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Twenty-six attorneys from a variety of practice areas were honored Thursday night as Wisconsin Law Journal’s 2013 Up and Coming Lawyers.

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Amy MacArdy never misses an opportunity to grow.

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Public defender Nicole Masnica proved her worth just two months after starting her legal career.

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Jesse Blocher’s January court victory brought his client to tears.

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There aren’t too many planes, but there definitely are many trains and automobiles in Ben Crouse’s life.

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

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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.

Noah Domnitz meets people at their worst.

Attorney Jared Potter’s experience on his family’s cranberry farm taught him that it takes more than a strong back and green thumb to keep such an operation going through five generations.

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Jessica Reginato grew up surrounded by litigators, but it wasn’t until her junior year in college that she decided she would go to law school, too.

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Steven Laabs is open to where life takes him.

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

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Associate Ruhee Divgi credits great timing as the reason why she began working with some of Quarles & Brady’s biggest clients shortly after she joined the firm.

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Katherine Rist’s plate is full, but she likes it that way.

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Timothy Posnanski, a litigator at Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek SC, grew up on tales of the courtroom.

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Nathan Dineen’s name is synonymous with DUIs.

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.

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Nicole Rosen says she is in the minority among attorneys: She works in the same practice area that drew her to law school in the first place and has a personal connection to her chosen field.

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First, Matthew Fortney embarked on a career as a construction engineer.

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

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Success in the law often is less about flash and sparkle than about having the stamina to sift through the kinds of details that could put some people to sleep.

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As a second-grade teacher, Kevin Henry appreciated the variety that came with teaching the day’s math, history and language lessons.

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

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If Tyler Wilkinson had decided to be a John Deere salesman or auctioneer, he never would have landed nine not-guilty verdicts for a client who was facing nine felony charges.

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

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Whether the challenge is health care regulation, medical innovation, getting a business off the ground or even the occasional regional conflict, Mark Dahlby doesn’t like to wait in the wings.

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