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Kasper gets into new ballgame for Brewers

By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//September 22, 2016//

Kasper gets into new ballgame for Brewers

By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//September 22, 2016//

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Kellen Kasper - Assistant corporate counsel for the Milwaukee Brewers (Staff photo by Kevin Harnack)
Kellen Kasper –
Assistant corporate counsel for the Milwaukee Brewers (Staff photo by Kevin Harnack)

When Kellen Kasper sets a goal, there’s no stopping him.

After working as an intern for the Milwaukee Brewers while he was a student at Harvard Law, Kasper decided that one day he wanted to work there. Now, he’s assistant corporate counsel for the team.

It may have been exactly what he wanted to do, but it wasn’t a straight shot from law school to the Brewers.

Before taking his position with the MLB team in August, he worked as a securities and business-litigation attorney at Foley & Lardner’s Milwaukee office.

Kasper found the six-year experience incredibly rewarding. He says he enjoyed getting to know his clients’ businesses. And then there was the pro bono work.  Foley gave him an opportunity to dabble in something different — criminal appeals before the 7th Circuit.

“It’s the same skills but a completely different ballgame,” Kasper said.

The most rewarding case he worked on was the criminal appeal of a Hindu priest. He ended up handling the case entirely on his own.

Although Kasper ultimately lost the case, he was able to give the priest the sense that he got his day in court.

“The most rewarding thing was gaining his trust as an attorney,” Kasper said. “Whether right or wrong, he’d gotten a sense that there wasn’t a sense of justice in the system.”

Kasper said his time at Foley also gave him some leeway to take on the kinds of cases he wanted. It’s those opportunities that young attorneys should relish instead of despairing.

“Make your career what you want it to be,” he said. “… And make time to do what you really want to do, put in some extra time to do it so that at the end of the day you’re really passionate about what you do. Always be receptive to the right opportunity.”

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