About
Tamara B. Packard is a Partner within the Madison, Wisconsin law workplace Cullen Weston Pines & Bach LLP. Ms. Packard has been working towards regulation since 1994, broadly speaking inside the areas of litigation and appeals, emphasizing employment, exertions and civil rights law. She changed into named a Wisconsin Rising Star in Employment and Labor Law for 2006 and 2007, as announced in Milwaukee Magazine. She additionally serves as an adjunct professor on the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Ms. Packard frequently represents humans with gender, incapacity and sexual orientation discrimination claims, as well as claims under the salary and hours laws, the State and Federal Family Medical Leave Acts, and in different employment and civil rights disputes. Her litigation and appeals practice also encompasses industrial disputes and serving as neighborhood recommend in complicated federal litigation.
She is admitted to practice within the state courts of Wisconsin and Michigan, the Federal District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, the Eastern District of Michigan and earlier than the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She also often appears on behalf of clients at the Wisconsin Equal Rights Division, the Federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, and other administrative agencies.
Ms. Packard currently serves on the Executive Committee of the James E. Doyle Chapter of the American Inns of Court as Program Chair. She is likewise lively in the Legal Association for Women, the National Employment Lawyers Association and the Wisconsin Employment Lawyers Association.
In a decision released on June five, 2008, Ms. Packard prevailed on behalf of Fair Wisconsin before the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a case related to loose speech, homosexual rights, allegations of defamation, and a frivolous lawsuit. Partner Lester Pines changed into co-suggest. Donohoo v. Action Wisconsin, 2008 WI fifty six.
In 2007, Ms. Packard and Mr. Pines defended, in an Original Action earlier than the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Ethics Board s proper to field Judge Annette Ziegler for her violations of the State Ethics Code. The Supreme Court declined Judge Ziegler s request to take her case, and shortly after Judge Ziegler admitted to the violations, agreed to pay a $five,000 forfeiture, and additionally paid the Board s attorney costs.
In 2003, Ms. Packard won her first case inside the Wisconsin Supreme Court, In re Bar Admission of Vanderperren, 2003 WI 37. The Supreme Court observed that the Board of Bar Examiners wrongfully denied her customer the privilege of practicing regulation in Wisconsin.
In 2001, on behalf of Madison Teachers, Inc., Ms. Packard and Mr. Pines included the academics union s potential to barter domestic companion medical insurance for faculty district personnel. This victory changed into completed inside the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in cooperation with attorneys for the Madison Metropolitan School District. Pritchard v. MMSD and Madison Teachers, Inc., 2001 WI App 62.
Ms. Packard is a past-President of the Board of Directors of Fair Wisconsin Education Fund. She maintains to serve at the Board. She additionally writes a ordinary column for Madison magazine Our Lives. She gives data on criminal topics of specific interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered humans.
By the appointment of the Honorable Shelley J. Gaylord, Dane County Judge, Ms. Packard is a Dane County Supplemental Court Commissioner. This appointment lets in Ms. Packard to officiate at marriage ceremonies throughout Wisconsin.
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- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
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- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law
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- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
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Graduation year: 1991
Graduation year: 1986
