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Sharon Manlick wears a myriad of hats at Axley Brynelson; maybe none more important than chief morale booster.

These days, there’s a lot that a spiffy website, a sharp social-media presence and a keen eye for the hot topics of the day can do for your law firm.

Gloria Lund is often referred to as the face of Axley Brynelson.

During her 16 years at Hupy and Abraham, Ashley Molley has earned a reputation as a go-to person at the firm.

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When Don Lins was a senior in high school, he realized his calling was to work with numbers.

The Wisconsin Law Journal honored 21 Unsung Heroes at an event on Thursday at the Grain Exchange in downtown Milwaukee. More than 200 people were in attendance to honor the people who excel behind the scenes.

Joan Bernaden, a legal secretary and work coordinator at Quarles & Brady’s Milwaukee office, is the person whom everyone loves. Her colleagues describe her as a diligent and loyal employee, a trusted confidant and friend, and a sassy personality whom clients love to be around.

Wendy Schlies’ title may be paralegal, but that word falls far short of summing up everything she does at Godfrey & Kahn.

Erica Marty started working at Stafford Rosenbaum in 1995 as an office services assistant. From the start, she made a big impression.

Even after spending five years working as a deputy court clerk in Milwaukee County, Janelle Schmidt is still learning something new every day.

It’s clear that Jacob Gardner cares deeply about his job and the people he works alongside. Ask him a few questions about how he ended up at Stafford Rosenbaum, and he’ll give you more than enough background. But it’s not just for show. His fellow employees say his zeal is 100 percent genuine. Gardner started at the Madison-based firm in ...

The Sheboygan County sheriff deputy Chad Schoen wants to make a difference every day he comes to work.

The opportunity to continuously learn keeps Laura Olsen enthusiastic about her role as a senior legal-research specialist at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

Although some people shy away from difficulty, Emma Zoch embraces it.

Anne Peterson views her job at Falk Legal Group as requiring her to do whatever is necessary to help attorneys and staff employees there achieve or maintain their standard of excellence.

As deputy law librarian at the Wisconsin State Law Library, Amy Crowder regularly contemplates ways to keep the library’s 135,000 physical items and nearly five miles of bookshelves useful in an increasingly digital world.

Jennifer Dedolph, senior legal research specialist at Quarles & Brady, calls her career “a series of fortunate events.”

Alison Cefalu has a talent for turning an ordinary event into an extraordinary one.

A lot has changed since Betty Karnes was hired in 1983 as a file clerk at Michael Best & Friedrich. Advancements in technology have greatly changed most day-to-day tasks at law offices. And, of course, email and cellphones have forever altered the way employees and clients communicate with each other. Karnes, now a finance and accounting specialist, has not only ...

In the past five years, Eric Ellis has made more than 1,000 videos for Hupy and Abraham. That sounds like a lot, but Ellis is not complaining. Ellis, multimedia specialist at the firm, said every day at Hupy and Abraham is different. Sometimes he’ll be out at a local event filming video; at others, he’ll be working as a volunteer ...

When people stop James Livingston in the hallways of Quarles & Brady, they have his undivided attention — no matter how important their issue or what he has on his long to-do list.