Civil Lawyers

Class actions are a thorn in the side of large corporations. The help give the little guy a much needed voice. They also help reduce pressure on the legal system. However they do have their detractors who are against the systems and suggest that lawyers are the ones who are truly winning by abusing the system. This article gives some basic information about misdemeanors and felonies in Wisconsin. Each offense is defined and several examples are listed. The punishment for both felonies and misdemeanors are also given. The article also lays out the distinction between the two types of criminal activity.

The Federal government has initiated several programs that aim to cater to the needs of the disabled workers. These include the Social Security Disability benefits that provide financial and medical support to those qualified employees who have incurred disability. Such program is implemented by the Social Security Administration, which also has the authority to evaluate and approve the petitions of the claimants.

We have all heard about people getting their marriages annulled but a lot of people do not know what an annulment is or if it could apply to their marriage. In general, an annulment is a legal action that makes a marriage void. It is different from a divorce because a marriage that has been annulled is considered to have never existed.

Claim and issue preclusion, commonly called respectively res judicata and collateral estoppel, are two of the doctrines applied by defendants and plaintiffs alike to prevent the opposing party from re-litigating either a claim or an issue. The two can almost be thought of as a civil version of double jeopardy.