2000 to 2009
Topics & Credits
- Organization, Administration and Authority of Joint Commissions Created by Section 66.30 Agreements
- First Amendment Rights of Public Employees and Employee Discipline
- Specific Topics on Municipal Employment Wage and Hour Issues
- "It's None of Your Business": Access to Private Information About Public Employees
- Nuts and Bolts Overview of Competitive Bidding Requirements in Public Construction Contracts
- Reports from the Front Lines of the Border Wars: Annexation, Incorporation and Boundary, Revenue Sharing and Service Agreements
- Update on Municipal Authority to Manage the Public Rights-of-Way
- Nuts and Bolts Overview of Municipal Authority to Regulate Land Divisions
- Variance Law in Wisconsin: Is Your ZBA's Actual Practice at Variance With the Law?
- Development Moratoria and Other Legally Defensible Methods of Controlling Growth
- Chapter 66 Reorganization and Other Recent Legislation Affecting Municipalities
Topics & Credits
- Recent Cases of Interest to Municipal Attorneys
- Update on Regulation of Adult Entertainment
- Ethical Dilemmas For Municipal Attorneys
- Municipal Actions and Policies Affecting Congregate Living Under the Fair Housing and Fair Housing Amendments Acts
- Crashing the Party: The Fourth Amendment and Underage Drinking Parties
- Bankruptcy Issues for Municipal Attorneys
- Wisconsin's Public Sector Bargaining Law: What the Municipal Attorney Needs to Know
- Personalities, Policy and the Polka: The Wisconsin Legislative Process
- Municipal Court: Pros and cons, Procedures, and Collection of Forfeitures
- Administrative Inspections/Razing of Buildings
- Sage Advice From Well-Seasoned Municipal Attorneys or "What I whish Someone Had Told Me When I Began Practicing Municipal Law"
- Development in The Core, at The Fringe, And Beyond Taxation - Strategies for Recovering costs of development
- The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act: What Does It Mean for Your Municipality?
- Municipal Concerns Relating to Regulation of Railroads and Railroad Property
Topics & Credits
- Recent Cases of Interest to Municipal Attorneys
- Cable Television Franchise Renewals
- Vignettes Illustrating Ethical Dilemmas For Municipal Attorneys
- Nonconforming Uses, Structures and Variances
- Making Zoning Boards of Appeals More Effective and Lawful
- Water Rights 101
- Equitable Estoppel in Light of the Willow Creek Ranch and Outagamie County Decisions
- Alternative Revenue Collection Mechanisms for Municipalities Using A Utility Structure
- Valuing and Managing Diversity: Strategies For Preventing Employment Discrimination Complaints and Litigation
- Family Medical Leave Act
- Update on Reasonable Accommodation Under the Americans With Disabilities Act
- Creative Statutory Schemes to Abate Public Nuisances, Lead Paint Hazards
- and Wisconsin's New Receivership Act
- Direct Legislation
- Development of Brownfields
- Risky Business: Investigating Employment Matters
- Legislative Update
Topics & Credits
- Intergovernmental Consolidation and Privatization of Municipal Services: Overview & Panel Discussion
- The Office of Lawyer Regulation
- Quasi-Judicial and Administrative Decision Making: Ensuring A Fair Hearing
- Takings Issues: Case Law and Legislation
- Selected Environmental Issues: Regulation of Wetlands and Development of Closed Landfills
- Selected Police Issues: Search and Seizure
- Selected Topics Concerning Alcohol Licensing
- Update on Municipal Extraterritorial Plat Approval Authority
- Doing More With Less and Ensuring Your Municipality Gets What It Is Due: Business Improvement Districts; and Collecting Delinquent Personal Property Taxes
- Sage Advice From Seasoned Municipal Attorneys
- Municipal Attorneys Acting in More Than One Capacity
- Lawyering Your Community Through A Disaster
- Tips for Drafting Clear Ordinances and Resolutions
- Regulation of Adult Entertainment
- Frequently Asked Questions Arising Under Wisconsin's Open Meetings and Public Records Law
Topics & Credits
- Recent Cases of Interest to Municipal Attorneys
- The Wisconsin Department of Justice's New Public Integrity Unit
- Ethical Considerations in Public Sector Law
- Liquor License Suspensions/Revocations
- Municipal Compliance With HIPAA
- Understanding the New FRA Interim Final Rule Governing Train Whistles at Highway-Rail Crossings
- Big Box Development: Its Impacts, and Tools for Management and Control
- Fear Firing: A Real Threat of Violence, or Just the Postal Worker Metaphor?
- Local Government Establishment Clause Issues
- Delegation of Local Government Authority
- Hot Topics in Property Tax Litigation
- Tapping a Virtual Cracker Barrel: A Miscellany of Legal Issues Involving Local Government & Technology
- Traditional Cracker Barrel Round-Table Discussion
- RLUIPA: Religious Freedom and Land Use Law
- Understanding the Recent Amendments to Wisconsin's Public Records Law
- Update on Municipal Immunity
- Legislative Update
Topics & Credits
- Recent Zoning / Land Use Cases of Interest to Municipal Attorneys
- How (Not) to Commit Malpractice with Your Computer
- Ethics and the Hollywood Lawyer
- Using Intergovernmental Agreements and Revenue Sharing Under Wis. Stat. Sec. 66.0305 to Effectuate Border Stability, Shared Services, Regional Cooperation and Utility Infrastructure Payments
- Police and Fire Commissions: Overview and Update
- FLSA: The New Exemptions and Other Developments of Interest
- Annexation Law Overview and Update
- Eminent Domain: Public Purposes and Private Uses
- Bankruptcy Law for the Municipal Attorney
- Regulating Adult Uses
- Police Department Policies on Use of Force and Tasers: Process and Legal Authority
- Surviving Career Killers: Burnout, Stress and Depression
- Municipal Authority to Charge Fees
- Briefing in High-Volume Courts: Skeptical Judges and Death to Puzzles
- Inclusionary and Exclusionary Zoning
- Understanding Lobbying Regulations and a Specific Look at the League's Lobbying Efforts
Topics & Credits
- A Wisconsin Municipal Attorney in Afghanistan: An International Perspective
- Municipal Employment and First Amendment Issues
- Ethics 2000 Rule Changes: What's New and What's Different
- Understanding and Complying With Wisconsin's Open Meeting Law
- Understanding the Eminent Domain Process
- Municipal Budgeting 101, Including GASB 45 Requirements Pertaining to Reporting of Retiree Benefits
- Unwinding the Kelo Spin: Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions on the 5th Amendment and What They Mean for Wisconsin
- Intellectual Property Issues for Local Governments: What You Should Be Protecting
- Compensation Issues in Eminent Domain Cases
- Protecting Your Municipality With a Good Developer's Agreement
- Zoning: Exploring the Outer Limits
- Dealing With email Records: What Is Your Municipality Doing and What Should It Be Doing?
- Traditional Cracker Barrel Round-Table Discussion
- Wisconsin's Public Records Law: The Municipal and Media Perspectives
- Hot Topics in Public Records: Disclosure of Internal Investigation Records
- Telecommunications Act Reform: Cable Franchising Rights and Municipal Broadband Authority
- Legislative Update
Topics & Credits
- Cable Update and Utility Relocation Fees and PSC 130
- Emergency Preparedness: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina
- The New Rules of Professional Conduct: How They Affect In-house Municipal Attorneys,
- Attorneys in Private Firms Who Represent Municipalities, and Municipal Prosecutors
- Municipal Case Law Update
- Public Contracts: Nuts and Bolts
- Municipal Boundaries: Overview of Annexation and Incorporation in Wisconsin, Mediation of
- Annexation Disputes, and Cooperative Boundary Agreements
- Dealing With Nuisance Properties by Community Prosecution
- Employment Law: Hot Topics
- Local Governments and Free Speech
- Hot Topics in Property Tax Litigation
- Outside the Borders: Law Enforcement Authority and Liability for Activity Outside Their Jurisdiction
- Confidentiality and Privilege Issues for the Municipal Attorney
- Recent Developments in the Wisconsin Impact Fee Law
- The Voices of Experience: Long-term Perspectives on Practicing Municipal Law and Service as Municipal Attorneys
- Hot Topics in Public Records
- Hot Topics in Land Use Regulation
Topics & Credits
- Important Changes to Property Tax Procedures
- Using Fees/Charges to Recover Costs of Providing Municipal Services
- Ethics: ABA Rule 1.13 and its Wisconsin Counterpart and Issues of Privilege
- Protecting Municipal Concerns in the Wake of Wisconsin's New Cable Franchise Legislation
- Alcohol License Regulation Issues
- E-Discovery and Municipal Records
- Update on Specific Employment Regulations: FMLA, Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), and New Arbitration Provisions Under Police and Fire Commission Statutes
- Municipal Web Sites, email and Other Technology Issues for Local Governments
- It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature, But it's Fair Game to Regulate Her! Trees, Weeds and Stormwater Regulation
- 2007 Wis. Act 43: Making Cooperative Boundary Agreements Easier
- Case Study in Redevelopment of Blighted Downtown Property Using Pay-As-You-Go TIF
- How NOT to Commit Malpractice With Your Computer
- Public Records Issues
- Wisconsin's New Government Accountability Board
- Avoiding Disaster at the Polls: Averting Your Worst Election-Day Nightmares
- Zoning 101.5
Topics & Credits
- Prevailing Wage Rate Issues
- Supreme Court Term 2008: Reassessing the Fourth Amendment, Qualified Immunity, and Preemption
- Professional Responsibility for the Local Government Lawyer: A Dialogue on Maintaining Your Ethical Responsibilities in the Challenging World of Local Governments
- The Eco-Municipality: Moving Toward a Sustainable Community
- Municipal Finance 101
- Dealing with Distressed Real Estate: A Municipal Perspective
- Open Meeting/Public Record Laws 101
- Flushing Billions of Dollars Down the Drain: New DNR Regulations on Municipal Wastewater Facilities
- Board of Review in a Declining Market
- Wading Through the New Regulatory Tools for Managing Urban Stormwater
- Municipal Responses to a Shrinking Economy: Sharing Services, Managing Financial Risk and Finding Alternative Revenue Sources
- Public Records Issues: Victim’s Rights as a Consideration in the Public Records Analysis, Public Records Law Update and Records Retention
- The “New and Improved" ADA and FMLA
- Municipal Case Law Update