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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While working in environmental consulting, Allison Reimann dealt with a lot of regulations and came to discover she had an aptitude for understanding legal matters. Six years after graduating from college, Reimann headed to law school where she found her ...

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Coming from a family of legal professionals, Connor Valentyn was pretty certain he would become a lawyer himself. The real question was: What type of practice would he pursue?

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When he meets new people and is asked what he does, Max Stephenson prefers to talk about family law rather than volunteering that divorce cases constitute the bulk of his work.

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Shannon Allen views herself as a problem-solver.

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When Josh Czuta worked as an attorney at Liberty Mutual Insurance and saw workers’ compensation cases begin to arrive on his desk, he was unsure what to think.

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Craig Stoehr had practiced law around the world, from Qatar and London, before he decided to return to his home state of Wisconsin earlier this year.

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