Notice of Claim Statute – Affirmative Defense or Jurisdictional Prerequisite?
The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently clarified that noncompliance with the notice of claim statute is an affirmative defense and not a jurisdictional prerequisite to filing suit.
Prisoner Litigation Reform Act’s Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies Requirement: Inapplicable if Grievance Process Unavailable or Prisoner Uninformed
Failing to exhaust one’s administrative remedies is a prevalent affirmative defense in prisoner civil rights litigation.
LKG Partners Named Wisconsin SuperLawyers Yet Again
Attorneys Samuel J. Leib, Douglas S. Knott and Sean M. Gaynor were each individually selected through a peer review process as Wisconsin Super Lawyers in the field of medical malpractice defense.