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On Topic: Walker fires law firm defending state’s domestic partnership law

Gov. Scott Walker has fired the lawyers defending the state in a challenge to Wisconsin?s domestic partnership law. But the governor?s spokesman said his office “is still working to appoint a new counsel to the case.” Madison attorney Lester Pines informed Dane County Circuit Judge Daniel Moeser in a March 22 letter that his firm, Cullen Weston Pines & Bach, had been “terminated” by Walker as counsel for the state in the lawsuit filed in 2009 by Julaine Appling, president of Wisconsin Family Action, a conservative advocacy group.