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  1. Now if this were for stealing from a client then a censure would be in order, but stealing from a lawyer, that's just short of a capital offense. In nature scavengers rarely eat their own, except if they smell blood.
  2. Nice catch on Justice Ziegler's bragging.
  3. Double standard. As a victim of attorney misconduct where the issues did involve fraudulent billing it was interesting that merely adjusting the bill was enough to elude discipline.

    How the legal community self polices itself is a mysterious thing. Unlike truth in sentencing which has cast in stone sentencing rules lawyer discipline is whatever you think it is.

    Both the OLR and this supreme court both passed and failed in the discipline of the Doe case attorney. In the aftermath have been asked many times to speak publicly on the issues and participate in legal education on lawyer regulation. Although did decline the facts of the lawyer regulation issues have been used in legal education. Just sit in the back the room as a fake student to listen. The students have no idea I am the victim in that case. It never fails its always the issue of wondering what the victim was like. Does that matter?

    When you don't have that face of the victim or attorney involved its amazing how the facts take less priority.
  4. Folks, these are Dane County lawyers. That says it all. They will take good care of each other, and Judge Shirley will see a minor, miniscule slap on the wrist occurs.
    Move along folks, there's nothing to see...
  5. I guess the same slogan for Progressives is the same for Dane county lawyers. If you can't steal from us, how can we expect you to steal for us.



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