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On behalf of Peterson, Berk & Cross, S.C.
Workers involved in Wisconsin unemployment proceedings are often tempted to play the “blame game.” Human instinct may tell you that it’s important to tell the unemployment interviewer or judge your opinions about what the employer did wrong. For example, say a worker was fired because the employer said the worker was “falsifying formwork,” and the […]
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On July 1, 2011, John Kroner, a Wisconsin resident represented by Peterson, Berk & Cross and the firm’s attorney Michael Brown, filed a petition for review with the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Mr. Kroner is appealing a Wisconsin Circuit Court’s decision, upheld by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, to transfer Mr. Kroner’s case from the Wisconsin forum to […]
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If you’re an employee in an employment dispute or legal dispute, you will be tempted- very tempted- to describe events in terms of adjectives or conclusions, i.e. labels. For example, a worker may want to tell a boss or a legal authority “I was treated unfairly” (the operative label being “unfair”), as compared to saying “On June 5th, Supervisor […]
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PBC Attorney Amy Risseeuw has authored two articles for The Verdict, a magazine of the Wisconsin Association for Justice: “Judicial Estoppel, A Cautionary Tale,” and “Apropos of a Cautionary Tale.”
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PBC Attorney Amy Risseeuw has authored two articles for The Verdict, a magazine of the Wisconsin Association for Justice: “Judicial Estoppel, A Cautionary Tale,” and “Apropos of a Cautionary Tale.”
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H-1B employees who have been benched without pay or underpaid often are reluctant to complain against their employers because they fear they will be fired and lose their immigration status. This fear is understandable, but exaggerated. This article will explain why complaining can actually help preserve your status in the United States. The Relationship Between […]
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The H-1B employees who were originally indicted as co-conspirators in connection with Vision Systems work visa fraud scheme have either plead guilty to reduced charges or had charges dismissed last year. Apparently, these results were in exchange for the H-1B workers cooperating with the investigation and prosecution of their employer. Most of those who plead guilty did […]
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The H-1B Legal Rights Blog posted an article in February 2009 about the two owners of the now defunct IT services firm Vision Systems. The owners pleaded guilty to mail fraud in connection with submitting a fraudulent H-1B petition, and they were sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay $236,250 in restitution to USCIS. Vision Systems and its […]
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I recently attended a Wisconsin State Bar seminar, where speaker Egil “Bud” Krogh spoke of his experience as a former Nixon administration attorney, and his admitted involvement in illegal decisions. As noted in a WI Bar article: Krogh authorized a covert operation to burglarize the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist to find information that would discredit […]
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