Board supports petitions: earning on-demand CLE credits, multijurisdictional practice, and more

Our State Bar's Inside the Bar newsletter reports on the September 29-30 of its Board of Governors.

The board approved the MJP Working Group's petition to amend SCR 20 Rules of Professional Conduct for Attorneys regarding MJP, the unauthorized practice of law, disciplinary authority, and pro hac vice.

The board unanimously supported a Board of Bar Examiners' (BBE) petition to expand the nature of continuing legal education to include the use of repeated "on-demand" CLE programs and to grant ethics and professional responsibility (EPR) credits for concentrated work on Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) district committees and as special investigators. ... The supreme court has scheduled a public hearing for Dec. 11 at 9:30 a.m.

The board opposed the Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) Petition 06-05, as requested by the Professional Ethics, Professionalism, and Lawyer Regulation Study committees. The petition formalizes a process to suspend or deny the law license of a person certified as delinquent in payment of Wisconsin state taxes. ... The supreme court scheduled a public hearing for Oct. 24 at 9:30 a.m.

The board unanimously supported the Group and Prepaid Legal Services Committee's request to prepare a petition proposing changes to SCR 11.06 concerning attorney participation in group and prepaid legal services plans in Wisconsin. ...

The board supported the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Petition 06-02, as requested by the Government Lawyers Division and the Appellate Practice and Family Law sections, to amend Wis. Stat. 809.19(3). The petition proposes that a respondent who is not a party in interest to a child custody or placement appeal that does not raise issues of child support, specifically a DWD county office, may file a statement that no brief will be filed.

The board supported the Executive Committee's recommendation to suspend sales of online fillable forms to nonmembers until the committee has completed its evaluation. ...

Marcia Lucas, Milwaukee, will fill the board vacancy created when Margaret Hickey was elected board chair.

Here are the minutes of the Board's July 21, 2006 meeting [14 pp. Word].