Peter J. Block
Milwaukee City Attorney’s Office
Milwaukee
Thomas Cameron
Attolles D. Law, s.c.
Milwaukee
Kail J. Decker
City of West Allis Attorney's Office
West Allis
Paul M. Ferguson
Wisconsin Department of Justice
Madison
Brian E. Running
City of Waukesha
Waukesha
8:30 am Public Records & Open Meetings Primer
- Introduction to Wisconsin’s Public Records & Open Meetings Laws
- Record Requests
- Meetings that must be held in an open forum, and when groups cand go into closed sessions
Peter J. Block, Kail J. Decker, Paul M. Ferguson
9:30 am Contracting as a Local Government
- Contract drafting fundamentals
- Practical contract drafting pointers
- Unique nature of local government contracts
Brian E. Running
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Who’s the Client Anyway? Navigating the Ethical Realities of Representing Public Entities
- Confidentiality issues
- Conflicts of Interest
- The entity as the client
- How to ethically interact with the public
- How to work with elected officials
- What happens when an elected official behaves badly?
Thomas D. Cameron
12:00pm Program Concludes
- Better advise public entities on public records requests and open meetings compliance
- Understand the unique legal and practical considerations involved in government contracting
- Navigate confidentiality, conflicts, and other ethical issues that arise when representing public entities
- Gain greater confidence when working with elected officials, government employees, and members of the public
- Government lawyers
- Administrative law practitioners
- Municipal attorneys
- Attorneys interested in governmental legal work
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