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Maria Gonzalez Knavel remains as determined in retirement as she was when working as a partner for Foley & Lardner.

Martha Heidt stumbled upon a book — and a new career. As a struggling dairy farmer in the late 1980s near Eau Claire, she came across a book on agricultural law while cleaning a barn basement.

Courtroom TV shows such as “The Young Lawyers” gave Mancoske a sense of what lawyers could do in an altruistic way.

A few weeks ago, a graduate of Polk County drug court waited outside of Molly E. GaleWyrick’s Circuit Court chambers.

Roy Wagner’s work in construction law is so attuned to business interests that contractors ask to get sued by him.

John Peterson is a man of faith who represented sexual-abuse victims against the Diocese of Green Bay.

Dan Conley has a list for almost any situation.

R. Timothy Muth writes one blog that attracts the attention of members of the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador and another that covers actuarial law in the United States.

A crumbling pedestrian bridge in Fox Point is not a political lightning rod like some of Wisconsin’s recent contentious debates around the state Capitol. But Fox Point village residents didn’t treat the bridge lightly, filling public meetings and throttling trustees to take action.

Jere McGaffey not only wrote eight volumes on business tax law – he got people to read them.

Outgoing Michael Best & Friedrich legal secretary Lori Ott has let precision and pride guide her career.

An ability to roll with unexpected changes has moved Genny Gibbs-Benesh across the country and kept her in demand as a paralegal.

The Madison man was facing allegations of killing two people while under the influence of cocaine.

Jean Karls’ career can be defined with one word: consistent.

From where Jane Crandall stands, taking in a painting by Botticelli is much like connecting the strokes in a case history.

Phyllis Evans-Carr’s work schedule is overflowing.

Couples that go to Kathryn Grigg for divorce representation sometimes end up living together.

At the Sheboygan County Office of the District Attorney for the past eight years, Joel Urmanski’s best work goes beyond normal courtroom functions.

Kelly Noyes makes her living in the margins.

After spending his undergraduate days as a competitive swimmer, Larry Johnson dove into the deep end of employee representation when he started his law career eight years ago.

Jean La Tour fought her first legal battle when her brother began the fight for his life.

Not to rev her own engine, but Rebecca “Becky” Wickhem House said she has “one of the coolest jobs in the world.”

A mother and a lawyer, Donna Kuchler has not let any one part of her life define her.

Long before she assumed her place at the state’s highest court, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley stood out in Wisconsin’s legal community.

In the juvenile division at the Dane County District Attorney’s office, assistant DA Miriam J. Rohrer prosecutes homicide, sex crimes and assault cases that she said take her to “the darkest parts of human behavior.”

Cari Anne Renlund can remember the case that put her firmly on the path toward becoming an attorney.

For Colleen Meloy, success in the courtroom is both nature and nurture.

Meticulous attention to detail drew Timothy Radelet into law and, in a couple of ways, into state procedure.

Michael Green’s legal work underpins a very public development underway in Madison: redevelopment of The Edgewater Hotel.

Green Bay attorney Gregory Conway credits his family legal pedigree for an extra edge in the confidence department.