Advanced Search Tips

The Advanced Search is powered by Google, and thus the results are sorted by relevance rather than alphabetical order. As a result, you may need to narrow your search if it delivers too many results.

• Keyword – This keyword search is a broad search, looking for information in a database of more than 24,000 Wisconsin-licensed lawyers. This is where you could enter a lawyer’s name (or part of a name), organization, state, country, or street name. When searching by state, use the two-letter abbreviation for quicker results.
  
  If the lawyer you’re looking for has a double or a hyphenated last name, like Mark Smith Anderson or Mark Smith-Anderson, the Advanced Search keyword feature works better the Basic Search. The endless power of this keyword search also can be its Achilles heel; if your search delivers too many results, add in the following additional information to narrow your search:
  
  
• Member ID – All you have is a lawyer’s ID number? Enter this information, and you’ll automatically narrow your search to a single lawyer.
  
  
• City and County – Need a lawyer in a particular city or Wisconsin county? Try either or both of these fields. And, if you’ve ever tried to spell “Trempealeau,” you’ll appreciate the helpful drop-down listing.
  
  
• Phone – Got a phone number, part of a number, just the exchange? Use it to toss a wider (or narrower) net than the use of City or County. Be sure to use parentheses and hyphens, as in (608) 986-XXXX.
  
  
• Law School – In a convenient drop-down list, law schools are listed by their official names and are organized alphabetically by state. The list does not include all ABA-accredited law schools; only those schools that have graduated current State Bar of Wisconsin members.
  
  
• Graduation Year – Are you looking for a lawyer that graduated in 1970? If you also know the law school that he or she graduated from, use the Law School field in tandem with Graduation Year.
  
  
• Languages – Looking for a Spanish-speaking lawyer or a lawyer fluent in American Sign Language? Use this drop-down menu to quickly find who speaks what languages.
  
  
• Member Type – Search all Wisconsin-licensed lawyers, or use the drop-down menu to choose from four license status options: Active, Emeritus, Inactive, or Judicial.