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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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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Assistant State Public Defender Jon Padgham is the go-to man for the State Public Defender's Office when it can't find private attorneys who are willing to take on cases from throughout the northeast quadrant of the state.

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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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It’s no understatement to say José Olivieri maintains a busy schedule.

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While Christopher Scherer was working on his engineering degree at Marquette University, he discovered an alternative career possibility: becoming a patent attorney.

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The last place business owners want to be is in a courtroom.

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Alexandria Neal enjoys seeing how her work in real-estate law makes a difference in the wider world.

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Although Melissa Zabkowicz grew up wanting to be an attorney, she did not settle on her corporate law specialty until the summer before her final year of law school.

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Although James Friedman, a shareholder in Godfrey & Kahn’s office in Madison, now feels at home in a courtroom, he actually did not consider a legal career until he had nearly finished earning an engineering degree at Georgia Tech.

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When Peter Sommerhauser walks into his Godfrey & Kahn office, he knows every day will be different.

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Andrew Hitt is driven by a desire to serve the community.

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Litigator Larry Hammond may be retired, but the 90-year-old is not slowing down.

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Christa Westerberg was interested in environmental causes, but knew she didn’t want to be a scientist.

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