawyers, judges and the people of Milwaukee Telephone: 414-274-6760 19 The Honorable Dale E. Ihlenfeldt: County by working to: E-mail: [email protected] a Common Touch • Promote the professional interests of the by Honorable James E. Shapiro, U.S. local bench and bar The opinions stated herein are not Bankruptcy Judge • Encourage collegiality, public service necessarily those of the Milwaukee and professionalism on the part of the Bar Association, Inc., or any of its 20 Comprehensive Driver Cell Phone lawyers of Southeastern Wisconsin directors, officers, or employees. The Ban Unlikely • Improve access to justice for those living information presented in this publication by Attorneys Catherine A. La Fleur and working in Milwaukee County should not be construed to be and Colin J. Casper • Support the courts of Milwaukee County formal legal advice or the formation in the administration of justice of a lawyer-client relationship. All 21 MBA Judicial Poll — 2012 manuscripts submitted will be reviewed and for possible publication. The editors • Increase public reserve the right to edit all material for awareness of the style and length. Advertising and general crucial role that information concerning this publication the law plays 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 The Milwaukee Justice of the MJC depends on the financial support Michael J. Cohen, President Center is the MBA’s of the lawyers who live and practice in our signature community community. Most of us don’t particularly Charles H. Barr, President-Elect service project. The enjoy asking for charitable contributions, Beth E. Hanan, Vice President MBA Foundation, and I’m no exception. I’d much rather wax Patricia A. Hintz, Secretary/Treasurer charitable arm of the poetic or droll in this space (or, to be more MBA, will conduct precise, imagine I’m doing so) about any Directors t h e F i r s t A n n u a l number of other subjects. The business Paul E. Benson Milwaukee Justice at hand, however, is simply too urgent to Michael Best & Friedrich Charles Barr, Editor Center Campaign ignore. This can’t wait until next year. Marcia F. Drame March 19-30, under the rubric of “Access to Therefore, I join President Mike Cohen (see Northwestern Mutual Justice for All.” In this issue of the Messenger (page 8), Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge page 6) and the MBA Board of Directors in Honorable Timothy G. Dugan Carl Ashley succinctly describes the MJC’s appealing for your contribution to the MJC Milwaukee County Circuit Court mission, why our community needs the Campaign in an amount appropriate to your Maria L. Kreiter MJC, and how it is addressing that need. The personal circumstances. Donating couldn’t Godfrey & Kahn campaign materials you’ll receive, as well as be easier. No pledges are involved. Simply go Susan E. Lovern the MJC’s website cited in Judge Ashley’s to www.milwbar.org, click on “Milwaukee von Briesen & Roper article, provide more details. Justice Center,” and use your credit card; or send a check to the MBA Foundation, David G. Peterson As Judge Ashley notes, many thousands who Inc., 424 East Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren don’t qualify under the economic guidelines 53202. Please give not just to support the Thomas H. Reed for legal aid nonetheless can’t begin to most important MBA project of our times, State Public Defender, Milwaukee afford private counsel. And due to the but also to reaffirm the most fundamental Criminal Trial Office severe budgetary pressures on our legal aid premise of our profession: that everyone Honorable Maxine Aldridge White organizations, more than 80% of those eligible deserves meaningful access to justice, Milwaukee County Circuit Court for free legal services can’t actually obtain regardless of economic circumstances. Andrew J. Wronski them. One or both parties appear without Foley & Lardner legal representation in five of six divorce This spring edition of the Messenger has a cases. In paternity, support, and maintenance little bit of everything. Mindful of current MBA Staff actions, 99% of the cases proceed with at least events, we have a brief history of recall James D. Temmer, Executive Director one of the affected persons unrepresented. elections in Wisconsin, and an appraisal of the National Transportation Safety Board’s Katy Borowski, Director of Projects The recent State Bar of Wisconsin Access to Justice Survey found that more than 30,000 recommended ban of all driver cell phone Sabrina Nunley, Director of Continuing economically disadvantaged Milwaukee use. Our “hard law” article—courtesy of Legal Education families face at least two serious legal Michael Best, as always—analyzes a recent Dorothy Protz, Accountant problems every year, and 80% of them do so Seventh Circuit decision on employer Molly Staab, Communication Specialist without any legal help. liability for overtime work. Hannah Dugan, our resident legal historian, reviews the Britt Wegner, Director, Lawyer These are the folks who turn to the MJC for lawyers who have served as mayors of Referral & Information Service help navigating the legal maze. Although it Milwaukee. We have fond remembrances of Yvonne Wittlieff, Office Manager has been in operation less than three years, two long-serving judges, Patrick Sheedy and the MJC has already made significant inroads Dale Ihlenfeldt, who have left us. We reveal MJC Staff on the pro se epidemic, and with expanded the results of the MBA’s Judicial Poll. And, Dawn Caldart, Executive Director hours in 2012 (see page 5), we can expect on the lighter side, regular contributor Doug Ayame Metzger, Legal Director an even more positive impact going forward. Frazier illuminates the solemn proceedings Based on 2011 performance, for every dollar of an obscure, albeit peculiarly efficient, Contact Information spent on the MJC by the MBA Foundation municipal agency. Milwaukee Bar Association, Inc. the community received more than eight 424 East Wells Street dollars of value in the form of volunteer We hope you enjoy this issue of the Milwaukee, WI 53202 legal assistance. On a national level, this Messenger, and we thank you for ignoring Phone: 414-274-6760 impact has not gone unnoticed: the MJC was the press of business long enough to peruse Fax: 414-274-6765 honored with the inaugural Partnerships for our humble publication. We close on the www.milwbar.org Success Award at the 2011 American Bar optimistic note we’ve sounded in every Association Annual Meeting. spring edition since our “glossy” era began: somewhere, thousands of miles away, Notwithstanding its success, however, the pitchers and catchers have reported. truth is that the MJC’s continued existence — C.B. is far from a sure thing. Simply put, survival 4 Spring 2012 Welcome New MBA Members! Member Nicholas Anderson, Quarles & Brady Travis S. Laird, Godfrey & Kahn Jeffrey M. Barrett, Michael Best & Molly Lawson, Michael Best & Friedrich News Friedrich M. Scott LeBlanc, Godfrey & Kahn Ricky C. Benjamin, Whyte Hirschboeck Timothy T. Lecher, Reinhart Boerner Van Dudek Deuren Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren Danielle M. Bergner, Michael Best & Brian J. N. Marstall, Michael Best & announced the addition of shareholder Martin Friedrich Friedrich P. Tierney to the firm’s Michael L. Bohn, Whyte Hirschboeck Geoffrey Misfeldt, Kohler & Hart Employee Benefits Practice. Dudek Jeffrey A. Morris, Reinhart Boerner Van The firm also announced James M. Burrows, Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren the addition of Kenny W. Deuren Daniel C.W. Narvey, Godfrey & Kahn Hoeschen to its Intellectual Martin P. Tierney Thomas G. Cannon, Legal Aid Society of J. Bushnell Nielsen, Reinhart Boerner Van P r o p e r t y Milwaukee Deuren Practice, and Douglas J.
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