About
Effective November 1, 2008, I opened my personal law workplace in Brookfield, Wisconsin (in Waukesha County, a suburb of the City of Milwaukee). In addition to being extra centrally located to my non-public customer base, this circulate additionally displays the truth that as my practice became increasingly more focused on asset planning and debt reorganization, it led to my former law office extra regularly encountering conflicts of hobby with enterprise companies and economic companies it represented (or, preferred to represent!).
Generally, I will keep to provide services in the following regions of problem as they generally tend to have interaction, and at the indexed fees:
A. Personal/enterprise debt reorganization/resolution. My services right here are based totally on assisting customers either removing debt issues that abate their business, or in exiting the enterprise beneath instances wherein safety of the owner s personal belongings are maximized, to the extant legally viable. This involves the usage of such tools as Chapter 7 and eleven bankruptcies; Chapter 128 state law liquidations: and personal asset protection plans. To that cease, I am representing only a few area banking worries [AnchorBank; NorStates Bank) to cast off conflicts of hobby which, some distance too regularly, may be influencing the vigour of representation offered with the aid of other corporations on this locale. Fees on this exercise region will variety from $250 to $265 in step with hour.
B. Employment matters and litigation. For businesses, I provide offerings in responding to worker claims, and helping in employment choices wherein a declare ability exists. I will also recommend higher-compensated employees about exploring their options in conflict with their employer. To this location, I deliver my experience as a former claims investigator for the Wisconsin Equal Rights Division and years of representing every side in - generally - contested employment disputes, where trials or administrative hearings are likely to occur. My litigation (court docket work) subjects will focus on misrepresentation, fraud and/or administrative code violations, such as misleading business practices. Fees right here will range from $225-$245, again driven by using the complexity and breadth of the troubles.
C. General enterprise consulting, planning and setup topics, consisting of subsidiary and affiliate implementation, as a means to shield the core business within the occasion a planned enlargement or challenge both fails, or is greater a success than anticipated. Generally, these services could be at an hourly fee variety of $2 hundred-225, based totally on the size and complexity of the client s assignment.
A word about the rate stages: Generally, these ranges are markedly less than charged with the aid of comparable practitioners with comparable enjoy inside the issue fields. Nor do I expect to growth them any time soon. The business model of a "downtown firm," with annual price increases referred to as
popular in their engagement letter isn't one I care to observe. I actually have a protracted courting with maximum all of my gift purchaser base; they anticipate effective provider and I intend to maintain my overhead beneath control to eliminate fee spiraling for such offerings.
It is going with out saying that a commercial enterprise seeks clients that pay timely for truthful offerings; but the large you develop within the provider fields, the tougher it's far to maintain proper to that aim . . . and different clients tend to suffer for the consequences of that increase. I am proud that my exercise has been actually client referral-primarily based. After initial discussion on a remember, I quote a rate charge from the above levels and confirm it by using letter. I additionally fee as "fees" only out-of-pocket costs (for criminal filings, court docket reporter prices) and, sometimes, photocopying; scanning; mailing, if a huge quantity is handled on my cease (as opposed to being copied and issued at your very own facilities).
Personally, I received the coveted A-V rating from Martindale-Hubbell (typically identified as the foremost and longest-established legal professional assessment carrier) again in 1991 (one of the first to gain such at my former company).
Prior to carrying out personal exercise, I served as a regulation clerk (prison researcher) to the Wisconsin Supreme Court after graduating cum laude from Marquette Law School, wherein I was one of the editors of its Law Review. During law school, I become hired as a area investigator for the Equal Rights Division (through a regulation college clinical software) of the State of Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (investigating discrimination claims).
I actually have additionally been president of the Alumni Association for the Law School, and served two phrases as its representative at the Marquette University National Alumni Association s Board of Directors. Early on, I turned into offered the Volunteer Lawyer of the Year for the Milwaukee Young Lawyers Association/Legal Action of Wisconsin joint program for imparting criminal services to the network for complex employment topics; and still offer offerings on financial ruin topics for its cutting-edge application.
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- Bankruptcy
- Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Chapter thirteen Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Debt Relief
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
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Graduation year: 1972
Graduation year: 1969
