The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s Office of Lawyer Regulation has reinstated the law licence of Kenosha County District Attorney Xavier Solis, less than 24 hours after suspending it.
Solis’s licence was suspended on Monday, 14 September, over what the regulator described as a failure to co-operate with one or more investigations into alleged misconduct. A second memorandum, dated Tuesday, confirmed that the suspension had been lifted.
The documents do not explain what Solis allegedly failed to do, or why the Office of Lawyer Regulation decided to reinstate his licence so quickly. The underlying investigations have not been detailed publicly.
The brief suspension came as Solis faced renewed scrutiny over his conduct in office. In February, Kenosha County Judge David Hughes sanctioned him after finding that a court filing contained false and “hallucinated” legal citations and that the use of artificial intelligence had not been disclosed.
Judge Hughes also dismissed two criminal cases brought by Solis’s office, ruling that they should not have proceeded to trial. The cases involved three men accused of breaking into a trucking company in Bristol in 2023 and stealing more than $60,000-worth of goods from trailers.
Defence lawyers had challenged a response filed by Solis in January 2026, alleging that it failed to address the central issues in the case and contained bogus, AI-generated citations. The prosecution had also been accused of missing several court deadlines.
Solis, a former private defence lawyer, was elected Kenosha County district attorney in November 2024 and took office in January 2025. The Office of Lawyer Regulation has not indicated whether the reinstatement marks the end of its investigations.
