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Mackenzie Campbell’s love for litigating comes from her lifelong love of musical theater and the years she spent as a ballerina. Litigation, she says, lets you step out of yourself and essentially put on a production.

Although hospice and palliative measures are not usually top of mind when most people think about health care, the topics take up much of Jarod Ferch’s time at his legal practice.

When Benjamin Kaplan gets a new case, he looks at it as a puzzle and immediately begins developing a plan that he believes will lead to the best solution.

Ronnie Murray can connect with his clients in a way few other lawyers can: Even before Murray’s birth, his father was incarcerated, and their earliest encounters came during prison visits.

Growing up in a union household, an eventual career practicing labor and employment law made perfect sense for Jonathan Eiden.

Helping small businesses is what Emil Ovbiagele loves to do most within his legal practice. Small businesses are the reason he opened his own law firm less than two years after graduating from law school.

Mike Hahn accomplished quite a lot before becoming a lawyer.

At work, Maggie Premo keeps on her desk a ticket from a University of Wisconsin basketball game she attended in 2013. It was the game in which Frank Kaminsky scored 43 points, setting the record for the most points scored by a Badger in a single game.

From bartending to helping clients avoid Operating While Intoxicated convictions, Christopher Ehrfurth has found success because of his ability to sympathize and communicate with people.

Kathryn Westfall sees a few similarities between the time she spent playing NCAA Division I soccer while attending Harvard University and the work she has done in corporate law at Reinhart Boerner Van Dueren.

When David Blinka was brought onto the team at Habush Habush & Rottier’s Madison office, his first task — for someone fresh out of law school — could safety be deemed one of Herculean proportions.

As a professor of law, Gwendolyn Leachman offers her students both an out-of-the-ordinary way of looking at legal topics as well as a singular dedication to inclusiveness.

In providing legal services to rural-area hospitals, Jon Kammerzelt gives his clients more than just a band-aid approach.

In becoming a lawyer, Melissa McCord shifted her focus from covering problems to coming up with solutions.

Vincent Scipior enjoys a challenge – something he finds nearly every day as a litigator at Coyne, Schultz, Becker & Bauer.

Marci Kawski said it was a bit of good timing that she began practicing law related to consumer financial services when she did.

Michael Koutnik has family to thank for turning him onto a career as a lawyer.

On her first day at the Madison-based Community Justice Inc., Seep Paliwal knew she belonged there.

Ryan Reid is sometimes asked how he can take on the cases he does.

Lawyering is in John Healy’s blood.

Matthew Giesfeldt has always loved helping children.

About 2-1/2 years into her career at the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Office, Kaitlin Lamb decided she wanted to argue a case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Nicholas Zepnick’s whole plan was to become a mechanical engineer. But then, during a product-development internship with what would later be Oshkosh Corp., he got to work with an intellectual-property lawyer from Foley & Lardner.

Almost 300 people in the Wisconsin law community were in attendance Tuesday to honor the 2017 class of Up and Coming Lawyers at the Harley-Davidson Museum's Garage in Milwaukee.

Evan Tenebruso doesn’t come from the usual lawyer stock.

Describing Nadya Perez-Reyes as a hard worker and role model would be an extreme understatement.

Brendan Bush was introduced to the law at an early age. His father – a plaintiff’s attorney – would often discuss his cases at the dinner table and encourage Bush and his siblings to ask questions.

With a legal practice specializing in taxation, executive compensation and employment benefits, David Eckhardt is constantly kept on his toes.

Whereas some lawyers exclusively represent businesses, individuals or certain government agencies, Zach Ramirez doles out legal advice to the 132 members of the Wisconsin Legislature.

Scott Halloin, without hesitation, said that of the roughly 40 people he’s trained or mentored, James Irvine is “the best.”