Attorney Gregory S. Mager has been selected to serve on the State Bar of Wisconsin Family Law Section’s Board of Directors from July 2010 to July 2013. Attorney Mager is a shareholder with O’Neil Cannon, where he concentrates his practice on family law. He has served as Editor in Chief of the Wisconsin Journal of […]
In Wisconsin, any person of sound mind who is at least eighteen years old is presumed capable of making a will. A will should be created voluntarily and express how the testator desires his or her property to be distributed upon death. However, when another person’s influence over the testator becomes so strong it overpowers […]
The below article, discussing a decision of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in a case being handled by Attorney Dean Laing of our firm, was published in the June 28, 2010 edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Our client, Lake Beulah Management District, was successful in the appeal.
On June 16, 2010 the Wisconsin Court of Appeals issued a significant decision in a case of first impression being handled by our firm. The case has a long history. In 2005, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (the “DNR”) issued a permit to the Village of East Troy (the “Village”) authorizing the Village to […]
Effective July 1, 2005, the Wisconsin law requires all mortgage brokers to use mortgage broker agreements and consumer disclosure statements in a form prescribed by the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (“WDFI”) with their consumer clients. See Wis. Stat. § 224.79. The WDFI has stated that “no change to the wording of either form is […]
In Pella Corporation v. Saltzman, No. 09-8025, 2010 WL 1994653 (7th Cir. May 20, 2010), plaintiffs alleged that the Pella aluminum-clad wood “ProLine” casement window contained a design defect that permitted the entry of water which accelerated the rotting of the wood. Pella has sold over six million of the windows over the last 18 […]
O’Neil Cannon Attorney Timothy Caprez has recently been re-appointed to serve as Co-Chair of the Health Law Section of the Milwaukee Bar Association (“MBA”) for the upcoming 2010-2011 term. The upcoming term will be Attorney Caprez’s third at the helm of the MBA’s Health Law Section, which is focused on providing legal education resources and […]
The Illinois Chamber of Commerce has just published its Illinois Employers’ Management Handbook, a first edition, eighteen chapter resource edited by Attorney Joseph Gumina. O’Neil Cannon is one of three law firms that contributed to the handbook, which covers a wide range of employment law matters in which the firm’s employment law practice regularly counsels […]
The 2010 edition of the Annual Survey of Wisconsin Law published by the State Bar of Wisconsin CLE Books has recently been released for circulation and this year’s work includes another contribution by Attorneys Dean P. Laing and Patrick G. McBride in the area of evidence. The Annual Survey reviews significant Wisconsin judicial and legislative […]
On May 20, 2010, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling dismissing Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (“Nissan Japan”) from a price-fixing class action venued in Milwaukee County for lack of personal jurisdiction under Wisconsin’s long-arm statute, Wis. Stat. § 801.05. The class action involved anti-trust claims against various automobile manufacturers and their […]
