I remember the first time I met Justice Abrahamson. She was running for the Supreme Court. I was not a lawyer yet- I was just a kid home from college. I remember Judge McMahon, Justice Abrahamson, and my mother Gilda Shellow stuffing envelopes for her campaign on my bed on the third floor of my parents’ house. As always, my wooly standard poodle Muffin Man, jumped on the bed and the neatly addressed envelopes scattered. Justice Abrahamson reached down to pick the scattered envelopes up from under the bed. To my great embarrassment, she pulled out a stuffed animal that had a chop stick affixed ..read more

These police tortured Adam Trammell to death. This was not “help”. They were not protecting or serving anyone. Naked, cold, confused, alone, unarmed and in his own bathroom and crying for Jesus to take him, as he needlessly suffered 18 electrical discharges from police tasers. Attorneys Robin Shellow of The Shellow Group and Mark Thomsen of Gingras, Cates & Wachs are disgusted by this callous indifference to another human being and are in the process of filing a civil rights suit. This is the Stanford Prison  Experiment brutally come to life, but the electrocution is real this time. The pa ..read more

Counting is a big part of my law practice. The cynics among us think that those who practice law just count money. They are wrong.  Since 1998, I have counted recovering clients (supersized addicts) whose addictions have taken them to the brink of hell and who have yet found the tools to go from Zero to Hero.  Every hour of every day, thousands of heroes are there to help zeros become heroes. I count better angels. For every better angel who has crossed my path I plant a flower in The Shellow Group Recovery Garden. If I could invent a pill that would alleviate the terror of loved ones facing ..read more

There’s a phrase that gets tossed around, especially around this time of year, about death and taxes being the only sure things in life. While that may be true, with regard to our topic here today, I’d like to propose an amendment to that old time-worn chestnut. From my experience, there are at least two other sure things that you can count on: 1) teenagers in America are going to experiment with sex, and 2) a vocal segment of America will raise a hue and cry about it being the end of civilization as we know it. So, with that in mind, “Let’s talk about sex, baby!” While the first premise is ..read more

While most are by now familiar with the various statistics chronicling America’s out of control levels of mass incarceration—2.4 million citizens locked up (roughly the size of Jamaica’s entire population), one out of every 100 Americans behind bars (with one out of every 35 under some form of criminal justice supervision), making us the world’s largest jailer (more than Soviet Russia under Stalin’s infamous gulags)—but perhaps what many did not know is the ignominious local aspect to this trend. Milwaukee’s north side communities, in particular the area proscribed by the 53206 zip code, repre ..read more

“Cyber Monday.” Either you love it or, hate it. My mother used to call it retail therapy. Whether you’re getting your finances in order for a deal on a new TV, or dreading the thought of having to face hordes of frenzied shoppers, we’re all familiar with the e-commerce holiday “Cyber Monday.” Darknet sales and discounts are booming and every purchase on the darknet may be from a site now operated by law enforcement. If the site is not operated by law enforcement, postal inspectors working with the DEA, FBI or local law enforcement may arrive at your doorstep with package in hand. And, sometime ..read more

House passes Marijuana Banking Bill with bipartisan support, amid uncertain prospects in Senate September 26th, 2019 By Robin Shellow, Attorney WASHINGTON, D.C. — With all of the other news of Ukrainian interference in the 2020 election, a bipartisan effort by the House of Representatives passed the Marijuana Banking Bill, on the same day that Juul suspended all of its advertising in the United States. The passage of the Marijuana Banking Bill is one more step in the argument that unlike regular americans, corporations like the fortune 500 company Constellation Brands, A-B InBev, and Curalea ..read more

Village of West Milwaukee Settles Taser Death Case in Wisconsin The Village of West Milwaukee pays 2.5 million to settle Taser death only 13 months after Estate of Adam Trammell filed a lawsuit On June 17, 2019, The Village of West Milwaukee adopted a resolution to pay the Estate of Adam Trammell 2.5 million dollars. On May 25, 2017, two West Milwaukee police officers discharged their tasers 15 times into the body of Adam Trammell as he was naked in his bathtub. The officers continually and incorrectly shouted “Brandon,” while repeatedly tasering a young man who was experiencing an acute psyc ..read more

Holiday Emergencies Holidays are particularly excruciating for the families of addicts. It is not that law enforcement targets your adult sons and daughters struggling with addiction during the holiday season. But, to a loving parent it seems that way. But, the reverse is sort of true. The expectations felt by those sons and daughters who have not yet found themselves, who have not gotten married or started a family, who took a year off before college that turned into a decade, or who dropped out of school altogether and now feel the disappointment tumbling down on them. The stress mounting w ..read more

THIS BUD’S FOR YOU Three companies — Molson Coors, Constellation Brands and The Shellow Group — are at the forefront of their fields in the effort to bring legal marijuana products to America The American brewing giant Molson Coors (owner of Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing Company) has entered into a joint venture with the Quebec-based corporation Hydropothecary (HEXO)—one of the many Canadian pot companies now traded on an American Exchange  In fact, in the past year, the dysfunctional marijuana dis-regulation continues at a pace that one can only keep up with by reading daily subscriptions t ..read more