A plea hearing is a time to enter a guilty or no contest plea. In most cases, you will go right to sentencing afterwards. Some plea...

This should definitely be the theme music for Final Pretrials! The last step before trial in most jurisdictions is a hearing called the...

In some cases, our clients benefit from filing and litigating pretrial motions. So what does that mean? A motion is just a formal...

The second court appearances that most of our clients receive after pleading not guilty is a Status Conference. This is exactly what it...

One of the first court appearances that our clients get after the initial appearance is something called a Pretrial Conference. The...

One of the first documents clients see us file on their behalf is a demand for discovery and inspection. This is a formal demand for the...

An arraignment is a hearing that only happens in felony prosecutions in Wisconsin. This hearing occurs after a judge has found probable...

Preliminary hearings, in a nutshell. Also commonly called a preliminary hearing, this is the second hearing in most felony cases in...

We at ZLO are planning on a series of short articles explaining the process of a criminal proseuction and what clients can expect at each...

When Governor Evers assumed office he breathed new life into an institution that Governor Walker refused to use over his eight years in...

Many clients come to us after being arrested for the first time terrified by the prospect of going through life with a criminal record. ...

Forensic location data from cell phones, tablets, and even smart watches is becoming more and more common in criminal prosecutions....

It is fairly common to get a new criminal case, and in the weeks that follow for a client to get served with a lawsuit seeking to seize...

I was driving down South Avenue in La Crosse this morning when a billboard caught my eye: it advised me to know the consequences of...

Almost every week I walk into court with a client who is shocked by language on a criminal complaint charging them as a “repeater.” “But...

What are they? A subpoena is a court order requiring the appearance of a witness (subpoena and certificate of appearance), or the...

We’re currently preparing a half dozen or so trials for the summer, so I thought it would make sense to discuss a little bit of what goes...

Lawyers love to brag about themselves. Successful cases, semi-successful cases, and even cases that weren’t actually successful often...

The number one reason we turn prospective clients away is due to conflict of interest. And the clear majority of those clients ask us...

Last week the Columbia University Justice Lab released a report detailing many of Wisconsin’s most prominent failures in sentencing and...