Casimir Laska isn’t your typical student studying computer security and networking at Waukesha County Technical County. That's because he’s also a patent attorney at Michael Best.

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Bruce Deadman found his calling while he was a summer intern during law school.

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Anthony Marino enjoys learning all he can about different businesses — something that comes in handy as a business transactional attorney with Quarles & Brady LLP in Milwaukee.

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Running a business is challenging enough, but throw in legal issues and the headaches can mount.

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For Sherry Coley, it’s all about solving clients’ problems.

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With a Chicago policeman for a father, John Halpin never imagined he would grow up to be an attorney.

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Tony Renning has seen many changes in the past five years.

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Sara Ackermann drills down what she does every day into three words: sex, drugs and drama.

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Michael Dahm has carefully crafted a legal practice that brings together his interests in the law and finance.

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Maybe it’s because he majored in science and worked in that field for several years in California before attending law school in New York, but Bill Gardner enjoys it when cases are complicated.

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Charles Derenne feels fortunate he got in on the ground floor of the structured settlement planning industry as it started to take shape in the late 1980s.

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Sarah Semrow didn’t take the usual path to becoming an attorney.

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Chief Judge Richard Brown loves the creative process of writing opinions. It’s one of the things he will miss most when he leaves his longtime post with the state Court of Appeals on Aug. 1.

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Kadie Jelenchick always found herself intrigued by science and engineering.

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Dan Miske found out firsthand that sometimes where you live can influence your career path.

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Legal cases can sometimes move slowly, taking months or years before they’re resolved. That’s not necessarily the case with employment and worker’s compensation cases.

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It’s rare to find an attorney fluent in Chinese and even more rare to find an attorney in Wisconsin who studied law in China, but David Mungenast of Hansen Reynolds Dickinson Crueger LLC in Milwaukee falls into both categories.

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For Josh Johanningmeier, it all comes down to facts.

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You don’t have to flip through too many television channels to realize the legal profession provides plenty of fodder for good drama. But for Jed Roher, an attorney with Godfrey & Kahn in Madison, the similarities just aren’t in the courtroom.

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Thomas Kyle says the only way that personal-injury lawyers like himself can effectively present clients' stories before a jury is to get to know them.

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When John Busch joined Michael Best & Friedrich more than 39 years ago, the firm was expanding its litigation practice, so the new attorney decided to check it out.

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For Jeremy Perri, there was never a Plan B.

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A summer internship at American Family Insurance Co. after her first year of law school brought clarity to Susan Allen and what path of law she would pursue after graduation.

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Carissa Giebel realizes most people want to avoid seeing an attorney, but she’s happy she’s an exception to the rule.

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Megan Senatori's litigation defense practice is all about strategy.

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When an employee leaves a company, there’s always the potential they may take important intellectual property or trade secrets with them. When they do, businesses rely on Quarles & Brady LLP partner Nicole Druckrey to help clean up the mess.

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While sitting in class at the University of Wisconsin Law School, Patricia Gibeault saw an opportunity.

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Laura Stack's clients call her at some of the worst times of their lives.

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Long before John Mitby established himself as a construction attorney, he built air strips and roads in Southeast Asia.

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Working on a merger and acquisition case during a law school internship was all Gretchen Cleveland needed to convince her to move toward corporate law.

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