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The Madison attorney Cheryl Daniels is the newest member of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s leadership team in what has proved to be a historic election for the organization. Daniels defeated Michael May, Madison city attorney, in the April race ...

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As lead of Foley & Lardner’s Government Enforcement Defense & Investigations International Practice group, David Simon can’t think of the law as something that stops at the U.S. border.

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Husch Blackwell has more than doubled its Wisconsin health care team, adding 12 attorneys and a paralegal to its Madison office in the first weeks of 2020. The new hires are the local result of the firm’s national strategy to expand its health-care practice.

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From the shores of Lake Michigan, a new law firm is shining light onto Wisconsin’s open-records and open-meetings laws.

Mark Thomsen has thought a lot about how to make the legal process more fair — especially this year. Thomsen and his firm, Gingras, Thomsen & Wachs, have taken up a number of high-profile civil rights cases in recent months.

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Gov. Tony Evers issued another round of pardons over the weekend. Missing among the list of those pardoned — Brendan Dassey.

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Brendan Dassey’s legal team is advocating for what they are calling Dassey’s best chance at a life outside prison.

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Derek Allen, the new general counsel for the Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin, is using his decade of litigation experience to keep AGC members on job sites rather than in courtrooms.

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Louis Butler is reluctant to say his attempt in 2008 to retain his seat on the state Supreme Court came amid a new low point in Wisconsin judicial elections.

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To many people, nonprofit work might not seem to have much in common with Opportunity Zones and other sorts of federal development incentives.

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Sam Benedict and Robin Dorman started their legal career on the exact same day in 1979 as two of five attorneys in the Waukesha County office of the Wisconsin State Public Defender.

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One of the things Richard Sankovitz misses most about being a judge is being in court.

Brad Fulton started at the bottom at DeWitt.

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Sarah Platt’s work as a management-side employment lawyer looks quite different now than it did five years ago.

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For litigators, putting appearances on the record is a requirement.

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Casey Fleming makes her living as a tax lawyer, a job that may strike many as being regimented and rules-bound as they come.

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Anthony Nudo may be new to the practice of law, but he brings with him a wealth of experience in business and real estate.

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Kathleen Gionis went to law school to do more than become a lawyer—she wanted work for herself.

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Before John Goudie found his niche in paralegal work, he had a variety of experiences.

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Working with employee-benefits clients and institutional investors clients, Tiffany R. Reeves finds every day is different and she always has more to learn.

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The saying “timing is everything” could have been originally written about Stacie Kalmer and the way she ended up with a successful employee benefits practice at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren.

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Grant Zielinski knows he needs to do a little explaining when responding to the question: What do you do for a living?

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One of the things Amy MacArdy enjoys most about her work is that no two cases are the same.

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John Gardner, a partner at DeWitt, Ross & Stevens in Madison, rarely has a dull day.

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Robert Burns did not plan to specialize in employment law for public-sector employers. As is often true for many things in life, his career came about gradually.

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Juscha Robinson believes she makes a difference by providing her clients with peace of mind about the future.

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Before starting law school, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge John DiMotto thought his legal career would mostly entail practicing law from behind a desk.

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For Leila Nadim Sahar, strategy plays a big role in the business-litigation cases she handles at Kravit, Hovel & Krawczyk.

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Sara McNamara believes most people do not understand what she does as an associate attorney in Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren’s banking and bankruptcy practice.

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Derek Campbell readily admits he followed in his father’s footprints – even going to law school as an older student.

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