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More than 380 people came out to celebrate the Wisconsin Law Journal’s 2013 Leaders in the Law on Wednesday at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.

Joseph Fasi II found his career path between commercial breaks.

For most practicing attorneys, the average day involves many hours spent managing caseloads and talking to clients, judges and opposing lawyers.

Mentoring young attorneys is not an elective for Megan Carmody. She considers it a job requirement.

From coffee pods to comic book characters, attorney Allen Arntsen is busy protecting the intellectual property of his many clients.

Not long after Judge Carl Ashley took the bench, he was at a church festival when a man approached saying the judge had sent him to prison.

Intellectual property law is no place for sugarcoating, according to James Boyle, a founding shareholder at Boyle Fredrickson SC, Milwaukee.

When St. Mary’s Hospital about two years ago needed to restructure its medical staff responsibilities and the corresponding bylaws, it tapped attorneys Sarah Coyne and Kevin Eldridge to help.

One afternoon in the late ’90s, Peter Fox decided to check out a distant relative’s law office.

While derivatives might be a commonly used term within the walls of many New York City law firms, it’s rather unique to Milwaukee.

When it comes to community involvement, Washington County Circuit Judge Andrew Gonring has a simple philosophy.

Since her first year in law school, Sheila Heitzig has been working to help women.

As a new lawyer, Bruce Huibregtse’s first file was defending a claim from a plaintiff who slipped on a banana peel.

Michael Hupy has tried and settled numerous million-dollar personal injury cases since he started practicing 39 years ago.

When Kim Hurtado worked construction to put herself through law school, she didn’t know anything about construction law.

John Mitby lets one sentence guide his work in and out of the courtroom: Lawyers solve problems.

Tom Nichols, most often an advisor and transactional attorney, ventured into litigation in 2004 on behalf of a long-term client facing insider-trading charges brought by the SEC.

Appellate lawyer David Pliner could have been a journalist, given his strong writing skills and ability to thrive under deadline pressure.

Tom Pyper never stops learning.

Jay Rothman, CEO of Foley & Lardner LLP, still works for some of the same clients who were there when he started with the firm in 1986. That’s the benefit of business law, he said. “When I started as a summer associate here,” Rothman said, “I got a sense that with the business aspect of law, you tend to have ...

John Rothstein typically represents large entities in high-profile, high-stakes litigation.

For Kirk Strang, there are the publicized changes in education law, and then there’s the rest of the story.

Patrick and Peggy Higdon were asleep in a cabin at the Cedar Grove Resort, about 65 miles northeast of Green Bay. It was the wee hours of July 10, 2006. And something ignited the leaking propane.

As a 3L, Eido Walny dreamed of starting an estate planning boutique firm.

Carol Wessels lost a case two years ago in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, but she’s still happy with the outcome.

The journey of 1,000 miles really does begin with a single step.

Commercial real estate law is all about working through road blocks, according to attorney Stephen Chernof.