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Who’s Doing What: Gonring named Alumnus of the Year; WHD adds litigation team

By: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF//April 11, 2016//

Who’s Doing What: Gonring named Alumnus of the Year; WHD adds litigation team

By: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF//April 11, 2016//

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White joins Probst Law Offices 

Lindsey White has joined Probst Law Offices as an associate attorney.

White practices a full spectrum of family law, including divorce, separation, child support, custody, adoptions and guardianships. Her estate planning work encompasses wills, trusts and powers of attorney.

Reinhart’s Klein to serve on UW Board of Regents

Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren shareholder Tracey Klein has been unanimously confirmed to serve on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents by the state Senate. Klein, who also is chair of Reinhart’s Health Care Practice, was nominated to the position by Gov. Scott Walker. She will begin her seven-year term on May 1.

WHD adds attorneys, Class Action Litigation Team

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek has announced the addition of David Carr to its Litigation Practice Group, and Cynthia Fletcher to its Corporate and Finance Practice Group.

Carr is an attorney in the Milwaukee office of WHD, where he is a member of the Business and Commercial Litigation Team. He has handled various commercial litigation matters, including foreclosure actions, replevins, liquidation of corporations, contract disputes and bankruptcy workouts. He has also provided defense of construction defect claims for roofing, concrete, and HVAC contractors and service providers.

Fletcher is an attorney in the Milwaukee office, where she is a member of the Commercial Finance and Public Finance teams. Fletcher assists financial institutions and borrowers in structuring, documenting, negotiating and closing secured and unsecured commercial financing transactions.

• WHD has also added a Class Action Litigation Team to its more than 50 industry and specialty areas. Attorneys Michael Hayes and Jonathan Ledsky co-lead the multidisciplinary team, which has handled class actions in state and federal courts across the country.

Quarles’ Gonring named Alumnus of the Year 

Michael Gonring
Michael Gonring

Recently retired Quarles & Brady partner Michael Gonring has been named Alumnus of the Year by The Father Danihy Alumni Club of Sigma Alpha Nu, the National Jesuit Honor Society. He was honored during the organization’s 2016 Awards Brunch at the Marquette University Alumni Memorial Union on March 13.

Gonring, who practiced in the firm’s Milwaukee office in the Product Liability Practice Group, served as the firm’s national pro bono coordinator for many years. In that capacity, he drove the efforts of attorneys across the firm in committing to — or increasing — the number of hours they dedicated to pro bono service.

Gonring has volunteered his services to organizations such as the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Legal Action of Wisconsin, and the Sojourner Family Peace Center. He also served on the Milwaukee Bar Association’s Legal Services to the Indigent Committee and chaired the Wisconsin State Bar’s Legal Assistance Committee; was a charter board member of the Equal Justice Fund and the Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission; and served more than 10 years on the board of directors of Legal Action of Wisconsin. He was also a catalyst for Marquette University’s Mobile Legal Clinic, which goes into underserved neighborhoods to provide legal counsel, and helped create a Lawyer for a Day program in domestic abuse court and the Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic at the United Community Center, which is staffed by Quarles & Brady attorneys.

von Briesen opens Fox Valley office

von Briesen & Roper has opened a new office in Oshkosh and added six lawyers to that office. The new lawyers who joined the firm’s new office are Shareholders James Macy, Robert Mathers, Steven Sorenson and William Fischer; associates Courtney Hollander and Thomas Moniz; Research Coordinator William Bracken; and Paralegal Lynn Lemiesz.

The new office is at 2905 Universal St., Suite 2, Oshkosh.

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