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Milwaukee’s Sean Sweeney, who hails from Arizona, enjoys the frontier feel of his Financial Industry Regulation Authority hearings.

Adam Bardosy is many things, including a Tom Petty fan, a basketball superstar (in his son’s eyes) and most recently, a victor at the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

A desire to help children inadvertently launched Cecelia Klingele’s legal career.

A University of Wisconsin Law School tradition holds that students run down the field at Camp Randall Stadium and toss canes over the goal post.

John McDonald’s slogan could be: “Youth is served.”

Margaret Honrath used to roll her eyes at stories from the courthouse.

Think your boss is old, tough or rigid? Well, Clayton Kawski works for the state Constitution.

Waterstone Mortgage Corp. turns 13 this year, and like most early teenagers, it’s hitting a growth spurt.

It’s been said that most people hate lawyers in general, but love their own.

The employment bar was roiled last year when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that a company policy requiring employees to keep interviews related to internal investigations confidential violated federal labor law.

Like flossing, staying up-to-date with corporate governance requirements isn’t something that’s particularly exciting, but it’s necessary to avoid bigger problems down the line.

To answer your question, Mr. Shakespeare, there’s a lot in a name, especially when it’s associated with a law firm changing its name, even slightly.

Judge Pamela Pepper had to bite her tongue when she read in the cover letter for a clerkship position that the applicant was excited about working in “Seattle, one of my favorite cities.”

While many lawyers’ offices contain shelves of reports, Ken Lemke is surrounded by connecting rods and other engine parts.

Catherine Jorgens graduated from law school 15 years ago but still looks forward to the first day of classes.

Chad Anthony has one client but about 160,000 customers at Johnson Controls Inc.

Clinking the champagne flutes in celebration of a new acquisition marks the end of a transaction. But it’s only the beginning when it comes to the hefty task of integrating the new company into the existing enterprise.

Nationally known legal technology expert Ross Kodner, of Cross Plains, died Tuesday from a heart attack. Kodner was 52 and had just celebrated his birthday Sunday.

Milwaukee lawyer Eido Walny has developed such close relationships with his clients that he regularly attends their weddings, bar mitzvahs and Fourth of July barbecues.

Two Wisconsin-based law firms are adopting new strategies to expand and better serve their manufacturing client bases to take advantage of the industry’s resurgence.

Sussex lawyer Dan Riegleman found his niche in the law in the late 1980s after talking to two brothers and a sister-in-law, all chiropractors, at a family gathering.

Bullies can be as prevalent in the courtroom as they are on the playground.

Chase Horne knows there’s always something new and exciting in construction law, even when he’s working on two cases with nearly identical paths.

As a kid, Brian Zimmerman loved visiting his grandfather because he ran a commercial construction firm.

Fresh out of law school in 1978, M. Susan Maloney landed a position with the Defense Research Institute.

Chris Dombrowicki said he is 100 percent satisfied with the 180 he made in 2010, leaving civil litigation after eight years to go in-house at Michels Corp.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended Mequon attorney Patrick Cooper’s law license for two years, retroactive to the expiration of a prior disciplinary suspension ending March 23, 2010.

The people in the law school placement office were no help to Linda Bochert in her search for employment.

As a teenager, Amelia McCarthy played basketball with the boys.

Early in her law career, Laura Przybylinski Finn was involved in prosecuting Steven Oliver for kidnapping and transporting a 13-year-old girl over state lines for illegal sexual purposes.