A nonprofit organization awarded attorneys’ fees in a state court case seeking public records is entitled to recover for fees allocated to the work of in-house counsel, an appellate court in Wisconsin has ruled. The state Court of Appeals has joined the “vast majority of federal authority under federal fee shifting statutes and the Freedom of Information Act that have allowed a for-profit corporation to recover attorney’s fees for in-house counsel.” American Oversight, a nonprofit organization, sought records under the state Public Records Law from the Wisconsin State Assembly and several of its officials. After several rounds of litigation, including a proceeding to obtain a right to...