This article was put together by Noah G. Buhle, a law clerk with our firm and a Senior at Marquette University Law School, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Thanks for Noah’s great effort and nice summary!


Biden Tax Plan and Ramifications

President Joe Biden, in his campaign and in several speeches after being inaugurated, has stated his

This article is the marvelous work of our current law clerk Kieran O’Day, who will be finishing his stint with us shortly and heading on to clerk with the Supreme Court for the State of Wisconsin!


Wisconsin Statutes Permitting Proxies Generally

Wisconsin corporations are governed by Wisconsin Statutes Chapter 180. Specifically, Wisconsin Statute Section 180.0722,

This article was first posted by Benjamin Streckert on the State Bar of Wisconsin Business Law Section blog and is being used here with the permission of the State Bar of Wisconsin and its author.


Benjamin Streckert, Minnesota 2017, is an attorney with Ruder Ware in Wausau, where he concentrates his practice on various


This article was originally written for the Business Law Section blog of the State Bar of Wisconsin and appears here with the permission of the State Bar and the article’s authors.


THOMAS J. NICHOLS & JAMES DECLEENE

Thomas J. Nichols, Marquette 1979, is a shareholder with Meissner Tierney Fisher & Nichols S.C., Milwaukee



We do a lot of non-profit work. Oftentimes, we are working with new startups that are driven by strong social motivation, but to form and survive need investment capital. This puts us at a crossroad: do we go non-profit and non-stock or conventional corporation? Now, Wisconsin, joining 33 other states, has another alternative: the Benefit

This article was originally posted on the “State Bar of Wisconsin’s Business Law Section Blog,” and was written by Attorney Lindsay M. Fedler.

Many people believe most capital is raised by companies (“Issuers”) making initial public offerings or trading on major exchanges such as the NYSE or NASDAQ. Notable 2017 examples include Snap! (parent company

If you’ve decided to create a startup business, one of the many decisions you face is the choice of what type of limited liability entity to form. In Wisconsin, the most typical choices are either the Limited Liability Company (“LLC”) or corporation. I frequently have people ask me whether I can help them set up

A Federal Appeals Court ruled earlier this month that an S-Corporation’s rental income from a leairs[1]se agreement with a C-Corporation with entirely common ownership with the S-Corp, could not be classified as passive activity income, and therefore could not offset the individual’s passive activity losses.

Internal Revenue Code section 469 was passed in the

We learned this morning about another data breach, this time relating to the widely used Cloud Service called Dropbox.

Steve Kovach, of BusinessInsider.com reported yesterday that over 7 million Dropbox passwords have been compromised.

After the Target, Home Depot and other recent breaches, this isn’t a big surprise. However, since many lawyers use dropbox