By: dmc-admin//August 3, 2009//
Bill Fischer has spent his legal career in complex civil litigation at Kohner, Mann & Kailas SC
His practice includes securities arbitration, litigation involving Wisconsin sales and use tax, insurance bad faith, intellectual property infringement and unfair competition, and Wisconsin Fair Dealership cases.
He is currently engaged in multidistrict litigation in Nevada, representing a class of Wisconsin plaintiffs, alleging antitrust violations and price manipulation in the natural gas industry.
Recently, he successfully established the existence of a contact in a case in the Western District of Wisconsin, despite the absence of a written contract, proving the existence of a contract with only oral representations and unsigned materials. Besides establishing the contract, the case also resulted in a $4.5 million jury verdict in favor of his client, one of the largest verdicts in Wisconsin ever based on an oral contract.
Q&A
Who is your favorite Supreme Court justice of all time?
William Rehnquist
What is your favorite U.S. Supreme Court opinion?
U.S. v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549
What was your worst law school course?
Federal tax
What do you consider to be the most overrated virtue?
Maybe obedience, because it isn’t virtuous if it is blind
What is the first concert you went to?
The Monkees. No, really
Who are your favorite writers?
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, J.R.R. Tolkein, Orson Scott Card and Jim Butcher
What word in the English language do you wish you had invented?
What is your favorite quote?
“The best way to say anything is just to say it.” — Johnny Cash
What famous person would you most like to have a drink with?
Trevor Hoffman