Personal Mentions
Daniel W. Hildebrand, U.W. 1964, of DeWitt, Ross
& Stevens, Madison; Gerald M. O'Brien, U.W. 1959,
of Anderson, Shannon, O'Brien, Rice & Bertz, Stevens Point;
Michael R. Wherry, Marquette 1962, of Davis &
Kuelthau S.C., Milwaukee; and John D. Winner, U.W.
1948, of Winner, Wixson & Pernitz, Madison, were honored recently as
Life Fellows of the American Bar Foundation for their generous support
and strong commitment to the ideals and goals of the Foundation. The
Fellows is an honorary organization of attorneys, judges, and law
professors whose professional, public, and private careers have
demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities
and to the highest principles of the legal profession.
Kathleen Brost, U.W. 1992, has been appointed
secretary to the AAL Variable Products Series Fund Inc. Jessica
Philleo, Marquette 1991, has joined Aid Association for
Lutherans as an associate attorney practicing insurance law.
Aiken & Scoptur S.C. announces the debut of the
firm's Web site, located at www.execpc.com/~aiscop. In addition to
information about the firm, the Web site provides many legal, medical,
and other links to reference sources such as Medline, HealthNet, the
State Bar of Wisconsin and legal research sites. It also has links to
newspapers, magazines, airlines and other useful Internet sites.
Shannon A. Allen, U.W. 1995, has joined Friebert,
Finerty and St. John S.C., Milwaukee, as an associate. She formerly was
with Godfrey, Neshek, Worth, Leibsle and Conover S.C., Elkhorn.
Ronald S. Aplin, U.W. 1983, has joined Coyne, Niess,
Schultz, Becker & Bauers S.C. as a shareholder practicing in
worker's compensation and other representation of employers and
insurers. He previously practiced with Peterson, Johnson & Murray
S.C.
Angela M. Bohmann, Boston College 1978 summa cum
laude, has been elected to the Mid-States Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Key District Employee Plans-Exempt Organizations (EP-EO) Council. She
will serve a three-year term. The Dallas-based organization meets
quarterly with IRS officials to review recent developments, discuss
administrative matters, and communicate concerns on behalf of the
employee benefits community. A shareholder at Leonard, Street and
Deinard, Minneapolis, Bohmann practices primarily in compensation and
employee benefits law.
Bruce P. Bower, Notre Dame 1975, served as institute
director for the 1998 Guardianship Institute of the State Bar of Texas.
The program provided the instruction for attorneys to be certified for
appointment as attorney ad litem or guardian ad litem in guardianship
and family law matters in Texas.
Three attorneys recently joined Brennan, Steil, Basting &
MacDougall S.C.: Scott T. Christian, Marquette 1990,
practices in business and corporate transactions, including business
organization, contracts, employment and employee benefits, intellectual
property, and municipal law; Jeffry R. Schwartz,
Marquette 1994, practices in family law; and Dale L.
Thorpe, Marquette 1988, concentrates in business and commercial
law, real estate, municipal law, and estate planning, with an emphasis
on commercial and residential land development.
The Chippewa County Bar Association has elected its officers for the
1998-99 term: president J. Peter Weidenheim;
secretary/treasurer Bryan C. Royce; and social
committee chair Lucie A. Usher.
Patrick G. Colloton, U.W. 1969, has been elected
senior vice president of New York Life Insurance Co. He is in charge of
the company's brokerage department located in Kansas City, Mo. The
department provides products and services to more than 1,200 independent
life insurance producers nationwide. In addition, all of New York Life's
large corporate life insurance business is marketed and serviced through
the Kansas City location.
John Comerford, Marquette 1988, has become corporate
general counsel and secretary for Lunar Corp. located in Madison.
Comerford formerly was associate resident counsel with National Presto
Industries Inc., Eau Claire.
N. (Norrie) J. Daroga, Marquette 1988, has joined
M&I Data Services, a division of Marshall & Ilsley Corp., as its
vice president and general counsel. He is a former partner of Quarles
& Brady in Milwaukee.
Davis & Kuelthau S.C., with offices in
Milwaukee, Madison, Sheboygan, and Green Bay, announces the debut of its
Web site: www.daviskuelthau.com.
Drescher & Drescher S.C. has relocated to The
Appleton Center, Third Floor, 100 W. Lawrence St., Appleton, allowing
the firm to better service clients in an expanded, more centrally
located office. The general practice law firm concentrates in estate
planning, real estate, elder law, and business law.
Nine attorneys practicing in Foley & Lardner's Wisconsin offices
have been elected to partnership in the firm. Joan L.
Eads and Roberta F. Howell, practicing in the
litigation department, are new partners in the Madison office. In the
Milwaukee office, new partners are Elizabeth S.
Blutstein, in the health care finance group; Jeffrey N.
Costakos, in the intellectual property department;
Patrick P. Fee, in the insurance group; Lisa S.
Neubauer,in the litigation department;Hugh J.
O'Halloran, in the real estate group; Russell E.
Ryba, in the business law department; and Edward B.
Witte, in the environmental group.
Daniel J. Gabler, Marquette 1991, has joined
Employment Solutions Inc. as the compliance officer. Employment
Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of Goodwill Industries, is a W-2, Welfare
To Work Agency, serving 20 percent of the state's population receiving
public assistance.
Martin J. Greenberg, Marquette 1971, Milwaukee, has
been promoted as adjunct professor of law at Marquette University Law
School. In addition, the law school has created the Martin J. Greenberg
Award, an award given to a third-year law student who has excelled in
the study of sports law and in service to the National Sports Law
Institute. Greenberg has taught on a part-time basis at Marquette for
more than 25 years and has authored or coauthored several books.
Greenberg also is a visiting professor at Anglia University in
Chelmsford, England. Greenberg was instrumental in creating the National
Sports Law Institute of Marquette University and served as its director
until April 1997. He concentrates in real estate, drafting and
negotiating contracts, and sports law.
The Kenosha law firm of Guttormsen, Hartley &
Guttormsen has relocated its office to the HarborView Office
Center, 600 52nd St., Suite 200. The firm also has relocated its Twin
Lakes Office to 349 E. Main St., Twin Lakes.
Paul R. Hoefle, Michigan 1981, has joined Bode,
Carroll & McCoy S.C., Waukesha, as a shareholder. The law firm's new
name will be Bode, Carroll, McCoy & Hoefle S.C.
R. Thomas Howell Jr., U.W. 1967, has joined
Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson in Chicago in an of counsel
capacity. He formerly served for 12 years as vice president and general
counsel for The Quaker Oats Co., Chicago.
Chris R. Kabella, U.W. 1978, has become of counsel
to Hammargren & Meyer P.A., a Minneapolis-based law firm practicing
in construction-related law, corporate law, and commercial litigation.
Formerly a partner with the St. Paul law firm of Moore, Costello &
Hart, Kabella is president and general counsel of the College of Visual
Arts in St. Paul.
Aaron E. Kornblum, U.W. 1996, has been named a
winner of the1998 Distinguished Service Award by the ABA Standing
Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel (LAMP). Captain
Kornblum, an assistant staff judge advocate stationed at Francis E.
Warren AFB in Cheyenne, Wyo., was one of six winners in the armed
forces. Kornblum's mission-essential legal assistance effort included a
stand-alone Base Tax Center for troops and their families, free Law Day
events on base and in area schools, an innovative preventive law
program, and a comprehensive office Internet Web site. The award
was presented by LAMP Committee chair and State Bar of Wisconsin
President-elect Leonard L. Loeb at Warren AFB.
Dennis W. Kozich, U.W. 1970, has been appointed
chief legal counsel of the Wisconsin Department of Commerce.
Krukowski & Costello S.C., Milwaukee, has hired
two associates: Stephen G. Katz, U.W. 1973, who will
continue to practice all aspects of labor relations, particularly
collective bargaining, arbitration, and employment discrimination; and
David A. McClurg, U.W. 1979, focusing on employment
litigation, including discrimination and wrongful termination cases.
The Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee Inc. has expanded its Board of
Directors to 13 members with the elections of Wayne E. Babler
Jr., Quarles & Brady; Pamela E. Barker,
Godfrey & Kahn; Howard B. Eisenberg, Dean of
Marquette University Law School; David A. Erne,
Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach; and
Kathleen M. Rivera, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Co. Margaret Hanrahan, Marquette 1994, and
Danuta E. Kurczewski, U.W. 1994, have joined Legal Aid
as staff attorneys in the Guardian ad Litem Division Office at the
Milwaukee County Children's Court Center. Kathleen
Walsh, U.W. 1984, staff attorney in the Civil Division at Legal
Aid's downtown office has earned inclusion in Who's Who in American
Law.
David B. Lund, U.W. 1959, Debra A.
Petkovsek, U.W. 1990, and Gregory J. Fumelle,
Thomas M. Colley 1987, have opened Lund, Petkovsek & Fumelle
S.C. located at the former Lund Law Office in DeForest.
Petkovsek and Fumelle formerly were with Eustice, Albert & Laffey
S.C., Sun Prairie.
Jon S. Herreman, Drake 1991 with honors, has become
a shareholder of Mallery & Zimmerman S.C. Herreman, who formerly
practiced at O'Neil, Cannon & Hollman S.C., has been associated with
the firm since 1996, practicing primarily in corporate, commercial real
estate, and loan transactions. Narciso L. Alemàn,
U.W. 1983, and Christopher W. Williamson, U.W. 1997,
have joined the firm as associates. All three attorneys will practice in
the firm's Milwaukee office. Alemàn, formerly a Milwaukee County
assistant district attorney, practices in commercial litigation and
creditors' rights law. Williamson practices in loan transactions, real
estate law, and trusts and estate planning.
Jeffrey S. Sokol, U.W. 1990, and David G.
Hanson, U.W. 1992, have been named adjunct professors of law at
the Marquette University Law School. Sokol and Hanson are teaching a
trademark litigation course for the 1998 spring semester. Sokol, who
recently founded Sokol Law Office, a firm concentrating in patent,
trademark, and copyright law, taught federal trademark registration
during the spring semester of 1997. Hanson, a member of Reinhart,
Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach S.C., taught copyright
litigation during the spring semester of 1997.
Michael McKenna, Minnesota 1985, has been appointed
as the Portage County corporation counsel. He was the Adams County
corporation counsel from 1992-98. He also serves as a JAG officer in the
Wisconsin Army National Guard with the rank of Major.
Brick N. Murphy, U.W. 1995 cum laude, has joined
Liebmann, Conway, Olejniczak & Jerry S.C., Green Bay, as an
associate. Murphy is admitted to practice in all Wisconsin state and
federal courts. He practices in business organization and commercial
transactions. He is a frequent lecturer at private seminars focusing on
business law topics.
Four attorneys have joined Neider & Boucher, Madison.
Rana Kang, Cornell 1993, practices in civil, corporate,
and criminal litigation; Cynthia Richson, IIT
Chicago-Kent 1990, focuses on business and employment law;
Ronald Smith, U.W. 1978, has become of counsel with an
emphasis in real estate and general business law; and Erik
Ibele, U.W. 1979, practices in corporate and business law,
technology licensing, international trade, trademark and copyright
law.
The law firm of Niebler, Pyzyk, Klaver & Wagner
LLP has relocated to N94 W17900 Appleton Ave., Menomonee
Falls.
Barbara H. Patterson, U.W. 1974, recently joined
Advanced Healthcare S.C., Milwaukee, as vice president of human
resources. Advanced Healthcare is a multi-site physician-owned group
medical practice in southeastern Wisconsin, comprised of Milwaukee
Medical Clinic, Falls Medical Group, and West Bend Clinic.
Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach S.C. has added
a new shareholder and five new associates. Jesse S.
Ishikawa, Michigan 1980 cum laude, is a shareholder in the
Madison office and a member of the firm's real estate department. He
represents developers, lenders, and businesses in real estate purchases,
sales, commercial leasing transactions, and land development
transactions. He is a member of the American College of Real Estate
Lawyers and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. He
received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Middlebury
College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. New associates in the
Milwaukee office include: Paul R. Seifert, Chicago
1994, is a member of the real estate department; Michael J.
Frazier, Chicago-Kent with high honors, is a member of the
labor and employment department; John R. Loew, U.W.
1994, is a member of the trusts and estates department; Gregory
P. Meier, U.W. 1993 cum laude, Order of the Coif, is a member
of the business organizations department. Prior to joining the firm he
worked as a human resources manager for a global consulting firm and for
a large manufacturing company; Gail M. Olsen, Marquette
1990 magna cum laude, is a member of the employee benefits department.
Before joining the firm she was an executive at a large employee
benefits consulting and administration firm.
Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach
S.C. also has relocated its Madison office to the Capitol
Square at 22 E. Mifflin St., Suite 600.
William B. Rowland, U.W. 1986, has been named a
partner in the Atlanta, Ga., office of the international law firm of
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. Rowland practices in the business
practice group focusing on international transactions and technology
transactions. He represents both publicly and privately held
companies.
Larry T. Sarver, Toledo 1976, has joined Schumaker,
Romenesko & Associates S.C. (SR&A) as director of its employee
benefits division, Employee Benefit Advisors. He will concentrate in
providing comprehensive retirement plan consulting services to clients.
SR&A, a leading regional firm of certified public accountants and
consultants with offices in Appleton, Green Bay and Oshkosh, is ranked
among the top 100 firms in the United States by Bowman's Accounting
Report.
Kurt M. Schuster, Marquette 1983, has become a
shareholder in the Waukesha law firm of Congdon, Ward & Walden S.C.
Schuster has been with the firm since 1990 practicing primarily in
divorce and criminal law.
Joel H. Spitz, Marquette 1990, has been elected a
partner with Ross & Hardies, practicing in the firm's labor and
employment group. Ross & Hardies is a 200-attorney, Chicago-based
law firm with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and New Jersey.
Ralph J. Tease Jr., Marquette 1981, of Habush,
Habush, Davis & Rottier S.C., Green Bay, recently became board
certified in civil trial law by the National Board of Trial
Advocacy.
Leonila B. Vega, U.W. 1996, has joined the Milwaukee
office of Legal Action of Wisconsin. Vega will be practicing Social
Security Disability law.
Due to her recent marriage, Kelly K. Brown,
Marquette 1994, is practicing under her new name, Kelly B.
Watzka. Watzka recently completed her federal clerkship with
U.S. Magistrate Judge William E. Callahan Jr., and has joined the
Milwaukee law firm of Kachelski, Atta & Straub S.C.
Foley & Lardner is honoring Edwin P. "Ted"
Wiley, Chicago 1952, a recently retired partner well-known for
his legal practice and community service, with the creation of the
firm's new Founder's Award. The award recognizes the achievements of
Wiley, whose vision and determination led to the founding of Foley &
Lardner's intellectual property department 15 years ago. The award will
be given annually to an associate in the department whose performance
best exemplifies the unselfish spirit of client and firm service that
characterized Wiley's long and distinguished career. Wiley practiced
with Foley & Lardner for more than 45 years. He also is known for
his service to the Milwaukee community. The first recipient of the
Founder's Award is Patrick A. Doody, who practices in Foley &
Lardner's Washington, D.C., office.
In Memoriam
Robert C. Beer, U.W. 1952, Detroit, Mich., March 4,
1919 - Feb. 21, 1998.
Donald L. Gabel, American University-Washington
1961, Wytheville, Va., July 24, 1934 - March 2, 1998.
William J. Gleiss, U.W. 1946, Sparta, March 26, 1920
- Feb. 17, 1998.
Robert J. LaBelle, Marquette 1949, Oconomowoc, Aug.
23, 1924 - March 27, 1998.
Alan J. Rogers, U.W. 1952, Kula, Hi., July 13, 1927
- Feb. 28, 1998.
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