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Today on Rising, White House pulls back Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R-N.Y) nomination for U.N. ambassador. Vice President JD Vance slams Jewish Insider and its editor, Josh Kraushaar. Fox News's Bret Baier sits down with Elon musk and DOGE members. Federal authorities arrest an alleged leader of MS-13 gang, in Prince William county Virginia. Former Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Perry Pendley, weighs in on President Trump's order to relocate certain government agencies out of Washington, D.C. Bryna Godar, staff attorney for the State Democracy Research Initiative at University of Wisconsin Law School, explains what's at stake in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) snaps at a British journalist. Niall and Amber discuss conservative and liberal women's outlook on marriage. All this and more. #Rising Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of 1050 Bascom, we were pleased to welcome back Erin Barbato, Director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School to talk about what many political observers have described as a crisis at the border. In an interview recorded one week prior to the 2024 presidential election, we asked Prof. Barbato about why the immigration issue was front and center for both the Trump and Harris campaigns. We also asked Prof. Barbato about potential changes in immigration policy under a second Trump presidency. We learned a lot from our conversation, and hope you will too.

On this episode of Ruled by Reason, Emily Bridges of the Food and Agriculture Impact Project has a wide-ranging discussion with antitrust scholar Peter Carstensen about the role of information exchange in restricting competition in agricultural markets, focusing on how the DOJ's case against Agri-Stats addresses that threat. After covering the oligopolistic nature of many agricultural markets (2:45), the two do a deep dive on why information exchange can be so harmful to competition (11:04). Professor Carstensen explains how the law on information exchange has evolved and how that history has led to unfortunate ambiguity about the applicable standard (17:10). Professor Carstensen then explains why information exchange has been a particular problem in agricultural markets. He describes how recent cases in this area, including both private actions and the DOJ's case against the information aggregator, Agri-Stats, can play an important role in clarifying and strengthening enforcement against unjustified information exchanges (27:20). The discussion concludes with some thoughts about what we can expect from current trends in litigation over illegal information exchanges (48:50). Emily Bridges is a Research Attorney for the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law, working with the Food and Agriculture Impact Project. Emily received a JD and an LL.M. in Agricultural and Food Law from the University of Arkansas School of Law. The Food and Agriculture Impact Project works with faculty, students, organizations and other educational institutions to provide policy and legal research, analysis and education, supporting the farm and food community with educational resources. Peter Carstensen is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a Senior Fellow and Advisory Board Member at AAI. He previously served in the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice. Professor Carstensen received the 2024 Alfred E. Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement, presented by AAI in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field.

Kristine Cherek, GenX, joins Yo to discuss her book, Tread Loudly: Call Out the Bullsh*t and Fight for Equality in the Workplace. Kristine Cherek is an attorney, former law professor, writer, and philanthropist. Kristine began her career practicing commercial real estate law at an international law firm. By the age of 33, she was the general counsel of the nation's largest developer of healthcare facilities. After she left the practice of law, she taught for eight years at a law school in Florida. She now focuses on writing, speaking, and advocating for gender equality in the workplace. Her philanthropic work centers on equity and access in higher education, arts education, food security, and animal welfare. This is Part 1 of a 2-Part series. Here are the topics we covered in the series:    Work friends and their importance.  Having it all (not!) and Perfectionism. Beliefs. Elle Woods.  Data (The real issue: normalized gender bias). Quitting is not failure. Here are the three takeaways: 1.   We can't have it all and trying to be perfect robs us of our happiness. Others that we think ‘have it all' really don't. 2.   We can begin to change our lives by changing a few beliefs within ourselves. Be determined. Be ambitious. Believe in yourself and take chances, just like Elle Woods did! 3.   Quitting is not failure but can be the only way to achieve success in the long term.   As Mentioned: Her book: Tread Loudly: Call Out the Bullsh*t and Fight for Equality in the Workplace   More About Kristine: Kristine earned her B.A. from Marquette University, and her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School. She resides with her husband and their two senior rescue cats.   Events: Kristine is currently doing book signings and events at various locations around the country. Follow her on Instagram for the latest updates!   How to Reach Kristine: https://kristinecherek.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tread.loudly.2023 IG: treadloudly, kcherek TikTok: treadloudly   How to Reach Yo Canny:  Our website: www.girltaketheleadpod.com  You can send a message or voicemail there. We'd love to hear from you! email: yo@yocanny.com   FB group: Girl, Take the Lead https://www.facebook.com/groups/272025931481748/?ref=share IG: yocanny (Yo) YouTube LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yocanny/

The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe is making kiosks available in key locations so tribal members can access important information for their judicial and law enforcement systems. It's part of a multi-phase effort to make their official procedures more transparent and accessible. They plan on ultimately providing digital access to their entire law library, court decisions and other documents that improve citizens' understanding and engagement with government functions. We'll talk with tribal representatives from Saint Regis and other tribes putting a priority on transparency and openness. GUESTS Danielle Mayberry (Western Shoshone), principal law clerk at St Regis Mohawk Tribal Courts and a Western Shoshone tribal court judge Michael Williams (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin), codification attorney with the Open Law Library and student at University of Wisconsin Law School Bonnie Shucha, associate dean and director of the law library at the University Wisconsin Law School David Greisen, CEO and co-founder of the Open Law Library

“You're going to have to be defending people, sometimes publicly, for saying stuff that you find abhorrent and that you hate. But that's the gig.” says Alex Morey, director of campus rights advocacy at FIRE, on this week's episode of The Syllabus. Mark Oppenheimer digs deep with free speech defender extraordinaire Alex Morey, as they discuss the chilling effect of fear and censorship on college campuses—and what the law really has to say. Guest Bio: Alex Morey is an attorney and a journalist who leads FIRE's Campus Rights Advocacy program, a team of attorneys and advocates. Morey is a member of the First Amendment Lawyers Association. She has a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School and a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and has trained at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She attended the University of Arizona in her hometown of Tucson, majoring in journalism and French and graduating with honors. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Madagascar, where she taught English in rural, underserved schools. Stay informed about this podcast and all of AJU's latest programs and offerings by subscribing to our mailing list HERE If you'd like to support AJU and this podcast, please consider donating to us at aju.edu/donate

Danielle M. Schroder is a partner in the Madison office at MacGillis Wiemer, LLC. She practices exclusively in personal injury law, representing individuals who have been injured in car crashes and other circumstances that were not their fault. Danielle has fully committed her legal practice to helping her clients recover from hardship and ensuring they get a fair shake when pursuing injury claims with insurance companies. She has successfully resolved various injury cases including car crashes, construction accidents, trip and falls, slip and falls, defective products and more. Danielle also serves as a guardian ad litem for minors who have been injured. Danielle is an officer and board member of the Wisconsin Association for Justice (WAJ), the state's largest voluntary bar organization whose mission is to promote a fair and effective civil justice system by providing education and support for the trial bar profession and by working with government entities to advocate for the legal rights of all Wisconsin citizens. In 2022, Danielle served as Chair of the WAJ's Women's Caucus. Danielle graduated magna cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2011. During law school, she was a member of the mock trial team and the Wisconsin International Law Journal. She also was a member and coach of the Wisconsin Vis Moot Court team, which traveled to Vienna, Austria to compete against other law students from around the world. Danielle cares deeply about the rights of her clients and works hard to ensure they are well-represented both in and out of the courtroom. She values her relationships with clients and understands that effective advocacy requires a keen command of both the facts and law associated with each unique case. Danielle has been recognized as a SuperLawyers “Rising Star” and a “Top 40 Under 40” with the National Trial Lawyers organization. Danielle was born and raised in Wisconsin. Outside the office, she can be found with her husband, Mark, and their three kids, Gabby, Faith and Bryce. She enjoys running, biking, and snowboarding – just about any activity that gets her outside and her body moving. She and her family attend Blackhawk Church in Middleton. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-schroder-2b9ab536/ MacGillis Wiemer, LLC: https://www.macgilliswiemer.com/

Danielle M. Schroder is a partner in the Madison office at MacGillis Wiemer, LLC. She practices exclusively in personal injury law, representing individuals who have been injured in car crashes and other circumstances that were not their fault. Danielle has fully committed her legal practice to helping her clients recover from hardship and ensuring they get a fair shake when pursuing injury claims with insurance companies. She has successfully resolved various injury cases including car crashes, construction accidents, trip and falls, slip and falls, defective products and more. Danielle also serves as a guardian ad litem for minors who have been injured. Danielle is an officer and board member of the Wisconsin Association for Justice (WAJ), the state's largest voluntary bar organization whose mission is to promote a fair and effective civil justice system by providing education and support for the trial bar profession and by working with government entities to advocate for the legal rights of all Wisconsin citizens. In 2022, Danielle served as Chair of the WAJ's Women's Caucus. Danielle graduated magna cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2011. During law school, she was a member of the mock trial team and the Wisconsin International Law Journal. She also was a member and coach of the Wisconsin Vis Moot Court team, which traveled to Vienna, Austria to compete against other law students from around the world. Danielle cares deeply about the rights of her clients and works hard to ensure they are well-represented both in and out of the courtroom. She values her relationships with clients and understands that effective advocacy requires a keen command of both the facts and law associated with each unique case. Danielle has been recognized as a SuperLawyers “Rising Star” and a “Top 40 Under 40” with the National Trial Lawyers organization. Danielle was born and raised in Wisconsin. Outside the office, she can be found with her husband, Mark, and their three kids, Gabby, Faith and Bryce. She enjoys running, biking, and snowboarding – just about any activity that gets her outside and her body moving. She and her family attend Blackhawk Church in Middleton. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-schroder-2b9ab536/ MacGillis Wiemer, LLC: https://www.macgilliswiemer.com/

Join us for an engaging conversation with Rebecca Scheller, Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid at the University of Wisconsin Law School. In this interview, we delve into her journey into admissions, share valuable application tips, and explore the ways the university supports first-generation BIPOC students. Discover the unique aspects of the Wisconsin Law School program and gain insights into the application process. Don't miss out on this informative discussion!

Laura Neuman is a Senior Advisor with the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She leads the implementation of the center's Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign.Prior to joining the Carter Center in 1999, she was staff attorney at Legal Action of Wisconsin and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School.The journey from a law practice assisting disadvantaged groups to working at the Carter Center [3:05]The mandate of the Carter Center [4:18]The access to information legislation assessment tool — what it does and how it works [5:36]Focusing on gender inequality in access to information [8:15]Barriers for women seeking access to government-held information [13:40]Reaching women in an intentional way with information that can help them in their day-to-day lives [16:17]Statistics on the impact of improved access to information for women [18:41]Expansion of programming to cities in North America [23:28]Battling misinformation with trusted information and recognizing the digital divide [30:45]Resources:Inform Women, Transform Lives (The Carter Center's campaign to raise awareness of women's right to information) Demystifying the FOI process (Info Matters episode)Trust and truth: Navigating the age of misinformation (Info Matters episode)File an appeal and pay fees online (IPC service)IPC Strategic Priorities 2021-2025Privacy and Transparency in a Modern Government(IPC resources)Info Matters is a podcast about people, privacy, and access to information hosted by Patricia Kosseim, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. We dive into conversations with people from all walks of life and hear stories about the access and privacy issues that matter most to them. If you enjoyed the podcast, leave us a rating or a review. Have an access to information or privacy topic you want to learn more about? Interested in being a guest on the show? Send us a tweet @IPCinfoprivacy or email us at podcast@ipc.on.ca

On this episode of 1050 Bascom, we were happy in late May to welcome back Erin Barbato, Director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School. As the Trump Administration's Title 42 immigration policy came to an end, we invited Erin to tell us about what Title 42 was, why it ended in spring, and what this transition might mean for U.S. immigration policy. As always we enjoyed talking with Erin and learned so much.

A remotely-recorded podcast episode with Yaron Nili (SSRN; Law Repository), Professor of Law and Smith-Rowe Fellow in Business Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Professor Nili is an expert in corporate law, governance, and business. His new article “Side Letter Governance” is forthcoming in the Washington University Law Review. This newest article focuses on a standard but difficult to study practice in private equity known as “side letters.” The article examines how side letters have evolved and how they are viewed in the industry now and what role they play in dealing with investors.

Kate and Leah host Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices Rebecca Dallet and Jill Karofsky in a live show at the University of Wisconsin Law School. On April 4th, Wisconsin voters will decide who will fill an open state Supreme Court seat, which could give liberals a majority on the high court for the first time since 2008. What issues are on the table? Abortion and voter rights, to name a few. The hosts also recap recent Supreme Court arguments.Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Threads, and Bluesky

An interview with Professor of Law and Director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center Richard Monette at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Monette discusses the recent (Nov. 2022) SCOTUS case Brackeen v. Haaland. This case focused on the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978's placement preferences for child placement proceedings involving an "Indian child".

Franciska Coleman is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. In this episode we speak about assumptions encoded in words people choose to use and why many nations around the world signed a "covenant" that addresses hate speech yet the United States never did. Coleman also discusses, among other things, the social regulation of speech as an example of cancel culture or accountability culture and what these terms imply when used in reference to speech regulation. 

Mike Scott is a lawyer, former police chief, researcher and professor, and training facilitator.  Michael S. Scott is the director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing and a clinical professor in the School of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. He chairs the judging committee for the Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing.  He leads the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing (POP) at ASU. Scott was formerly a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.  He served as the first chief of police in Lauderhill, Florida; special assistant to the chief of St. Louis, Missouri Metropolitan Police Department; director of administration of the Fort Pierce, Florida, Police Department; legal assistant to the police commissioner of the New York City Police Department; and a police officer in the Madison, Wisconsin, Police Department. He was a senior researcher at the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) in Washington, D.C. In 1996, he received PERF's Gary P. Hayes Award for innovation and leadership in policing. Scott holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.   We talked about the history of POP, the evolution of problem-oriented policing, and the state of policing today.  A wide-ranging and illuminating chat with Mike Scott on The CopDoc Podcast.   Contact us: copdoc.podcast@gmail.com Website: www.copdocpodcast.comIf you'd like to arrange for facilitated training, or consulting, or talk about steps you might take to improve your leadership and help in your quest for promotion, contact Steve at stephen.morreale@gmail.com

An interview with Assistant Professor of Law Nina Varsava at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Varsava discusses her forthcoming article, "Precedent, Reliance, and Dobbs". The article examines treatment of stare decisis in the 2022 majority Dobbs opinion focusing on its approach to reliance. The article argues that the justices' refusal to recognize the reliance interest at stake is inconsistent with the Court's previously prevailing stare decisis doctrine and is also mistaken as a matter of first principles, undermining basic rule of law values.

ALSO $500 GRAND PRIZE WINNER   Nicholas L. Chiarkas was the Director of Wisconsin's State Public Defender Agency for 22-years. Under his leadership, the agency received several awards for excellence. He was the founder of Justice Without Borders, was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, and a visiting lecturer...

In this episode, Kathryn welcomes Grant Sovern, a Partner of Quarles & Brady LLP, to talk about his area of concentration: Employment immigration. Grant recalls how he shifted to immigration law and describes the challenges of working as an immigration lawyer. Additionally, Grant shares his work with Afghan refugees and where the immigration law stands on this. Who's The Guest? Grant Sovern is the chair of Quarles & Brady's national business immigration practice. He works primarily on managing the employment immigration issues for employers and employees, specifically, nonimmigrant visas such as the H-1B, L-1, O-1, TN, and immigrant visas (permanent residence) through employment means such as outstanding researcher, extraordinary ability, and labor certification. He also counsels companies on developing, maintaining, and defending immigration compliance programs. Grant speaks on panels and at seminars on immigration issues affecting employers and employees across the country and has served as an Adjunct Professor, teaching Immigration Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Episode Resources https://www.quarles.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantsovern  Episode Highlights Why Grant Sovern decided to go to law school The process of shifting to immigration law Grant's work with Afghan refugees The challenges of working as an immigration lawyer The legalities of the Afghan refugees: Where the immigration law stands on it? Episode Sponsored By https://pli.edu/taxstrategies  Subscribe, Share, and Review To get the next episode subscribe with your favorite podcast player. Subscribe with Apple Podcasts Follow on Spotify Leave a review on Apple Podcasts

Before we jump into this episode, we wanted to let you know that it is longer than our usual episodes, and we talk about some heavy stuff in this one. In fact, this might be the type of episode where you take a couple of breaks while listening, and one that you send to your partner to check out. Today, we'll be talking about what would happen if we should die, which is a topic that could take a while for you to process, because as you'll hear, there is a lot to consider here. Our expert guest today is attorney Eric Christoffersen, who has been with the law firm Grams & Christoffersen for 13 years and counting. He started as a law student, clerking for Founder, David F. Grams who established the firm nearly 30 years ago. After graduating law school, cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School, he became an associate attorney and then later a shareholder. Now with 11+ years of practice experience he is the Managing Shareholder of Grams & Christoffersen, S.C., leading a great team to serve their clients into the future.We think this episode with Eric is a really important one, and we discuss something that a lot of people will go through in their lifetimes. We feel that thinking about the future is worth having an entire episode on, and we hope you get a lot from this interview with Eric, who was in charge of helping Amy plan for her future. If you found this episode informative and helpful, we would love it if you shared it with your friends and loved ones, and let us know your biggest takeaway by tagging @gcestatelaw and @herselfpodcast on Instagram! MEET Eric: https://www.instagram.com/gcestatelaw/ Sponsor: 10% off at BETTERHELP: http://betterhelp.com/herself Sponsor: 20% off at VUORI: https://vuoriclothing.com/herself Links & Resources:Eric's Company's Website & Email Their Instagram & FacebookLet's connect!HERSELF SHOP: https://herself-podcast-favorites.myshopify.com HERSELF PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/herselfpodcast HERSELF INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/herselfpodcast MEET AMY: http://instagram.com/ameskiefer MEET ABBY: http://instagram.com/abbyrosegreen

Naja chats with Mediator Charles Robinson, JD about single fatherhood, the practice of intentional peace, and how meditation changes the shape of your brain. About Charles: Charles Robinson has extensive training and experience in Labor/Employment Law, and Mediation. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Law School, he is a former Administrative Law Judge, and Special Master for the Milwaukee County Circuit Courts. He has managed disputes for universities, prisons, schools, and governmental agencies. He also provides training workshops and seminars for schools, businesses, and community groups. His mediation practice has an emphasis in Family Court matters for more than three decades. Over the course of his professional career, Charles has been an adjunct professor teaching, part-time, in the Schools of Human Services, and Continuing Professional Services. While teaching with a commitment to transform socioeconomic conditions and violence in his community, he has been an active volunteer and community leader. His work includes creating block-clubs; serving as District Commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America; providing mediation training for the police department; facilitating peace-circles for block-clubs; facilitating listening-circles for youth and police officers; and serving as a program leader with Landmark Worldwide, a personal and professional training and development corporation. To watch this episode on your favorite podcast streaming platform, visit https://youtu.be/5pMZCc8ykwA 

This week, Simone examines some of the gaps in our campaign finance laws that have allowed foreign entities to spend money to influence our elections.She focuses on a recent story that took place in Maine, speaking with two state legislators who introduced bills to combat foreign interference in their state – a bigger concern than most would expect, especially considering the cause of their concern comes not from a hostile foreign government, but from one of our closest allies.Guests:Aaron McKean serves as Legal Counsel for State and Local Reform at Campaign Legal Center, working with state and local partners to develop and advocate for campaign finance reforms that lift the voices of voters and lead to a more transparent democracy. Prior to joining CLC, Aaron was a legislative attorney at the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, a nonpartisan legislative service agency, drafting legislation for members of the Wisconsin Legislature. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Azerbaijan from 2009 to 2011. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Senator Richard A. Bennett a former President of the Maine Senate, has 14 years of public service in the Senate and House. He has represented western Maine since 2020 and earlier for four terms in the Maine Senate, from 1996 to 2004. From 1990 to 1994 he served two terms in the Maine House of Representatives. He has earned a reputation as a reformer and staunch advocate for fiscal discipline, balanced budgets, term limits, governmental accountability, and Maine's precious outdoors heritage. Senator Bennett is a Maine native and has family roots in Oxford County going back over two centuries.Kyle Bailey is a former state legislator and social entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience managing candidate campaigns, ballot measure campaigns, and start-up nonprofits. Kyle managed the ballot campaign that won the nation's first statewide ranked choice voting law in Maine in 2016, and the 2018 ballot measure campaign that protected the voter-approved law from legislative repeal. In 2012, he led in-state fundraising for the 2012 campaign that won the nation's first statewide ballot measure campaign for the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. Links:“Maine Misses Chance to Fight Foreign Election Interference” (Campaign Legal Center)“Maine judge quashes Hydro-Quebec power line plan for now” (Marketplace)“Mainers Again Flex Their Independence to Protect Their Vote” (The American Leader)Protect Maine ElectionsAbout CLCDemocracy Decoded is a production of Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization which advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every American's right to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic process. You can visit us on the web at campaignlegalcenter.org.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Yaron Nili, Associate Professor of Law and Smith-Rowe Faculty Fellow in Business Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Professor Nili is a  co-author of an article recently published in the Yale Law Journal entitled “The Corporate Governance GAP.”

ALSO $500 GRAND PRIZE WINNER Nicholas L. Chiarkas was the Director of Wisconsin's State Public Defender Agency for 22-years. Under his leadership, the agency received several awards for excellence. He was the founder of Justice Without Borders, was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, and a visiting lecturer in...

How fortunate we are to play host to Mr. Mark Richards, Kyle Rittenhouse's lead defense attorney in what many will believe to be the watershed moment in modern America's promise to each of us the due process of law.  We are barely a couple of weeks removed from the jury verdict in State v. Rittenhouse, the widely publicized case that considered the events as they unfolded in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 25, 2020, amid the larger, burnished silhouette of a summer marked by widespread protests symbolic of the agitated republic America today remains. Mark very generously agreed to sit with us for Law and Legitimacy to bring the attorney's voice to the forefront and to shed light on various aspects of his representation—some top-of-mind in the public consciousness, others that until now lay dormant.  We began as we always do here by asking Mark to talk about his life before his engagement as Rittenhouse's attorney of record. Mark is Wisconsin born and bred. A graduate of both the University of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin Law School. To date, Mark has nearly 125 jury trials under his belt as a defense attorney.  Mark and I talk about the nature of the law in Wisconsin. Some of you may find our discussion of the "trial tax" familiar from previous conversations and episodes. Mark talks about his inspiration in the law, I ask him to discuss the case that most broke his heart, and together we lay coordinates for our discussion of the Rittenhouse saga.  Through our conversation you will learn not only how Mark became Rittenhouse's lead attorney, but why Mark was indeed the best man for the job.  We cover it all: The early involvement of attorneys John Pierce and Lin Wood; Kyle's extradition to Kenosha County jail; Mark's assessments of Judge Schrader and the prosecution; The role of the jury consultant and the three (3) mock juries utilized; The prosecution's challenge of Kyle's 5th amendment right to silence; Character and propensity evidence in the face of motion(s) in limine; Judge Schrader's courtroom policy and the "complaining witnesses" issue; The particulars of the firearms charge and its dismissal;  Obtaining the acquittal; The give-and-take of Tucker Carlson's support Of course, I could not bring this interview to a close without asking Mark, "Is Kyle a white supremacist?" We are humbled and honored to present this episode to the world, for Mr. Mark Richards is indeed a lawyer's lawyer. There is little to plug but his website.  Thank you for sharing this episode with a friend, and thank you for rating us 63 stars and leaving a glowing review. Follow this link to access our socials and please follow and interact with us there. Mike is a millennial, so that sort of thing really gets him. Join me on Patreon and assimilate into the ranks of your fellow contrarians, free thinkers, and unafraid.  Finally, we thank Kevin Brien for his work on the intro and outro music. Go give his catalogue a listen. 

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, five U.S. jurisdictions opted to suspend their July 2020 bar exams. Instead, these jurisdictions granted licensure to new attorneys through "diploma privilege.” That's the practice of admitting new attorneys to the state bar, and allowing them to practice law, contingent on their graduation from an ABA-accredited law school only. It does not require taking and passing a bar exam. Wisconsin is currently the only state to permanently offer diploma privilege, and it is only available to graduates of its two in-state law schools, Marquette University Law School and University of Wisconsin Law School. Critics of the bar exam have long argued that a timed test, based on short-term memorization of how to apply a vast amount legal rules, is not a true measure of legal competency. And now, with a string of remote testing snafus during the pandemic, many in the legal community are asking whether diploma privilege is a better option. Standing in the way of these fundamental changes are many state supreme courts and bar associations who have authority over who can practice law in their jurisdictions. Additionally, those opposed to diploma privilege argue that, whether it's accounting, medicine, or law, licensure exams are there for a good reason—to protect the public from incompetent practitioners. In this second episode of our podcast series on the bar exam, [Un]Common Law will explore the arguments both for and against diploma privilege. In this episode we speak with: Sam Skolnik, Washington-based legal industry reporter for Bloomberg Law. Efrain Hudnell, a 2020 graduate of the Seattle University School of Law, now an attorney with King County prosecuting attorney's office in Seattle. Daniel Tokaji, Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School. David Wiggins, retired justice of the Iowa Supreme Court. David Krutz, managing partner in the Milwaukee office of Michael Best and Friedrich.

An interview with the Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School, David Trubek and the Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA Law, Richard Abel. 
Profs Trubek and Abel discuss their recent symposium, “The Short Happy Life of the Yale Program in Law and Modernization: From the Cold War to Comparative Legal Sociology and Critical Legal Studies.” Profs Trubek and Abel were the main professors managing this program at Yale Law School and they talk about each of their research interests and how the program came about and its goals and ideas.

Leslie Kuhn-Thayer is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin Law School. During law school, Leslie worked with the Wisconsin Innocence Project. Learn more about the Wisconsin Innocence Project here: https://law.wisc.edu/fjr/clinicals/ip/ Leslie served as a judicial law clerk directly out of law school and again several years later when she became a career clerk. Learn more about clerking here: https://media.law.wisc.edu/m/nmjkn/judicialclerkshiphandbook_000.pdfAnd here: https://abaforlawstudents.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/FederalLawClerks.pdfLeslie currently serves as Pro Bono Counsel at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago. Learn more about Sidley's commitment to pro bono here: https://www.sidley.com/en/us/probonolanding/   

Brian Kaas is President at CMFG Ventures the M&A and corporate venture capital fund for Cuna Mutual, and is Board Member at multiple #insurtechs. Brian is leveraging his insurance law background to lead the deals that will help drive the industry forward. ✅Brian sees insurtech as still 5 to 7 years behind where fintech is today, with more early-stage entrants than maturing companies to scale ✅Direct-to-consumer insurtechs in life insurance have a particular set of challenges, where name-brand recognition plays a major role ✅With auto insurance, you renew your policy every year, whereas with life insurance you have less frequent meaningful touchpoints to the customer ✅Brian sees interesting trends/opportunities in embedded financial services, being present at the merchant-customer point-of-sale  ✅Insurtech investing has a significant problem with ensuring diversity and so Brian helped launch a second fund purely focused on providing capital to companies founded by underrepresented demographics across the board Follow the Insurtech Leadership Podcast airing weekly hosted by Joshua R. Hollander. We give you up-close access and personal insights from the leaders of the fastest-growing #insurtechs and most innovative #insurance carriers and brokers. Brian Kaas is President and Managing Director of CMFG Ventures, LLC and oversees all aspects of CUNA Mutual's venture capital program. Additionally, Kaas serves as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at CUNA Mutual Group.  He is responsible for evaluating and executing a broad range of acquisitions and other strategic transactions for the organization.  He serves as a board member for several financial technology start-up companies and is a frequent speaker on emerging fintech trends.  Kaas joined CUNA Mutual Group in 2012. Prior to joining CUNA Mutual Group, Kaas was a partner at the national law firm of Foley & Lardner.  Kaas has a broad range of legal and corporate experience, particularly in the areas of complex commercial transactions including mergers, acquisitions, reinsurance and corporate restructurings. Kaas graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School with a Juris Doctorate. He also received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in Public Policy and Administration with an emphasis in Legal Affairs.

An interview with Prof. S. Lisa Washington, the 2021-22 William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. 
Prof. Washington discusses her forthcoming article on how the family regulation system mirrors the criminal justice system and in practice finds that parents encounter a system as coercive, intrusive, and disempowering, especially for marginalized communities.

This week, we have an all-star duo in Daniel B. Rodridguez, the Harold Washington Professor of Law at Northwestern Law School, and Miriam Seifter, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School! Much to David's joy, we get Sam deep into the muck of state and local government law. We begin by talking about Daniel and Miriam's new projects -- The SLoG Law Blog and The State Democracy Research Initiative. Sam then asks our guests which issues in state and local government law they're thinking about right now. We discuss ongoing battles of state legislatures stripping power from governors, how states and localities are using COVID-related federal aid, and state constitutional law. As part of the conversation, we also get into institutional design of state and local governments and how these institutions promote or hinder majoritarianism. Referenced readings: Daryl J. Levinson and Richard H. Pildes, “Separation of Parties, Not Powers,” The Harvard Law Review, (June 2006). David Schleicher, “The Beginning of the End of the Progressive Era in State Constitutional Law?” SLoG Law Blog, (September 17, 2017). Miriam Seifter, “Gubernatorial Administration,” Harvard Law Review (March 4, 2017).

In this episode of 1050 Bascom, we were grateful for the opportunity to talk to Erin Barbato, Director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School, about immigration politics and policy. We also asked Prof. Barabato about the recent grant she received to co-direct a Center for Dreamers at the University of Wisconsin that aims to assist undocumented immigrants in Wisconsin who were brought to this country as young children and remain here under the temporary, renewable protections of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). We enjoyed our conversation with Prof. Barbato and learned so much. We hope you will too.

An interview with Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Law School, Prof. Sumudu Atapattu. Prof. Atapattu discusses various issues on the topic of environmental justice and sustainable development, especially as it pertains to the Global South.

Allison and Julia will cover the new underage drinking prevention campaign "Small Talks" from how this campaign came to be to what parents and caregivers need to know to start the conversations about underage drinking. We will discuss brain science as it relates to young brains, different approaches to when and how to talk with kids in your life and how your coalition or community group can build on this effort to adopt evidence-based policies and practices. Guests: Allison Weber & Julia Sherman Allison Weber is a Prevention Coordinator at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services in Madison, overseeing the Substance Abuse Block Grant (SABG) prevention set-aside. She has been involved in substance misuse prevention activities for over 15 years beginning in the frontline provider area in PA. She also was Director of Community Relations and Development at a large Latino non-profit in PA for many years. Weber served on numerous Boards of Directors and coalitions including the county Health Improvement Partnership and the local Federally Qualified Health Clinic (FQHC). Julia Sherman coordinates the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School. In 2001, she began her work in alcohol policy at the American Medical Association's Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse in Chicago and later served as the national Field Director for the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth. In 2009 Sherman chaired the Alcohol, Culture and Environment Work Group of the Wisconsin State Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and authored its final report, Changing Wisconsin's Alcohol Environment to Promote Safe and Healthy Lives. In 2010, she became the first coordinator of the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Find more webinars here: www.yourchoiceprevention.org/webinars --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preventthis/support

In our first episode hosts Brad Lawson and Susan Morgan Bailey speak to health and benefits legal expert Barbara Zabawa about the legal and regulatory considerations of workforce vaccination.  Topics covered include: * Should or can vaccination be mandatory? * What exemptions can employees use if they are not vaccinated? * Employee privacy and other regulatory considerations. * The use of incentives, third parties and integrating vaccination into an employee wellbeing program. Barbara Zabawa is the founder of the Center for Health and Wellness Law, LLC and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School.

She comes to MSU Law from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law, where she joined the faculty in 1989 as a full professor and holds the Evjue-Bascom Professorship. She was a visiting professor at both Georgetown University Law Center and Harvard Law School. At Harvard, she was the first African American woman to teach at the law school.“I've been in the Big Ten for three decades at Wisconsin,” says Greene. “MSU has been a big part of that Big Ten experience. The opportunity to be a law dean is so special right now. All of society's challenges and opportunities require legal intervention and legal reform, so it's a great time to be at a great law school. I was also excited to have an opportunity to do this at what I'm calling my sister institution in the Big Ten. This was a really great fit for me. My University of Wisconsin Law School experience has really prepared me to work with my colleagues to carve out a really important role for the College of Law at MSU.“Our societal challenges require multidisciplinary approaches, and this is a new phase of growth for both the College of Law and Michigan State. I always say that the best law schools are embedded in great universities. And conversely, a university will not be truly great without an intellectually preeminent law school. I'm really excited to lead the College of Law, but I'm also excited to expand our work with other colleges at Michigan State University for our mutual benefit.”Dean Greene describes some of the research and curricular strengths of the college.She talks about work in innovation and entrepreneurship and the Center for Law, Technology and Innovation. Intellectual property and copyright law are also strong. And there's the Indigenous Law and Policy Center. Greene also talks about the Immigration, Housing, and Civil Rights Law Clinics and the Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute. Greene is a leading scholar in sports law and has done work specifically on Olympic governance. She predicts what controversies she thinks we'll be hearing about this year.“There will be a few. There always are. One controversy is whether the Olympics will take place at all. Given the current COVID surge in Japan, my understanding is that the many thousands of workers who will be working at the Olympics will not be vaccinated. There are so many unanswered questions about whether the Olympics will take place. There have been sports competitions taking place around the world, but not on the scale of the Olympics.“Another is whether the ban against illegal substances will be effectively enforced. That has been a serious problem during prior international competitions, especially at Sochi. Will women be barred from competition because their hormonal levels vary from what is typical in women? This involves the question whether people are allowed to choose their gender identity or whether we will approve a biological definition of womanhood for purposes of competition. This has been an ongoing issue over 10 years.”Greene also writes and speaks on intercollegiate athletics. “There are two big issues right now. One I think people can really understand is whether collegiate athletes will have an opportunity to share in the wealth they produce and whether they will be able to use their images and likenesses for financial gain. There's legislation in many states around the country that will permit athletes to profit from their images and likenesses. That means that if you are a popular athlete, you might be able to get a shoe deal where in exchange for an amount of money, you allow your name to be associated with an athletic shoe. That would be an example. Or you might be able to have branded apparel and then obtain profit from the sales of that apparel.”Greene has been the chief diversity officer at two institutions - the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California-San Diego - and is a noteworthy scholar and commentator in this area. Diversity, equity, and inclusion will shape her vision as dean of MSU Law.“In a nation that is becoming ever more diverse, our future competitiveness and excellence as a nation, as a state, and as a university, depends upon our capacity to educate a diverse population of students. That is the only way that we are going to be able to draw on all of our talent for our creative scientific and social science advancements. I see our diversity as our future excellence, and I plan to collaborate with my colleagues at the College of Law and at MSU on a vision of excellence through diversity.”Greene shares her short- and long-term goals for the college. She'll work on the colleges' accreditations from the American Bar Association and the American Association of Law Schools.  “During the next academic year, we will complete a College of Law strategic plan. The ABA requires that we complete a strategic plan in conjunction with our self-study review. More importantly, the provost and I agreed that during my first year, we would conduct a strategic planning process so that we can identify our College of Law strategic priorities for the next 10 years. In that strategic planning process, we will be taking into account the strategic priorities of the university's strategic plan, which is close to completion. We'll also be establishing our own strategic priorities for the next decade.“It's really important that we recruit a more diverse cohort of students from every corner of the state, the country, and the world. This is going to be more important because the American Bar Association is considering a standard for accreditation that will focus on the diversity of the student body, staff, and faculty. Diversity is going to be not only important to our service to the state, but it's also going to be important to our success in our review process upcoming.“We want to be sure we're providing service to every corner of the state. Some of our clinics are engaged in that enterprise, but we need to do more. I talk about making sure that the College of Law is a significant presence in our historic home in Detroit. All the way up to the Upper Peninsula, we are Michigan's law school and we need to serve all of Michigan's people. I want to work closely with our alumni. They have so much to offer to our current students. And we also want to be sure that we understand their needs and that we are supporting their development throughout the arc of their legal careers. “Of course, a priority is to raise private money to support the College of Law. We have had some incredibly generous donors in the past. Now we need transformative financial support to retain and recruit faculty. We also need transformative scholarship support to maintain access and affordability to legal education.”What's the state of the legal profession your graduates are entering? How have legal education and the legal profession evolved over the years? What does the future look like?“Legal education is more important than ever. Every controversy and every challenge in which our society is embroiled has a legal dimension. From George Floyd to COVID 19 to the disputes over executive power, there are so many areas of society in which law plays an important role. This is probably one of the most important times for people to attend law school and to become lawyers. “What are some things that have changed? The legal profession and legal education have had a number of ups and downs. We had a diminishment of demand for legal education after the crash of 2008. And then what we're now seeing is a surge in interest in legal education. It's not just an interest in the legal education of the past, but a legal education that focuses on the most important issues in society. The challenges that we face in our communities, in our country, and around the world are significant, but those challenges are fueling a much greater interest in the study of law than ever before. And the challenge of a law school is to make sure that we prepare our students to address these evermore complex problems.“I look at legal education as the beginning of a long process in which our graduates will have to learn and re-learn and acquire new information in order to serve people effectively across a 50-year career. Many of them will practice law for 50 years or more. So how do we provide a legal education that provides a foundation not only in the areas that are currently important, but also the kind of foundation that will enable our graduates to be lifelong learners and leaders in the field of law? There's just more opportunity than ever. It's very exciting.“I would argue that at every stage of our country's development, law has always played an important role. It is the responsibility of the College of Law to provide the kind of legal education foundation that will not only prepare students to hit the ground running as lawyers today, but also to be leaders, policy makers, and servants throughout their careers. And those careers will extend 50 years and beyond. We've got to prepare them to serve society. And I'm so excited to have the opportunity to do that at MSU College of Law College.“The College of Law has a history of over a century of making enormous contributions to the state. This is a new phase of the College of Law's development, and we are very excited to play not only an important role in Michigan State University's activities, but to be an important player in every place in the state. In every place, every neighborhood, every community, we want Michigan State College of Law graduates to make a difference. That's our goal.”MSU Today airs Sunday mornings at 9:00 on 105.1 FM and AM 870 and streams at wkar.org. Find “MSU Today with Russ White” on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your shows.

An interview with Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library Bonnie Shucha of the University of Wisconsin Law School. Dean Shucha discusses various issues surrounding the scholarly visibility of legal academia publishing and the role that law libraries have to play in enhancing visibility, impact, and discoverability.

Everett Mitchell is a "Renaissance Black Man" -- a pastor, attorney, judge and community activist. Today's Real Talk about his background is as real as it gets -- and might be triggering for some listeners, so discretion is advised. After a childhood laced with trauma, he made it to college despite being functionally illiterate. A few years later, with the help of some people who saw his potential, he was graduating from Morehouse College and going on to the University of Wisconsin Law School.  Now the chief judge in the juvenile division of the Dane County Circuit Court and pastor at Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church, Everett opens up about an incredible journey in today's Real Talk with Henry Sanders.

An interview with Professor Anne Smith of the University of Wisconsin Law School. Professor Smith is the Director of the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic and she discusses the services the clinic provides and projects the clinic is involved in. She also discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the clinic's services and workflow.

An interview with Professor Steph Tai of the University of Wisconsin Law School. Professor Tai discusses two recent articles about food law, touching on the intersection of food law and climate change as well as the cultural heritage of food.

In this episode, Steph Tai, Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, discusses their article "Legalizing the Meaning of Meat," which is published in the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal. Tai begins by explaining the historical development of the meaning of meat, and different kinds of foods that have been considered meat in different places at different times. They continue by describing the current state of meat alternative foods, including plant-based, insect-based, and cultured foods. They outline current efforts to define the meaning of meat legislatively and why those efforts have largely failed. And they reflect on broader philosophical questions on how and why the meaning of the term "meat" matters. Tai is on Twitter at @YoStephTai.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  Welcome to a special Martin Luther King Day episode of Madison BookBeat, where our topic is one of Wisconsin's greatest civil rights leaders, the late Lloyd Barbee. Our guest is his daughter, Daphne E. Barbee-Wooten, editor of Justice For All Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee, from our friends at the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Lloyd Augustus Barbee was an attorney, a state legislator, and the man who fought and won a 12-year fight to desegregate the Milwaukee public schools. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on August 17, 1925, and he joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) when he was just 12 years old. Barbee served in the navy during WWII. In 1949 he graduated from the all-black Lemoyne College with a B.A. in economics. Later that year, Barbee moved to Madison to attend the University of Wisconsin Law School, but dropped out after his first year because of the racism he encountered among his peers and professors. He eventually returned to the university, however, and received his law degree in 1956. He was elected president of the Madison branch of the NAACP in 1955. In 1958, he completed a study outlining discriminatory housing practices in Madison. In 1960, as chair of the Mayor's Commission on Human Rights, he got the Air Force to stop using segregated housing lists for personnel stationed at Truax Air Base. In 1961, he raised funds for a film by UW-Extension instructor Stuart Hanisch exposing racist landlords in Madison – a film the university sought, with some success, to suppress. That same year, he conducted his first civil rights demonstration in support of open housing at the Wisconsin State Capitol. In 1962, as president of the state NAACP, Barbee released the draft of a tough human rights ordinance for Madison banning discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations – an ordinance Madison adopted in 1963,the first fair housing code in the state. But by then, Barbee moved to Milwaukee at the urging of national NAACP leaders, to confront the de facto segregation of the city's public schools. In 1964 Barbee organized and led an alliance of civil rights activists dedicated to ending de facto segregation in Milwaukee called the Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC). When MPS refused to modify its school policy, the NAACP organized boycotts of MPS schools and operated "freedom schools" in their place. After a year of high-profile MUSIC demonstrations with no positive changes in school board policy, Barbee decided that the only way to enact change would be through the legal system. On June 17, 1965, Barbee filed a federal lawsuit, Amos et al. v. Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee, charging the Milwaukee School Board with unconstitutionally maintaining racial segregation in its schools. Finally, in January of 1976, Federal Judge John Reynolds ruled that Milwaukee Public Schools were indeed segregated unlawfully, prompting the Wisconsin Legislature to enact a school integration program. Although Barbee won the case in 1976, he spent the next several years dealing with appeals, new trials, and work to enact a viable plan to desegregate the school system. Though not perfect, the court decision began to address schooling issues in Milwaukee. In 1964 Barbee was also elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly where he served until 1977. He soon became known among his fellow assemblymen as “the outrageous Mr. Barbee” because of the progressive legislation he advocated, and some of the pretty harsh language he employed. In addition to legislation concerning open housing and fair employment practices, Barbee introduced legislation promoting gay rights, women's rights, prison reform, the legalization of drugs and prostitution, the disarming of police officers, and the taxation of churches. In later years, Barbee continued to work as a Milwaukee lawyer, and remained dedicated in his commitment to promoting human rights and positive social change. He died on December 29, 2002, at the age of 77. Daphne E. Barbee-Wooten is one of Lloyd and Roudaba Barbee's three children. She is an attorney focusing on civil rights practicing in Honolulu Hawai'I, where she was the first senior trial attorney for the state Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. A former public defender, she received a lifetime achievement award from the Hawaii NAACP in 2014 and in 2016 the Civil Rights Attorney of the Year from Sisters Empowering Hawai'i.  

In this episode of 1050 Bascom, we were grateful to have the opportunity to talk to Mary Davis Michaud, a UW Political Science alum and Faculty Associate at the La Follette School of Public Affairs. Mary joined the La Follette School last October after working for more than two decades in public health in roles at the local, state, and national levels. Most recently, Mary worked with the Center for Patient Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin Law School teaching courses in health policy and public health. We talked to Mary about her time at UW-Madison as an undergrad, her career path, and her new role at La Follette. We enjoyed our conversation with Mary and learned so much. We hope you will too. Listen here.

An interview with Dean Daniel P. Tokaji of the University of Wisconsin Law School. Dean Tokaji discusses two recent pieces he authored on election law as well as an upcoming article relying on the scholarship of Neil Komesar, University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Emeritus. Dean Tokaji's work is especially relevant today and he has excellent insights into the future of truth and democracy.

Anna Meier is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also a Law & Society graduate fellow with the University of Wisconsin Law School. She studies how governments construct the concept of "terrorism" and formulate national security policy in response. Her research has received support from the Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence at UW–Madison and the Wisconsin Project on International Relations, and is published or forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Political Science, Lawfare, Political Violence at a Glance, and The Washington Post. Anna is also an activist with the Teaching Assistants' Association, UW–Madison's graduate labor union, and has worked on issues of equity and justice in the academy at the local and national levels. Prior to grad school, Anna worked in Washington, DC for the START Consortium and the Project On Government Oversight. She holds a master's degree in political science from UW–Madison and bachelor's degrees in international relations and modern languages from Knox College.

An interview with Stewart Macaulay, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Macaulay discusses a recently-released book on his work and influence on contract law, as well as several lesser-known articles he authored.

In this episode, we were grateful to have the opportunity to speak with Amy Bogost, a civil rights lawyer at Bogost Law, LLC. Amy is a UW-Madison Political Science and History grad. She received her law degree from Chicago Kent College of Law and has worked in civil law in Seattle, Washington and California before moving back to Madison. Amy has most recently focused her practice on Federal Title IX representation of victims of sensitive crimes. Through the Southwest Center for Law and Policy, Amy has provided training on implementation of Title IX within Tribal colleges and has taught at the National Tribal Trial College, co-sponsored and located at University of Wisconsin Law School. We enjoyed our conversation with Amy and learned so much. We hope you will too.

Today's podcast is from our consultant Sir Williams, former Director of Admissions at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he led the successful implementation of UW’s first pre-law diversity pipeline summer program. In this podcast, Sir gives a broad introduction to law school admissions for under-represented minority (URM) applicants — what "counts" as URM for admissions, why it matters, and some special considerations URM applicants might want to flag. A few links mentioned in the podcast: MyRank, where you can create your own personalized rankings based on the metrics you prioritize https://myrankbyspivey.com/ LSAC Table on Diversity in the US & Legal Pipeline https://report.lsac.org/View.aspx?Report=DiversityPopulationandPipeline Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog post on diversity and the LSAT https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2019/08/more-on-a-deans-perspective-on-diversity-socioeconomics-the-lsat-and-the-us-news-law-school-rankings.html You can also listen to this podcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/L8Lj1izhQvY or Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spivey-consulting-law-school-admissions-podcast/id1477090223, or read a transcript on our blog https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/intro-to-urm-admissions-podcast

11/17/2020 - Zach and Lydo talk NBA trade drama as Chris Paul is officially a Phoenix Sun, plus trouble down in Houston with James Harden and Russell Westbrook both requesting trades. The guys also talk NFL Week 10, including the state of the wild NFC and the current playoff picture. The hosts then briefly talk some college football and question the purpose of this unusual 2020 season. ALSO, the guys interview Wisconsin native and Zach's father, Dan Albregts to discuss a wide range of topics, from his time at the University of Wisconsin Law School, Wisconsin Badger basketball & football, golf, and some free legal advice from Dan himself. Finally, tune into our favorite segment, "Who's The Asshole". KEEP 'ER MOVINSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=30190144)

An interview with Cecelia M. Klingele, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Klingele discusses two recently published articles, "Labeling Violence" and "Making Sense of Risk."

Steven Wright spent six years at the Department of Justice Voting Section witnessing all manner of election chicanery, voter suppression and dark money campaigns. So when he turned his efforts towards fiction, he decided to write what he knew. The result was The Coyotes of Carthage, a literary novel following Toussaint Andre Ross, a Black political consultant sent from his Washington, D.C., agency in disgrace to run a dark money campaign and convince a small town in South Carolina to sell their land to mining interests. The personal, moral and ethical choices that are made could save his career–or set him adrift entirely. In this episode of the Modern Law Library, Wright tells the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles how he made the leap to creative writing, what it's been like to teach students at the University of Wisconsin Law School remotely, and the plans to turn The Coyotes of Carthage into a TV series.

Steven Wright spent six years at the Department of Justice Voting Section witnessing all manner of election chicanery, voter suppression and dark money campaigns. So when he turned his efforts towards fiction, he decided to write what he knew. The result was The Coyotes of Carthage, a literary novel following Toussaint Andre Ross, a Black political consultant sent from his Washington, D.C., agency in disgrace to run a dark money campaign and convince a small town in South Carolina to sell their land to mining interests. The personal, moral and ethical choices that are made could save his career–or set him adrift entirely. In this episode of the Modern Law Library, Wright tells the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles how he made the leap to creative writing, what it's been like to teach students at the University of Wisconsin Law School remotely, and the plans to turn The Coyotes of Carthage into a TV series.

Steven Wright spent six years at the Department of Justice Voting Section witnessing all manner of election chicanery, voter suppression and dark money campaigns. So when he turned his efforts towards fiction, he decided to write what he knew. The result was The Coyotes of Carthage, a literary novel following Toussaint Andre Ross, a Black political consultant sent from his Washington, D.C., agency in disgrace to run a dark money campaign and convince a small town in South Carolina to sell their land to mining interests. The personal, moral and ethical choices that are made could save his career–or set him adrift entirely. In this episode of the Modern Law Library, Wright tells the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles how he made the leap to creative writing, what it's been like to teach students at the University of Wisconsin Law School remotely, and the plans to turn The Coyotes of Carthage into a TV series.

Julie Walsh and Abigail Benjamin discuss the life and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the importance of good-hearted political debate and being willing to dissent from your peers, and Abigail’s experience of running for public office for the first time.Abigail Benjamin is a lay Carmelite, a Catholic wife of 20 years, and a homeschooling mom to seven kids ages 17 to 2. She is an environmental and real estate lawyer in her small hometown in Central West Virginia. This year she ran for public office for the first time.Abigail is working on her first novel, "Thin Lines" as part of a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at West Virginia Wesleyan College. She graduated with honors from Smith College and the University of Wisconsin Law School. You can learn more about Abigail at her website: http://www.abigaillawoffice.com/ Visit www.thesewallsblog.com/morethanpolitics to learn more about this podcast.Theme music is by purple-planet.com

In his debut novel THE COYOTES OF CARTHAGE, Steven Wright presents a disturbing portrayal of a corporate financed political campaign through the eyes of a the black political consultant running it, whose personal and professional life is unraveling. Steven Wright is a professor of law at The University of Wisconsin in Madison, the co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, and also teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsion. Before joining the University of Wisconsin Law School faculty, he served as a trial attorney in the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice. In this role, he litigated cases to enforce the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Acts, National Voter Registration Act, and the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act.

In his debut novel THE COYOTES OF CARTHAGE, Steven Wright presents a disturbing portrayal of a corporate financed political campaign through the eyes of a the black political consultant running it, whose personal and professional life is unraveling.Steven Wright is a professor of law at The University of Wisconsin in Madison, the co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, and also teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsion. Before joining the University of Wisconsin Law School faculty, he served as a trial attorney in the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice. In this role, he litigated cases to enforce the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Acts, National Voter Registration Act, and the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act.

Today we’re exploring the legal aspects of business ownership! Those legal questions to consider before launching your company as well as priorities and potential issues that we may haven’t considered as we’re focused on the day-to-day aspects of our grind.Today’s guest is Sam Weisgarber, an attorney for ProAssurance, a company that specializes in professional liability insurance and risk management for physicians, hospitals, and healthcare facilities… So he has my full attention. There, Sam directs and manages litigation across multiple medical and hospital professional lines in the Midwest. He partners and manages with outside defense counsel to coordinate aggressive defense strategies for policyholders and insureds. He is intimately involved in the discovery and fact-finding process, in the selection and evaluation of expert witnesses, and monitoring trials and appeals and evaluating panel counsel.Prior to this role, Sam was an adjunct faculty member for the University of Wisconsin Law School, a staff attorney at Ameritrust, and a trial lawyer for All-State. We discuss so many relevant business law topics today, which makes this episode a can't miss for any aspiring or current business owner.  But before we dive in, I want to ask a couple of simple favors - We’d love it if you’d take 30 seconds to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and share MikedUp Pod with a friend. One last thing, if you’re just finding us on this episode, please head back into the MikedUp Pod feed and download some of our previous episodes featuring awesome guests like Bill Balderaz, Sean White, Dionte Johnson, my wife and business partner Dr. Monica Monfredi, and so many more. Thanks for supporting and we hope you enjoy! 

  Paranormal News: The cat came back the very next day ten years later, Idaho is UFO and Bigfoot country and Overweight tourists are outraged in Venice. Keep Talking with Betty: Betty has started her own podcast! But before you check that out, be sure to have a listen to our Oracle as she summarizes her experiences during Covid-19 and how she has coping spiritually. Cryptid Corner: Lizard Man Lives! Straight from the swamp and here on the corner just waiting for you to discover this bizarre creature that had a million-dollar bounty on his leathery head. Dr. Laura's Lair: Our hero on the front line, Laura returns to chat about social distancing being an old idea. In fact, it was in fashion long before we all came around. Did I mention this does not even pertain to the animal kingdom? You have got to check out Laura's brilliant plants! I highly suggest smoking plants during as well

An interview with Steven Wright, Clinical Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Wright discusses his debut novel, "The Coyotes of Carthage."

An interview with the EIC of the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender, and Society at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Terence Hawkins is the author of two novels and many short stories and essays. His first story, "The Minnow Files," was published in Ape Culture in 2000. His first novel, The Rage of Achilles was published in 2009, followed by American Neolithic, which was named a Best Book of 2014 by Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus called it "a towering work of speculative fiction." Hawkins' writing is driven as much by idea as character and incorporates elements of history, philosophy, speculative fiction, and science. His work was recently recognized with an entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Hawkins grew up in Uniontown, PA, the former coal town famously featured in both Philipp Meyer's American Rust and the original "Night of the Living Dead." He attended Yale University, where he majored in history and served as publisher of the Yale Daily News. Later, Hawkins received a JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School. In 2011, he founded the Yale Writers' Conference and now runs the Company of Writers, offering workshops and manuscript services to writers at all levels of experience. In 2018, Hawkins became a mentor in Visible Ink, a creative writing program for cancer survivors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital

This is episode 29, “Retrospective Denials.” My guest, Martha Gaines, is a 1983 cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School and received her LL.M in 1993 from the same school. Her thesis is titled "I do make house calls--Effective Legal Representation From Our Clients' Perspective." Ms. Gaines is on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College in Macon, Georgia and the New York State Defender's Association in Albany, New York.” Ms. Gaines and several colleagues founded The Center for Patient Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin in September 2000. The Center trains students from the schools of Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Social Work to provide advocacy to cancer patients. Ms. Gaines teaches a Patient Advocacy course where students are joined in interdisciplinary teams that help cancer patients understand their diagnoses, get the information necessary to make critical treatment decisions, and support patient's efforts to obtain the treatment they need. The Center also conducts research about issues relevant to patient care and health care delivery from the patient's perspective. Do not miss the episode as Ms. Gaines explains what retrospective denials are, and why they are especially harmful to patients. Here is the link to the JAMA article mentioned in the podcast, "Changing the Game of Prior Authorization, The Patient Perspective."  

The Thompson Center had the great pleasure of interviewing Dean Margaret Raymond, who has served as the Fred W. and Vi Miller Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School since July 2011. Dean Raymond served as a law clerk to the late Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court and the late Judge James L. Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Following her clerkships, she practiced as a commercial litigator and a criminal defense lawyer. Dean Raymond's scholarship focuses on constitutional criminal procedure, substantive criminal law, and the professional responsibility of lawyers. She is the co-author of a Professional Responsibility casebook, The Law and Ethics of Law Practice (with Hughes, 2d ed. 2015). From 2013-2019, she served as a member of the Standing Committee on Professional Ethics of the Wisconsin State Bar and she participates regularly in providing ethics CLE programming to Wisconsin lawyers.

Emily Kelchen is a part owner of the National Football League team – the Green Bay Packers...  that makes her interesting enough. She is also a lawyer, lobbyist, and consultant to small and mid-size law firms in the areas of marketing, specifically measuring what works and targeting your energy and dollars toward your ideal client. She urges you to sketch that person to enable you to focus on your ideal client.She brings an interesting perspective – describing the law as the last self-governing profession – urging that lawyers, even introverts like herself, join the Bar Association, network, and provide pro bono services.The future is here – written content, audio content, and video content.  It is here now! Her Big Ask for all of us is to update our LinkedIn page as she finds it to be a huge resource. She reminds us that Google is the main reader of our online content. And, she states that being yourself and being human in your online content is okay.She is a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School and loves the city of Madison, Wisconsin – I second the thought. You can find her online and on all the social media sites at Kelchen Consulting. Enjoy!

Thank you, St. Croix County for Warren Knowles. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1933 and became Wisconsin’s 37th governor.

Some of the biggest generic drug makers in the industry are being sued for what the attorney general of Connecticut calls an industry-wide conspiracy to fix the prices of generic drugs. Bill Whitaker reports. A unique program at the University of Wisconsin Law School brings crime victims and the criminals convicted of those crimes face to face. Scott Pelley has the story. Anderson Cooper introduces us to artist, Mark Bradford on this week's edition of "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For today's show, I am joined by Filene’s Managing Director of Research, Taylor Nelms, as we interview Andrew Turner, Legal Research and Writing Faculty at the University of Wisconsin Law School and author of “Who Do Credit Unions Belong To? The Promise and Peril of Being Undefined in a Time of Political and Social Polarization.” In a time in America when everything seems politicized and polarized, sliced and diced in a million different ways, this isn't affecting who uses credit unions. This study explores why this is the case and whether that helps or hurts credit unions, and ultimately, their members. Andrew walks us through this research in which he explored how people of all different social and political affiliations are drawn to the ideas and values of credit unions, how nearly everyone identifies with credit unions except one specific category of consumer, and offers several strategic paths for credit unions to consider when it comes to marketing to their communities and being covered in the media... Listen in to be sure you're making purposeful and informed strategic decisions about how you present your credit union to your community and the world at large. To download the full report and get access to the executive summary and presentation slides, visit filene.org/470.

On October 18, ACS hosted a webinar featuring John H. Thompson, the 24th Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, and Robert Yablon, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, discussing the upcoming 2020 Census and the role that state attorneys general can play to ensure a fair and accurate count.

Brenda Bernstein enumerates the top mistakes people make when crafting their LinkedIn profiles and what you should do instead.   You'll Learn: Two keys to crafting an eye-grabbing LinkedIn profile How to grow your LinkedIn network past 500 people quickly and easily The case for making recommendations   About Brenda: Brenda Bernstein, Founder and Senior Editor at The Essay Expert LLC, is the author of How to Write a Killer LinkedIn Profile, a book that held the #1 bestseller spot in Amazon’s business writing skills list for over two years. A sought-after speaker and award-winning businesswoman and resume writer, Brenda is a dedicated student of leadership and a trained life coach. Armed with a B.A. in English with honors from Yale and a J.D. with honors from NYU Law School, she has been partnering with job seekers and college applicants for over 15 years to create effective written application documents. Brenda practiced law for 10 years in New York City and spent a year as a J.D. Career Advisor with the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Office of Career Services. She currently works part-time as a Law School Admissions Consultant for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep326

Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, discusses special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election, which has resulted in legal action against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Plus, Peter Carstensen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, discusses European Union opposition to Bayer's $66 billion takeover of Monsanto. They speak with Bloomberg's June Grasso.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, discusses special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election, which has resulted in legal action against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Plus, Peter Carstensen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, discusses European Union opposition to Bayer’s $66 billion takeover of Monsanto. They speak with Bloomberg's June Grasso. 

The Board of Directors of New Haven Legal Assistance Association has chosen Alexis H. Smith of Hamden as its next Executive Director. Smith, a graduate of Duke University and the University of Wisconsin Law School, has served as deputy director since 2012 and was a staff attorney at Greater Hartford Legal Aid from 2006-2012. She is a native of New Haven. The new executive director has served as an officer of the Connecticut Bar Association and president of the George W. Crawford Black Bar Association. She was featured in Connecticut Magazine's "40 Under 40" in 2015. In 2012, she was honored by the Connecticut Law Tribune as a "New Leader in the Law.” She has served on the boards of the New Alliance Foundation, St. Thomas's Day School, the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology, and Community Partners in Action and is a certified soccer referee. Smith lives in Hamden, with her husband Ken and their three children. Board president Beverly J. Hodgson said, "the board is delighted to have a leader with such deep connection to our mission of providing legal services to the poor and advancing justice and equal rights under the law." New Haven Legal Assistance Association has a fifty-one year history as a nonprofit law firm serving clients in the greater New Haven area.

“We never control the timing of our opportunities.” “ I always thought about the removal with anger or sadness...and now I think about survival and resilience.”  Stacy Leeds is a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is also Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. Recently, Dean Leeds was reappointed to a second term as Dean. Let me restate that: Dean Leeds is a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation and Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law. I’ve been excited to get this conversation on the record to share, because Stacy is one of Indian Country’s shining stars. Stacy is from Muskogee, Oklahoma. She was active in sports, excelling in basketball. Eventually she played small forward at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. She was not familiar with the school’s prestige when the school contact her initially, she decided to attend because it was where she could play ball. This is a familiar theme in Stacy’s life, jumping into something full steam ahead. I’ve always found, despite my desire to learn as much as I can about an issue, the best way to do things. Because when you dive into something you cannot allow yourself to get in your own way. It’s served Stacy well throughout her life. After college, she attended the University of Tulsa College of Law. During law school, she realized her desire to enter legal academia. So after school she participated as a Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. When the fellowship was finished, she began teaching at the University of North Dakota. Her next stop was at the University of Kansas teaching as part of the Indigenous Studies program. Here she was able to take on an interim role as Dean. It was here where she realized that she could take on this role. Soon after, she was presented an opportunity to apply for the Dean position at Arkansas. One of my favorite parts of the conversation was listening to Dean Leeds discuss her recent experience as a participant in the Remember the Removal ride. In this episode, we discuss: The challenge of choosing between two good options. Finding the Native community regardless of where you live. Getting burned out, and taking care of yourself to prevent it. The importance of relationships in Indian Country, law, and beyond. The power of relativity and connection. Working “in” Indian Country, and what does it mean when opportunities arise to work beyond Indian Country exclusively. The phone call she got when she was offered the Dean position. The Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative. No matter where you are in your professional journey, you can take something away from Stacy’s experience.

Update: Brendan Dassey, nephew to Steven Avery, the primary defendant from the "Making a Murderer" series on Netflix had his conviction for murder, rape, and mutilation of a corpse overturned by U.S. Magistrate Judge William E. Duffin of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin last Friday. This episode was recorded shortly before the development. Back on October 31st of 2005, a young photographer named Teresa Halbach went missing. Teresa’s last meeting had been with Steven Avery, on the grounds of Avery's Auto Salvage in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Teresa’s remains were later found on the grounds of Avery’s home and family business. Avery was well known to law enforcement and had previously served a lengthy prison sentence for rape and attempted murder from which he  was later exonerated on DNA evidence. What transpired inspired the extremely popular Netflix series “Making a Murderer,” directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos. The series spotlights Steven Avery and his quest for justice after claims that he was wrongfully accused in the murder of Teresa Halbach. In 2005, Steven Avery was arrested for the murder of Teresa Halbach, and was ultimately represented by Wisconsin attorneys, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting. Strang and Buting presented their case and their defense strategy, bringing to light alleged tampering and planting of evidence by police. After a whirlwind of a trial, the verdict came back guilty, sending Steven Avery to jail for life without the possibility of parole. As Steven Avery sits in jail, a new attorney has taken over his case and Steven hopes for a new trial and maybe one day his freedom. On this special episode of Lawyer 2 Lawyer, host Bob Ambrogi joins Dean Strang, former defense attorney for Steven Avery, and Peter Linton-Smith, a former television news reporter who covered the Avery trials, as they discuss the popular Netflix series, “Making a Murderer.” Dean and Peter  offer inside perspectives and get the latest on Steven Avery and his quest for a new trial and justice under a new attorney. Dean Strang is a lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin, at the firm Strang Bradley, LLC. He is best known for his work as one of Steven Avery's trial lawyers, as well as for his first book, "Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror." Mr. Strang served five years as Wisconsin’s first federal defender and co-founded Strang Bradley, LLC. He is an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School, the University of Wisconsin Law School, and University of Wisconsin's Division of Continuing Studies. Mr. Strang is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on several charity boards, including the Wisconsin Innocence Project. His second book will be published in early 2018. Peter Linton-Smith was a television news reporter for 24 years covering primarily courts (1988-2012). Peter has covered cases ranging from first degree murder, wrongful death, products liability, copyright dispute, employment and labor disputes. Peter has covered Steven Avery, both his civil and criminal case from 2003-2007. Peter is currently employed at Leventhal & Puga in Denver, Colorado. If you want more on "Making a Murderer," check out the Defending Brendan Dassey of “Making a Murderer” Planet Lex episode, when Dassey's appeal attorneys discuss what it was like defending him. Special thanks to our sponsor, Clio.

Sumudu Atapattu is the director of research centers at the University of Wisconsin Law School in the United States. She talks to us about the connection between climate change and human rights and why it matters.

Welcome Medicare Nation!  Today’s discussion spells out the essential elements of Elder Law, and how the specialty is necessary for so many circumstances.  That’s why I am talking to an expert in the field today, who can help us clarify some common misconceptions, and also point us to the right resources to make sure you and your family are protected.   My guest today is Andrew Brusky, who is an attorney who specializes in elder law, offering services designed to provide greater options and security for the elderly and disabled.  Mr. Brusky regularly handles cases and is a frequent speaker on issues involving Medicaid eligibility, health care and financial powers of attorney, trust documents, as well as long-term care options for the elderly.  Andrew has worked for Legal Assistance to the Elderly in San Francisco, California and as an intern with the Center for Public Representation in Madison, Wisconsin.  Mr. Brusky received his Undergraduate degree in psychology and gerontology from Santa Clara University and his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.  He is a member of the Milwaukee and Wisconsin Bar Associations (State Bar Elder Law Section Board Member and Past Chair, founding member of the Milwaukee Bar Elder Law Section serving as its Past Chair), the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, past chair and board member for the Greater Milwaukee Interfaith Older Adult Program, and is currently a member of the Life Navigators trust committee in Wauwatosa.  Andrew has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty area of Elder Law and Wisconsin Super Lawyer.   What is Elder Law and the difference between estate planners, etc?   Elder law attorneys are looking at your estate, looking at what counts and what doesn’t.  They determine what needs to be spent down, and what steps you need to take for estate recovery.  There are also considerations for post-eligibility estate planning as well.  There are so many nuances to the law for each specific situation, such as considering what happens if the healthy spouse passes prior to the nursing home spouse, so it really is imperative to have a specialist to make sure there are no surprises down the road.  You want to leave yourself and your estate in the best situation possible in regards to taxation, etc.   What is Divestment and how is that associated with Elder Law?   It helps to think of it in terms of gifting, because you are not getting anything in return for the asset you transfer.  It’s problematic because it can be a barrier to qualifying for Medicaid.  Currently there is a 5 year period prior to eligibility that you cannot conduct these transactions.  An elder law attorney will be able to do things on the front end to make sure you aren’t losing your option for Medicaid.  There are many mitigating actions if this isn’t done correctly from the start, but it takes more time and money than if you did it the right way from the beginning.   Can Financial Powers of Attorney be helpful in the context of Elder Law?   Yes, many times the spouse who has all or part of ownership, isn’t able to administer it themselves, so someone else will need to do it for them.  Many of the pitfalls can be alleviated with a well drafted Financial Power of Attorney.   Are there times when a court guardianship may be necessary?   In cases of abuse, this frequently happens.  If there is mismanagement , there isn’t any family to handle the responsibility or even if there is a dispute about the existing Financial Powers.  It is always a last resort when there are problems with the administration of the directives.   Can having all the documentation in place ahead of time avoid Probate court?   Yes, and no, but while you are already putting steps into place, there is no harm in putting probate avoidance tactics into place.  Good advanced directives and financial power of attorney documents can go a long way in avoiding probation.   Will Medicare cover Long Term Care?   Medicare was not designed for long term care.  It is rehabilitative, and designed to help short term with injury or illness.  It doesn’t have the funds to pay for it ether.  The chronic issues that require custodial care are generally not going to be covered by Medicare.  Lawyers, discharge planners, and geriatric case managers can all be helpful in navigating these complex issues.  If you need monitoring of the care provided, these case managers can be extremely helpful.  It’s as if they are your eyes and ears on the ground, when you can’t always be present to intercede for your loved one.   You can pay your relatives to provide care for you.  Many times it has to be structured and done at fair market value, but there is no reason not to utilize it.  You cannot give away money to your children, but you can pay for them to take care of your, without ruining your eligibility.     What does the future of Elder Care look like?   Baby boomers are just now starting to retire.  Government is trying to get out of the business of providing long term care.  So, there are lots of changes on the horizon.  As more people become eligible, it may bring down the cost of providing care.  It’s important to have funds available to get yourself into an institution, if necessary.  Families are becoming more fractured and living in different locations, so more than ever we will be dependent on these types of programs.  The spectrum continues to swing back and forth between, people needing help and private planning for the financial burdens associated with these services.   Resources:   You can reach Andrew at apb@bruskylaw.com   NAELA - National Association of Elder Law Attorneys lawyers.com - referrals Local bar association can provide referrals Alzheimers Associations will have referral lists Consult neighbors and friends for referrals    Andrew speaks and the NAELA chapters and the Local Bar Association in the Milwaukee area.   Got questions about elder law?  Send them to support@medicarenation.com.  We will address them in future episodes.   Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please subscribe and leave a 5 star rating and review in iTunes! (Click here)       Find out more information about Medicare on Diane Daniel’s website!  www.CallSamm.com                

In Episode 21, we talk with Tim Stewart, attorney and shareholder at Dewitt Ross & Stevens. Tim navigates the employee benefits arena while helping his clients achieve their goals. He has extensive experience in employee benefits and employment matters. He is a member of several professional organizations and received the Ray and Ethel Brown Award for Character and Leadership from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Ambassador Mark Green is President & CEO of the Initiative for Global Development (IGD), a nonprofit organization that engages corporate leaders to reduce poverty through business growth and investment in Africa. A recognized leader in the foreign policy and business communities, Green served as the U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania from mid-2007 to early 2009. While there he led a mission of more than 350 Americans and Tanzanians and was ultimately responsible for some of the world's largest U.S.-led development programs. Prior to serving as U.S. Ambassador, Green served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he helped craft key policy initiatives including the Millennium Challenge Act and President Bush's history-making AIDS program. Most recently, he served as Senior Director at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, a network of 400 businesses, NGOs, policy experts, and other leaders supporting a smart power approach to American foreign policy. Ambassador Green serves on the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), having been appointed to that post by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in 2010. He also serves on the Center for Strategic and International Studies Executive Council on Development and co-chairs the Consensus for Development Reform, a coalition of policy and business leaders devising new principles for making development policy more effective and growth-oriented. Alongside many other activities, Green is a Board Member of WorldTeach and serves on the Former Members of Congress Association Diplomatic Advisory Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. Ambassador Green holds an honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Georgetown University's School of Nursing and Health Studies, a JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire.

A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Prof. Shubha Ghosh of the University of Wisconsin Law School, author of Identity, Invention, and the Culture of Personalized Medicine Patenting. For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.

"THE CHEESEHEAD SONG" is humorist Loose Bruce Kerr's original song about his home state, Wisconsin. Yes, by birth, Bruce is a Badger from Waukesha and a graduate of University of Wisconsin Law School at Madison. Bruce records his songs and videos in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California. He's heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, coast-to-coast. Bruce is also a high tech attorney for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Many of his videos may be seen on youtube and myspace by searching on Loose Bruce Kerr. But this page contains the high quality video version of "THE CHEESEHEAD SONG"...don't forget to bookmark this URL or subscribe to this podcast to be notified when Bruce adds a new original or parody song or video song. email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Prof. Shubha Ghosh of the University of Wisconsin Law School. For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.

"THE CHEESEHEAD SONG" is humorist Loose Bruce Kerr's original song about his home state, Wisconsin. Yes, by birth, Bruce is a Badger from Waukesha and a graduate of University of Wisconsin Law School at Madison. Bruce records his songs and videos in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California. He's heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, coast-to-coast. Bruce is also a high tech attorney for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Many of his videos may be seen on youtube and myspace by searching on Loose Bruce Kerr. But this page contains the high quality video version of "THE CHEESEHEAD SONG"...don't forget to bookmark this URL or subscribe to this podcast to be notified when Bruce adds a new original or parody song or video song. email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

"THE CHEESEHEAD SONG" is humorist Loose Bruce Kerr's original song about his home state, Wisconsin. Yes, by birth, Bruce is a Badger from Waukesha and a graduate of University of Wisconsin Law School at Madison. Bruce records his songs and videos in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California. He's heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, coast-to-coast. Bruce is also a high tech attorney for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Many of his videos may be seen on youtube and myspace by searching on Loose Bruce Kerr. But this page contains the high quality video version of "THE CHEESEHEAD SONG"...don't forget to bookmark this URL or subscribe to this podcast to be notified when Bruce adds a new original or parody song or video song.email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com