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Johnson takes care of business for her clients

By: Dan Shaw, [email protected]//September 18, 2019//

Johnson takes care of business for her clients

By: Dan Shaw, [email protected]//September 18, 2019//

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Danielle Johnson - Neider & Boucher
Danielle Johnson – Neider & Boucher

As a business and real estate attorney at Neider & Boucher, Danielle Johnson is surprised by how many times clients will come to her with questions that aren’t strictly legal in nature.

“Sometimes it’s a strategic problem, it’s a business problem,” said Johnson, who started at the Madison firm in October 2017. “So then, for me, it’s sitting down with them and listening and figuring out what their situation is and what their goals are and how do we plan to meet those goals.”

It’s that sort of advice seeking on unexpected topics that helps ensure her interest in her work never flags. That’s not to say, though, that her bread-and-butter isn’t the typical stuff of business and real estate law. Most of her work hours are still devoted to incorporations, contract drafting, mergers, business dissolutions, succession planning, easements, title exceptions and similar matters.

Even when she isn’t being asked to step outside her specialty, the wide scope of business law means her work never lacks for variety.

“I literally learn something new every day,” Johnson said. “It keeps me thinking, and it keeps me wanting to learn more. If you know everything, it can get boring in a hurry.”

Johnson acknowledges her field isn’t an easy one to get into. When she was studying law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, she discovered that very little of her coursework dealt with business law.

So, when she graduated in 2013, she found herself having to rely greatly on mentors. Her current expertise is the result of both good advice and the hard work she put in first at various Minnesota law firms and then, after moving back to her hometown of Madison, at DeWitt LLP, where she worked for a time before arriving at Neider & Boucher.

Her colleague, Jeffrey Bartzen, praised Johnson for being a fast learner and a person of character. Outside work, he noted, she finds time for organizations like the Doyenne Group, which supports women entrepreneurs.

“She shows maturity and wisdom in her career that is beyond her actual years of practice,” Bartzen wrote in nominating Johnson. “She is excellent at client relations, team building and finding solutions to legal challenges.”

Johnson is quick to return the compliment.

“The only way you really learn this is by doing it day to day over and over again and learning from people who have been doing for 20 or 40 years,” she said. “I’m very fortunate to work with people who have been doing this that long.”

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