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  • May 01, 2024

    Leadership Development Summit: Boosting Careers with Leadership Skills

    State Bar of Wisconsin President Dean Dietrich said that volunteering with the State Bar helped him find his "passion."

    Shannon Green

    2024 Leadership Development Summit

    The State Bar welcomed these 24 lawyers for the 2024 Leadership Development Summit. For photos of the event, visit the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Facebook page.

    May 1, 2024 – State Bar of Wisconsin President Dean Dietrich began volunteering for leadership positions in the State Bar as a young lawyer. And it was through his volunteer work that he found a passion that steered his career path.

    Volunteering is not aways an easy step to make when you’re first starting out in the profession, Dietrich said, because you are busy building your career and making time for family and your own wellness. But, Dietrich says, it is one that you really shouldn’t skip – it is what will help you build your career.

    Dietrich spoke on Saturday, April 20, 2024, at the State Bar of Wisconsin’s G. Lane Ware Leadership Development Summit, which brings together State Bar leaders and new lawyers to give them the tools and inspiration to become leaders as they begin their c​areers.

    Each year, 24 lawyers nominated by State Bar leaders statewide attend the Leadership Development Summit. Participants display leadership capabilities, demonstrate a strong commitment to the legal profession, and possess the potential to be the next generation of State Bar leaders.

    Finding Your Passion, Gaining a Career Boost, and More

    What is the value and importance of volunteering in any capacity with the State Bar? “I have made lifelong friends,” Dietrich said, who has many fond memories of the projects in which he was involved.

    Shannon Green Shannon Green is communications writer for the State Bar of Wisconsin, Madison. She can be reached by email or by phone at (608) 250-6135.

    Also, it allowed him to use his law degree “for something other than the business of law.” That, he said, “gave meaning to my career and a feeling of fulfillment.”

    It was his service on the State Bar’s Professional Ethics Committee – he served by invitation – that helped him discover his passion for professional ethics. “I realized that I had found a place: To teach lawyers about the rules of professional conduct and ethics, and to represent lawyers and proceedings, and that's literally been half of my career. My career in this area started through the ethics committee.”

    Dietrich isn’t the only Wisconsin lawyer to find his career path via volunteering with the State Bar. In 2017, Nilesh Patel talked about how his work on the State Bar Diversity and Inclusion Oversight Committee landed him a job.

    You’re Needed: Volunteer with State Bar Leadership Positions

    How do you get started? Visit the Leadership Opportunities and Committees pages on WisBar.org.

    Appointments to standing committees include three-year terms, and appointments to special committees are for one-year terms. All committee appointments begin July 1.

    2024 Leadership Development Summit Young Lawyer Attendees

    This year’s Leadership Development Summit attendees are:

    • Jordan Arrigo, Kasdorf, Lewis &​ Swietlik S.C., Milwaukee

    • Madison Bedder, Cade Law Group LLC, Milwaukee

    • Joshua Ian Bernstein, Gass Turek LLC, Greendale

    • Sara Butler, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Glendale

    • Andrew Raymond Campbell, The Rose Group SC, Milwaukee

    • Kayleigh Cowan, Disability Rights Wisconsin, Fitchburg

    • Julijana Englander, Neider & Boucher SC, Madison

    • Samantha R. Foran, Pines Bach LLP, Madison

    • Natalie L. Gerloff, Hawks Quindel SC, Madison

    • Megan Gomez, Winnebago County District Attorney’s Office, Oshkosh

    • Anne Gonring, Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc., Milwaukee

    • Kate Marie Goodhart, OVB Law & Consulting SC, Milwaukee

     
    • Christian A. Hanson, Russell Law Offices SC, Sauk City

    • Morgan J. Hines, Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee

    • Hamza Jaka, Gardiner Koch Weisberg & Wrona, Lake Geneva

    • Nikole M. Kane, Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office, Waukesha

    • Grace C. Kube, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison

    • Alexander C. Lemke, Meissner Tierney Fisher & Nichols SC, Milwaukee

    • John D. Mathie, State Public Defenders Office, Wausau

    • Aleina L. McGettrick, Moertl, Wilkins & Campbell SC, Milwaukee

    • Abrielle R. Newman, Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc., Milwaukee

    • Tiara Oates, Becker, Hickey & Poster SC, Milwaukee

    • Tara M. Sellen, Law Firm of Conway, Olejniczak & Jerry SC, Green Bay

    • Thomas Luke Swieciak, Milwaukee Police Department, Milwaukee



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