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  • March 26, 2009

    Wisconsin Law Foundation presents the 2008 Belle Case La Follette Outstanding Professional Award to

    Wisconsin Law Foundation presents the 2008 Belle Case La Follette Outstanding Professional Award to  

     

    Tom Sleik, La Crosse

    Thomas SleikThe Wisconsin Law Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting charitable and educational programs that promote public understanding of the law and improvement of the administration of justice. The Belle Case La Follette Outstanding Professional Award recognizes a lawyer who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the profession.

    Tom Sleik is an attorney with Hale, Skemp, Hanson, Skemp & Sleik, in La Crosse. “Throughout the Western Wisconsin legal community, Tom has earned reputation for vigorous representation of his clients, as well as his strong ethics, professionalism, and civility,” says long-time friend and colleague Margaret Ahne Herlitzka.

    “Despite his busy practice schedule, Tom still finds time to mentor younger attorneys and to provide advice and guidance in regard to a wide variety of legal issues,” says Herlitzka. “Tom’s impressive involvement with a variety of community organizations attests to his unfettered dedication to the service of others.”

    Leadership in the law is not new to Sleik. He is a former president of the State Bar. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Conferencing Bar Presidents. He served six years on the Wisconsin Judicial Commission, the last two as chair. He is a past president of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

    Service is a large part of Sleik’s life. He has served as the president and campaign chair of the Greater La Crosse Area United Way, president of the Gateway Area Council Boy Scouts of America, and the State of Wisconsin/Upper Peninsula of Michigan Area president. He chaired the first ever joint capital campaign conducted by a Boy Scout and Girl Scout Council working together. He is past member of the School District of La Crosse Board of Education and continues to be a member to the Board of Trustees of the La Crosse Public Library, which he currently chairs.

    Sleik has been honored for his work in Pro Bono Service by the State Bar. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Best Lawyers in America and Who's Who in American Law. He is a life fellow member of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Wisconsin Bar Foundation. Sleik graduated from Marquette University Law School in 1971. 


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