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Affiliates withElection Law LLC in the pleadings and is currently listed as "On Leave of Absence" from the law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP.

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The 10 Wisconsin Republicans who posed as electors for President Donald Trump in 2020 even though he had lost the election settled a lawsuit against them Wednesday, acknowledging their actions were part of an effort to overturn the election results.

The lawsuit was filed last year by two of the state’s rightful electors, alleging the 10 false electors had engaged in a plot to defraud Wisconsin voters. The lawsuit had sought up to $200,000 from each elector, but no money is being exchanged as part of the settlement.

Wisconsin was one of several swing states in which groups of Republicans cast false electoral votes for Trump and sent them to Congress. The electors in two other states are facing criminal charges for their actions. The settlement marks the first time false electors in any state have revoked their filings and said they will not repeat their actions.

The 10 Republicans have also agreed not to serve as electors in any presidential election in which Trump is on the ballot. Trump is currently the leading candidate in the Republican primary race.

On the day that the duly elected presidential electors met in December 2020, the group of Republicans met in secret to cast Electoral College votes for Trump, claiming they were casting them in case Trump’s efforts to change the election results in court were successful. The false votes were cast hours after the state Supreme Court had voted 4-3 against the Trump campaign’s efforts to toss out hundreds of thousands of votes in Dane and Milwaukee counties in an attempt to change the results — effectively ending the campaign’s legal battles in Wisconsin.

The false electoral votes were sent to the National Archives, Congress, then-Secretary of State Douglas La Follette and a federal judge. The votes played a major role in sparking the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

:{“On December 14, 2020, in compliance with requests received from the Trump campaign and the Republican Party of Wisconsin, we met at the Wisconsin State Capitol and executed a document titled ‘Certificate of the Votes of the 2020 Electors from Wisconsin,’” the 10 Republican electors said in a statement as part of the settlement.

“That document stated, in part, that we were ‘the duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America from the State of Wisconsin.’ The Elector Defendants took the foregoing action because they were told that it was necessary to preserve their electoral votes in the event a court challenge may later change the outcome of the election in Wisconsin. That document was then used as part of an attempt to improperly overturn the 2020 presidential election results.”}:

“We hereby reaffirm that Joseph R. Biden, Jr. won the 2020 presidential election and that we were not the duly elected presidential electors for the State of Wisconsin for the 2020 presidential election,” the statement continues. “We oppose any attempt to undermine the public’s faith in the ultimate results of the 2020 presidential election.”

While the 10 Republican electors agreed to settle the claims against them, the case continues against two attorneys who played a crucial role in the scheme. Jim Troupis, a former Dane County judge who served as legal counsel for the Trump campaign, and Kenneth Cheseboro, who urged the Wisconsin Republicans to undertake the plan in a November 2020 memo and is facing criminal charges in Georgia for the false electoral votes cast in that state, are set to face a civil trial next year.

The group of false electors included Andrew Hitt, who was then the chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and Robert Spindell, who continues to serve as a member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission — the agency responsible for administering elections in the state.

Documents released as part of the settlement include text messages in which one of the Republicans refers to the false elector plan as a “possible steal.” Another text showed an elector saying that not going along with the plan would “piss off the Trump base.”

The emails and text messages released show the electors had varying degrees of belief in the likelihood of the plan succeeding, some of which had previously been released by the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack.

The released texts show that on Jan. 5, 2021, Wisconsin GOP staffer Alesha Guenther flew to Washington D.C. to deliver the false votes.

“5 minutes until I make the drop,” she wrote to Hitt. “I feel like a drug dealer.”

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Andrew Hitt*: The chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin from 2019 until 2021, Hitt is a partner at consulting and lobbying firm Michael Best Strategies.

Kelly Ruh*: Ruh was an alderperson for De Pere but lost her bid for reelection in April. She has also been chairwoman of the 8th Congressional District Republican Party and a controller for Bay Industries in Green Bay.

Carol Brunner: Brunner is the vice chairwoman of Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District Republican Party.

Edward Scott Grabins: Chairman of the Dane County Republican Party, Grabins is a technology professional, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Bill Feehan: A business manager based in La Crosse, Feehan was a 2012 candidate for District 32 of the Wisconsin state Senate.

Robert F. Spindell Jr.: Spindell has been a commissioner on the Wisconsin Election Commission since 2019 and recently ran to chair the commission and lost. After Biden won the election, Spindell appeared at a “stop the steal” rally at the state Capitol.

Kathy Kiernan: Kiernan is the 5th Congressional District chairman for the Republican Party of Wisconsin.

Darryl Carlson: Currently executive director of conservative organization No Better Friend Corp., Carlson ran an unsuccessful campaign in 2014 for the Wisconsin State Assembly. He is a veteran and has also represented the 3rd aldermanic district in Sheboygan.

Pam Travis: Travis has served as treasurer of the Wisconsin Federation of Republican Women and is currently the 7th Congressional District vice chairman for the Republican Party of Wisconsin.

Mary Buestrin: A former national committeewoman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, Buestrin says she has done volunteer work supporting Republican candidates for more than 50 years.

Slated to appear but replaced:

Tom Schreibel: Schreibel is a partner at consulting and lobbying firm Michael Best Strategies and a national committeeman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin.

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An ethics attorney to Donald Trump allegedly instructed former White House aide, Cassidy Hutchinson to lie about her own recollection of events during her notable testimony in June, CNN reports.

Stefan Passantino, who Hutchinson fired as her attorney prior to her testimony, was paid by Trump’s political action committee, Save America for his legal services. The former Deputy White House Counsel claims that many people drop their lawyers “because their interests or strategies change.”

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a member of the committee said to CNN, “She was advised to say that she didn’t recall something when she did. So that’s pretty serious stuff.”

Passantino said in a statement to CNN that any claims of him advising Hutchinson to deceive the committee are untrue. “I represented Ms. Hutchinson honorably, ethically, and fully consistent with her sole interests as she communicated them to me,” he said. “I believed Ms. Hutchinson was being truthful and cooperative with the Committee throughout the several interview sessions in which I represented her.”

The committee also alleges that the attorney provided Hutchinson’s testimony to fellow lawyers, as well as the press, despite her disapproval.

Passantino claimed, “External communications made on Ms. Hutchinson’s behalf while I was her counsel were made with her express authorization.”

Michael Best & Friefrich LLP, the law firm he’s served as partner, deleted the long-time attorney’s headshot and bio from its website this week. Although, he says “given the distraction of this matter” he’s only on “a leave of absence.” The firm maintains that they were not involved in any way and Hutchinson was never a client, according to CNN.

The Jan. 6 committee included their assessment of this matter in the executive summary of their report. “The lawyer had advised the witness that the witness could, in certain circumstances, tell the Committee that she did not recall facts when she actually did recall them,” the report says.

“When the witness raised concerns with her lawyer about that approach,” according to the summary, the lawyer said, “They don’t know what you know, [witness]. They don’t know that you can recall some of these things. So you saying ‘I don’t recall’ is an entirely acceptable response to this.”

The report continues, “The lawyer instructed the client about a particular issue that would cast a bad light on President Trump: ‘No, no, no, no, no. We don’t want to go there. We don’t want to talk about that.’”

The committee stated that it will share the transcript of the witness testimony in question with the public.

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Exclusive: Trump’s former White House ethics lawyer told Cassidy Hutchinson to give misleading testimony to January 6 committee, sources say

Katelyn Polantz Pamela Brown Jamie Gangel Jeremy Herb

Wed December 21, 2022

UNITED STATES - JUNE 28: Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol hearing to present previously unseen material and hear witness testimony in Cannon Building, on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Rep. Lofgren says executive summary will have 'very bad' previously unreleased evidence from Jan. 6 hearings

Exclusive: Trump lawyer allegedly urged WH aide to mislead Jan. 6 cmte

The January 6 committee made a startling allegation on Monday, claiming it had evidence that a Trump-backed attorney urged a key witness to mislead the committee about details they recalled.

Though the committee declined to identify the people, CNN has learned that Stefan Passantino, the top ethics attorney in the Trump White House, is the lawyer who allegedly advised his then-client, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, to tell the committee that she did not recall details that she did, sources familiar with the committee’s work tell CNN.

Trump’s Save America political action committee funded Passantino and his law firm Elections LLC, including paying for his representation of Hutchinson, other sources tell CNN. The committee report notes the lawyer did not tell his client who was paying for the legal services.

Over the summer, Hutchinson emerged as a blockbuster witness for the committee, providing key insight into Trump’s state of mind and his actions leading up to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Before her public testimony, Hutchinson dropped Passantino and got a new lawyer.

When asked about pressure on Hutchinson after Monday’s hearing, committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren, told CNN: “She was advised to say that she didn’t recall something when she did. So that’s pretty serious stuff.”

The episode is just one of several instances in which the committee has accused members of Trump’s orbit of trying to obstruct the panel’s investigation.

Two sources familiar with the situation tell CNN that Hutchinson has discussed the episode with the Justice Department. CNN has previously reported that Hutchinson was cooperating with the Justice Department’s January 6 investigation, after she became a crucial public witness in the House probe.

CNN reached out to the Justice Department for comment.

Passantino has not been accused of a crime. He said House investigators never reached out to him for an interview.

In a statement to CNN, Passantino said he didn’t advise Hutchinson to mislead the committee. “I represented Ms. Hutchinson honorably, ethically, and fully consistent with her sole interests as she communicated them to me. I believed Ms. Hutchinson was being truthful and cooperative with the Committee throughout the several interview sessions in which I represented her.”

Passantino pointed out it’s not uncommon for people to change lawyers “because their interests or strategies change,” according to his statement. He also said political committees sometimes cover client fees “at the client’s request.”

In response to an accusation from the committee that he also shared her testimony with other lawyers and the press even when she told him not to, he said, “External communications made on Ms. Hutchinson’s behalf while I was her counsel were made with her express authorization.”

By Tuesday, Passantino’s professional biography had been removed from the website of a midwestern-based law firm where he was a partner – and he acknowledged in his statement he was on a leave of absence from the firm “given the distraction of this matter.”That firm, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, said on Tuesday it was not involved in the situation and Hutchinson wasn’t a client.

Passantino said he remains a partner at Elections LLC.

Concerns over witness tampering

The House January 6 committee, during hearings over the summer, said it was concerned about potential witness tampering. CNN has reported that witness was Hutchinson.

The committee summary stated that the panel “is aware of multiple efforts by President Trump to contact Select Committee witnesses. The Department of Justice is aware of at least one of those circumstances.”

Then on Monday, in the executive summary of the final report, the committee revisited the issue in its handoff of the investigation to the Justice Department.

According to the report, “the lawyer had advised the witness that the witness could, in certain circumstances, tell the Committee that she did not recall facts when she actually did recall them.”

“The lawyer instructed the client about a particular issue that would cast a bad light on President Trump: ‘No, no, no, no, no. We don’t want to go there. We don’t want to talk about that,’” the report said.

At the committee’s final public hearing, Lofgren said: “The witness believed this was an effort to affect her testimony, and we are concerned that these efforts may have been a strategy to prevent the Committee from finding the truth.”

Lawyers must follow extensive ethics guidelines as part of their profession, including avoiding conflicts of interest that could compromise their representation of a client. According to legal ethics experts, a lawyer swaying their client’s testimony in a way that wouldn’t be entirely truthful could be looked at as possible obstruction of an investigation.

Elections LLC, a political law practice Passantino and other Trump lawyers founded after he left the Trump White House, has received regular payments from Save America PAC and other Trump-backed groups, according to FEC filings. The Save America PAC distributions to the firm for legal consulting total more than $150,000 in 2021, and about $275,000 in 2022. The firm also has worked for major Republican congressional campaigns.

This year, Trump’s Save America PAC has made payments to several law firms representing witnesses in the January 6 and Mar-a-Lago investigation. An issue only arises if the lawyer doesn’t follow the client’s wishes, legal experts and professional rules say.

Other obstruction concerns

The committee, in its summary Monday, gave several other examples of “evidence suggesting specific efforts to obstruct” their work. They noted efforts by Trump to contact some witnesses, as well as multiple Secret Service agents hiring private lawyers rather than agency-provided lawyers who would represent them for free. A Secret Service driver’s lawyer admitted to writing notes to the driver as they testified, about what was being said, according to the committee.

The committee also said it believed some witnesses, such as Trump’s former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the former president’s daughter Ivanka Trump, weren’t as “frank or direct” as others.

The report also said the committee believed a White House staffer Anthony Ornato “gave testimony consistent with the false account” in a book written by Mark Meadows, downplaying Trump’s wish to go to the Capitol on January 6.

The committee says it plans to release transcripts that will shed further light on the witness testimony they found to be questionable.

This story has been updated with other potential examples of obstruction identified by the committee.

CNN’s Zachary Cohen and Gabby Orr contributed to this story

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16. Stefan Passantino, Justin Clark, or any person communicating from an email

address ending in @michaelbest.com

17. Sidney Powell,and anyone communicating on behalf of Sidney Powell, P.C.,

including anyone communicating from an email address ending in

@federalappeals.com

18. Mike Lindell or anyone communicating from an email address ending in

@mypillow.com

19. Kurt Olsen (kurtols@protonmail.com)

William Olson (williamolson@lawandfreedom.com, wjo@mindspring.com)

21. Patrick Byrne (including, but not limited to patrick@deepcapture.com), or

anyone communicating on behalf of the America Project, including anyone

communicating from an email address ending in @americaproject.com

22. Colonel Phil Waldron (phil@onewarrior.com, JWRLLC@gmail.com, or

p@bonfiresearch.org), Russell Ramsland (ryuks9sq@alliedspecialops.us or

yrku9sqs@protonmail.com), James Keet Lewis III (keet@jkeetlewis.com), or

anyone communicating on behalf of Allied Security Operations Group

(@alliedspecialops.us)

23. JohnEastman (including but not limited to, from the email address

jeastman@claremont.org or jeastman@chapman.edu), or anyone

communicating on behalf of Constitutional Counsel Group (@ccg1776.com)

Anyone communicating on behalf of theAmerica First Policy Institute,

including Brooke Rollins, Chad Wolf,or anyone communicating from an

email address ending in @americafirstpolicy.com

Anyone communicating on behalf of America First Legal, including Stephen

Miller, Gene Hamilton, Russ Vought, or anyone communicating from an

email address ending in @aflegal.org

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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/09/hutchinson-former-meadows-aide-replaces-lawyer-jan-6-hearings-00038439

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INSURRECTION FALLOUT

Hutchinson, former Meadows aide, replaces lawyer on cusp of Jan. 6 hearings

Her previous attorney has deep Trump World connections. Her new lawyer is a longtime close ally of former attorney general Jeff Sessions.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and White House legislative aide Cassidy Hutchinson dance to the song YMCA.

Former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson, right, dances with then-White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany after a rally on Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, in Swanton, Ohio. Jan. 6 select committee members have praised Hutchinson for providing extensive testimony behind closed doors. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo

By BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN

06/09/2022

Cassidy Hutchinson — a top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows during the Trump era — has parted ways with her lawyer and brought on new representation. Her new lawyer, Jody Hunt of Alston Bird, confirmed the move to POLITICO.

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The change in counsel signals an increased willingness from Hutchinson to cooperate fully with the Jan. 6 select committee’s probe, according to a person familiar with her thinking. The panel has signaled that it views her as a key witness.

Hutchinson’s former attorney, Stefan Passantino, has deep Trump World connections. Her new lawyer, Jody Hunt, is a longtime close ally of Jeff Sessions and served as his chief of staff when the former attorney general enraged Trump by recusing from the Russia probe.

Select committee members have praised Hutchinson for providing extensive testimony behind closed doors, over the course of three depositions and under two different subpoenas. The Jan. 6 panel is expected to call her in for live testimony during a public hearing.

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It’s unusual, though not unheard of, for people involved in high-profile congressional probes to change counsel. Hutchinson is a uniquely important witness because she has shared information about Meadows, who has refused to sit for an interview with the select panel.

Hutchinson has told investigators that Meadows was warned of potential violence before Jan. 6 and that he burned papers in his office weeks after the 2020 election. She’s also relayed that Meadows told aides of Trump, during the riot, expressing a positive view of hanging then-Vice President Mike Pence.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a select committee member, told The Washington Post earlier this month that Hutchinson “certainly rendered truthful testimony” to the panel.

Passantino, Hutchinson’s former attorney, was the Trump White House’s chief ethics lawyer. And Passantino’s firm, Michael Best, has Trump World connections; its president is former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, andJustin Clark— also a top Trump World lawyer — is currently on leave from the firm, according to its website.

Attorney Alex Cannon, who worked on the Trump campaign and with Trump’s legal team after his presidency, is also a lawyer at the firm.

Passantino declined to comment.

Biden calls Jan. 6 riot ‘flagrant violation’ of the Constitution at Summit of the Americas

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Hutchinson has brought on Hunt, of Alston Bird, just before the Jan. 6 committee’s first major hearing on Thursday night. He was Sessions’ chief of staff during the first year of the Trump administration, then became head of the Justice Department’s civil division.

Hunt has generally kept a low public profile, but on Twitter he has publicly defended Sessions’ decision to recuse from the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election — a recusal that infuriated Trump.

William Jordan, a partner at the same firm as Hunt, is also representing Hutchinson.

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Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a select committee member, earlier this month that Hutchinson “certainly rendered truthful testimony” to the panel.

Passantino, Hutchinson’s former attorney, was the Trump White House’s chief ethics lawyer. And Passantino’s firm, Michael Best, has Trump World connections; its president is former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, and Justin Clark — also a top Trump World lawyer — is currently on leave from the firm, according to its website.

Attorney Alex Cannon, who worked on the Trump campaign and with Trump’s legal team after his presidency, is also a lawyer at the firm.

Passantino declined to comment.

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The Quiet Hand of Conservative Groups in the Anti-Lockdown Protests

Groups in a loose coalition have tapped their networks to drive up turnout at recent rallies in state capitals and financed lawsuits, polling and research to combat the stay-at-home orders.

Kenneth P. Vogel Jim Rutenberg Lisa Lerer

By Kenneth P. Vogel, Jim Rutenberg and Lisa Lerer

April 21, 2020

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WASHINGTON — An informal coalition of influential conservative leaders and groups, some with close connections to the White House, has been quietly working to nurture protests and apply political and legal pressure to overturn state and local orders intended to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

The groups have tapped their networks to drive up turnout at recent rallies in state capitals, dispatched their lawyers to file lawsuits, and paid for polling and research to undercut the arguments behind restrictions that have closed businesses and limited the movement of most Americans.

Among those fighting the orders are FreedomWorks and Tea Party Patriots,which played pivotal roles in the beginning of Tea Party protests starting more than a decade ago. Also involved are a law firm led partly by former Trump White House officials, a network of state-based conservative policy groups, and an ad hoc coalition of conservative leaders known as Save Our Country [laffer STEPHEN MOORE] that has advised the White House on strategies for a tiered reopening of the economy.

The effort picked up some influential support on Tuesday, when Attorney General William P. Barr expressed concerns about state-level restrictions potentially infringing on constitutional rights, and suggested that, if that occurred, the Justice Department might weigh in, including by supporting legal challenges by others. Separately, in Wisconsin, Republicans in the state legislature sued to block the Democratic governor’s order extending stay-at-home rules through May 26.

Those helping orchestrate the fight against restrictions predict the effort could energize the right in the same way the Tea Party movement did in 2009 and 2010, and potentially be helpful to President Trump as he campaigns for re-election. But the cause has yet to demonstrate that kind of traction.

Polls show a majority of Americans are more concerned about reopening the country too quickly than they are about the damage to the economy. And coronavirus protests have drawn smaller crowds ranging from a few dozen to several thousand at a rally in Michigan last week.

Conditions are hardly ideal for a protest movement related to the virus. In addition to the health risks, demonstrators potentially face legal exposure for violating the very measures they are protesting. Plus, some key Republican leaders have embraced the types of restrictions being targeted, while powerful grass-roots mobilizing groups, including those spearheaded by the billionaire activist Charles Koch, have so far not embraced the protests.

Still, the fight has emerged as a galvanizing cause for a vocal element of Mr. Trump’s base and others on the political right. Organizers see it as unifying social conservatives, who view the orders as targeting religious groups; fiscal conservatives who chafe at the economic devastation wrought by the restrictions on businesses; and civil libertarians who contend that the restrictions infringe on constitutional rights.

“Groups are united in purpose on this,” said Noah Wall, advocacy director for FreedomWorks, which in 2009 organized a Tea Party protest that drew tens of thousands of people or more to Washington. He described the current efforts as appealing to a “much broader” group. “This is about people who want to get back to work and leave their homes,” he said.

More than 10 protests are planned for this week, Mr. Wall said, adding that elected officials “are going to see a lot of angry activists, and I think that could change minds.”

The protests mostly appear to have been organized by local residents, and are framed primarily as pushback against what they view as government overreach. But some rallies have prominently featured iconography boosting Mr. Trump and Republicans and denouncing Democrats, as well the occasional Confederate flag and signs promoting conspiracy theories.

As was the case with the Tea Party movement, established national groups that generally align with the Republican Party have sought to fuel the protests, harnessing their energy in a manner that can increase their profiles and build their membership base and donor rolls.

Nonprofit groups including FreedomWorks and Tea Party Patriots have used their social media accounts and text and email lists to spread the word about protests across the country.

Most of FreedomWorks’s 40 employees are working remotely on the effort, helping to connect local protesters and set up websites for them. The group is considering paid digital advertising to further increase turnout, and has been conducting weekly tracking polls in swing suburban districts that it says show support for reopening parts of country. It is sharing the data with advisers on the president’s economic task force and other conservative allies on Capitol Hill.

While social media has been a key platform for organizing the protests, those efforts have drawn scrutiny. Facebook removed some posts devoted to the protests on Monday for encouraging violations of social distancing laws. And similarities in online organizing efforts behind different protests have sparked accusations that they are not, in fact, organic grass-roots campaigns, but “astroturfing” efforts that are manipulated by Washington conservatives to appear locally driven.

Organizers of recent protests in Oklahoma acknowledged that FreedomWorks helped arrange the events and said they hoped the “rolling protests,” which were intended to keep people in their vehicles, helped Mr. Trump politically. But they stressed that the events reflected real concerns from real people about the economic damage inflicted by mitigation measures.

Carol Hefner, an Oklahoma co-chair of Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign who helped organize a protest last week in Oklahoma City, cited the state’s flat terrain as a factor in any decision to ease restrictions. “We have a lot of wind and the wind has pretty much helped us here,” she said. “We are in a much better position than many of the other states to go ahead and open back up.”

Ronda Vuillemont-Smith, an Oklahoma HVAC contractor who helped with the capital rally and another one on Monday in Tulsa, said she encouraged protesters to remain in their vehicles. But Ms. Vuillemont-Smith, who serves on FreedomWorks’s activist advisory council, added, “I see absolutely no risks whatsoever” for open-air protests. “We are adults. We assume personal responsibility for the decisions that we make,” she said.

The Oklahoma organizers and Mr. Wall, as well as the White House and the Trump campaign, said there was no coordination between the protests and Mr. Trump’s team.

But the protests coincide with messages from Mr. Trump, and have been helped and organized by his supporters, some of whom have begun new ventures to advance the cause.

One of them is Reopen America Political Action Committee, which aims to bring small business owners to Washington to lobby lawmakers to reopen, starting with a 24-hour rally at the White House on May 1 — the target Mr. Trump set for reopening.

The group, which was created this month, has yet to report any financial activity. But its founder, Suzzanne Monk, who is active on Twitter with the handle @Trumpertarian, called the idea for the rally “pushback against these governors who want to stay shut down far beyond their economic capacity to do so.”

Support for the protests features more direct ties to the White House than simply support for Mr. Trump. The administration recently formed an advisory group for reopening the economy that included Stephen Moore, the conservative economics commentator. Mr. Moore had been coordinating with FreedomWorks, the Tea Party Patriots and the American Legislative Exchange Council in a coalition called “Save Our Country,” which was formed to push for a quicker easing of restrictions.

At the same time, Mr. Moore was communicating with a group of local activists in Wisconsin involved in organizing a protest at the State Capitol set for Friday. On a conservative YouTube program that went online the day Mr. Trump named him to the task force, Mr. Moore said he had “one big donor in Wisconsin”who had pledged financial support for the protesters, telling him, “‘Steve, I promise, I will pay the bail and legal fees of anyone who gets arrested.’”

In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Moore declined to identify the donor, but said, “I do think you’re going to see these start to erupt.”

He said he would probably turn down an invitation to speak at the protest in Wisconsin, because “it’s important that no one be under the impression that it’s sponsored or directed by national groups in Washington.”

A legal offensive against the restrictions is also being waged by groups and individuals supportive of Mr. Trump.

Mr. Barr’s comments on Tuesday came a few days after a letter sent by groups including FreedomWorks, Tea Party Patriots and the anti-abortion-rights group Susan B. Anthony List [CNP] urging the Justice Department to consider intervening to block restrictions that the officials said were unconstitutional infringements on civil liberties.

Lawyers aligned with socially conservative causes have filed their own lawsuits against governors.

Many are focused on allowing smaller churches to keep holding services, but the objections cover a range of other activities. In Michigan, a lawsuit is challenging provisions of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order banning travel to vacation homes and gatherings of non-household members.

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A law firm that advises the Trump Organization, Michael Best & Friedrich, is representing members of a new protest group in North Carolinacalled ReOpenNC. Michael Best’s ranks include the former Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus, the former deputy White House counsel Stefan C. Passantino and the current senior counsel at the Trump campaign, Justin Clark.

ReOpenNC had told its members that a “generous donor” had arranged to pay for buses to bring protesters to Raleigh from around the state. But, in a sign of how loath the groups are to be viewed as “astroturf” creations, the group said it had scrapped the plan when a news station, WRAL, asked about it. (Afterward, a former defense contractor and perennial North Carolina political candidate, Tim D’Annunzio, stepped forward on Facebook to say he was the donor and was still hoping to run the buses.)

On Friday, Anthony J. Biller, a Raleigh-based lawyer with Michael Best, wrote to Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, on behalf of a ReOpenNC co-founder, Kristen Elizabeth, and a member who was arrested at a protest last week, seeking dismissal of the charges. In an interview, Mr. Biller said he hoped the state would agree to allow ReOpenNC to demonstrate safely without fear of arrest, adding, “What is sufficient safety to buy toilet paper at Costco should be sufficient safety to practice one’s fundamental rights, particularly about these issues.”

He said that he was working pro bono but that there was “no coordination with the Trump administration, as some bozos have implied.”

One force in conservative politics that has kept its distance from the stay-at-home protests is the network of groups backed by the billionaire Mr. Koch. The largest Koch-backed group, Americans for Prosperity, which played a leading role in facilitating the Tea Party movement, has remained on the sidelines of the coronavirus protests.[FREEDOMWORKS ADAM BRANDON]

GoDaddy records show that a public relations firm tied to the Koch network, In Pursuit Of LLC, registered the domain name “reopenmississippi.com.” An official said the group had planned to use the site to highlight a nuanced approach being developed by the network to reopen the economy while balancing health concerns.

“The question is — what is the best way to get people back to work?” said Emily Seidel, the chief executive of Americans for Prosperity. “We don’t see protests as the best way to do that,” she said, adding that “the choice between full shutdown and immediately opening everything is a false choice.”

Reid J. Epstein contributed reporting.

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/reince-priebus-law-firm-expands-north-carolina-2022-01-05/

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Reince Priebus' law firm expands in North Carolina

By David Thomas

Michael Best & Friedrich adds seven more offices in North Carolina after absorbing Forrest Firm

Wisconsin-based firm has ties to former President Donald Trump

(Reuters) - Milwaukee-based law firm Michael Best & Friedrich on Wednesday said it has acquired a 23-lawyer North Carolina firm, shoring up its presence in the Tar Heel state.

By acquiring Forrest Firm, a full-service business law firm, Michael Best adds seven new North Carolina locations to its established office in Raleigh. The firm said it now has more than 60 lawyers and other employees in the state.

Forrest Firm's practices include corporate transactions, intellectual property, litigation, labor and employment and venture capital, Michael Best said in a press release.

Michael Best is known for its ties to former President Donald Trump. Firm president Reince Priebus served as Trump's White House chief of staff for six months, while Stefan Passantino, a former White House deputy counsel, leads the firm's political law practice.

The firm also has a lobbying arm, Michael Best Strategies. Priebus, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, chairs its board of advisors.

Justin Clark, a former Trump deputy campaign manager who has represented Trump in his bid to block records from being scrutinized by Congress, is a Michael Best partner listed as being on leave from the firm.

Michael Best has launched a string of new offices since 2013, including in Austin, Boulder, Salt Lake City, Washington, D.C., and Raleigh, which opened in 2017. The firm said it added seven attorneys to its Raleigh office last year.

Like other law firms, Michael Best saw its fortunes rise last year, with its gross revenue reaching $156.9 million, according to ALM Media, which tracks law firm finances.

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Milwaukee-based Michael Best & Friedrich has gained national prominence and prospered financially as it has brought on a number of former Trump administration officials and re-grown its attorney head count over the last four years.

The firm welcomed back longtime former Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus in October 2017, after Priebus’ six-month stint as White House chief of staff. Priebus became president of the law firm and head of its government relations and public affairs unit, Michael Best Strategies.

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Reuters) - Milwaukee-based Michael Best & Friedrich has gained national prominence and prospered financially as it has brought on a number of former Trump administration officials and re-grown its attorney head count over the last four years.

The firm welcomed back longtime former Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus in October 2017, after Priebus' six-month stint as White House chief of staff. Priebus became president of the law firm and head of its government relations and public affairs unit, Michael Best Strategies.

Since then, the firm has added Justin Clark, who once led the White House's public liaison and intergovernmental affairs offices, and Stefan Passantino, former White House deputy counsel, as partners, with Passantino leading the firm's political law practice.

Clark is currently on leave, serving as Trump's deputy campaign manager – on Wednesday he was vowing to intervene in vote count litigation in Pennsylvania.

Clark and Passantino also have a separate venture, Elections LLC, that they formed in February 2019. That firm has been paid$560,000 by the Trump campaign for legal consulting, according to Federal Elections Commission records.

Elections LLC has also earned thousands more from individual campaign committees, including Marjorie Taylor Greene's congressional campaign in Georgia and independent political action committees tied to Republicans, FEC records show.

The Trump campaign tapped Passantino for a lawsuit it filed in Chatham County Superior Court in Georgia. In the lawsuit, the campaign and the Georgia Republican Party alleged that the Chatham County Board of Elections commingled a batch of absentee ballots with ballots that had arrived after the deadline for receiving such ballots.

Michael Best itself earned more than $400,000 from the Republican National Committee and some of its state-level affiliates from January 2019 to September 2020, according to FEC records. The firm was involved in the planning of the 2020 RNC Convention.

Passantino declined to comment, and neither Michael Best managing partner David Krutz nor a spokeswoman responded to requests for comment.

The firm's lobbying profile has also grown during the Trump administration. Prior to 2017, the firm's federal lobbying revenues never reached a quarter of a million dollars, according to the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org database.

Since then it has been on the rise. This year so far, the firm was paid more than $3.2 million in lobbying fees, its most ever, according to disclosures compiled by OpenSecrets. The firm's top client this year is Plains All American Pipeline, an oil and gas company based in Houston.

Beyond its political work, Michael Best is known for a mix of strong practices in areas such as intellectual property, manufacturing and technology transactions, according to Chicago-based law firm consultant Kent Zimmermann.

The firm was established in 1848, the same year Wisconsin was admitted to the union. In 1990, it opened an office in Chicago, which Zimmermann described as the "turning point" for the firm.

"It's not easy to grow out of some markets, including Milwaukee. But some firms have done it, and they're one of them," Zimmermann, a consultant at the Zeughauser Group, said. "They're not done growing yet."

The firm was bent on expansion before Trump's election in 2016 and has built on that momentum, Zimmermann said. Since 2013, it has opened offices in cities including Washington, D.C., Austin, Boulder and Salt Lake City.

Over the past decade, Michael Best has seen uneven periods of growth in its top-line revenue, according to ALM Media, which tracks law firm finances and demographics. In 2016 and 2017, it grew its gross receipts by 7.4% and 8.86%, respectively, before watching that growth shrink to 1.5% in 2018.

Last year, Michael Best generated revenue of $144.3 million, a firm record, according to ALM.

The firm hit an all-time head count high of 357 attorneys in 2002 before shrinking steadily to 189 attorneys in 2013, per ALM's data. Since 2016 it has seen its longest stretch of head count growth in two decades, adding lawyers every year to reach 242 attorneys in 2019.

"I think they're going to be a firm on the rise after Trump's time in office," Zimmermann said.

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in his role as partner, Tom utilizes his expertise in legislative and executive processes to advance client interests through development and implementation of political, legislative, and public affairs strategies.

Prior to joining Strategies, Tom served as vice president of government and industry affairs at Sheehan Family Companies, a national beverage distribution company. There, he developed and executed strategies surrounding the company’s business practices, managed tracking of relevant policy activity for 15 state legislatures and Washington, D.C., and managed relationships and communication with industry leaders, legislators, and elected officials.

He was previously chief of staff and committee professional staff member for Congressman F.James Sensenbrenner Jr., overseeing the Washington, D.C. and district offices, supervising legislative, political, communications, and campaign strategies, and advising the congressman on all aspects of office policy. In this role, Tom designed the approved 2000 Wisconsin congressional redistricting plan. While working with Congressman Sensenbrenner, he also served as district director and scheduler.

Professional Activities

Wisconsin’s National Committeeman, Republican National Committee
Member, Board of Directors, National Beer Wholesalers Association
Platform Committee Member and Delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Subcommittee Vice Chair
Vice Chair, Wisconsin Republican Party, 2014-present
Volunteer, Lake Keesus Advancement Association, 1999- present
Delegate, Republican Party of Waukesha County, 1985-present
Volunteer, Sensenbrenner for Congress Committee, 1984-present
Volunteer on numerous statewide and legislative campaign

sEPTEMBER 14, 2021PRESS RELEASE

Michael Best Strategies Acquires Capitol Consultants

Michael Best Strategies (Strategies) announced today the acquisition of Capitol Consultants, a premier Wisconsin corporate strategy, economic development, and government relations firm with a stellar reputation for success and unmatched client service. Managing Partner Bill McCoshen will join Strategies as a partner as part of the move, along with Senior Vice President Tony Langenohl. The acquisition solidifies Strategies as the dominant Wisconsin firm for clients with state and federal government relations and communications needs.

“Bill McCoshen has a long track record of delivering client wins on some of the most important public policy issues facing the business community,” said Robert Marchant, president of Michael Best Strategies. “We’re excited to have the Capitol Consultants team join the Michael Best family and look forward to adding their clients to a growing list of businesses that rely on Michael Best Strategies for their government relations, business consulting and strategic communications needs.”

Formed in 1992 by Carol McCoshen, Capitol Consultants has continually helped clients successfully navigate state government, regardless of which party controlled the Executive or Legislative branches. The firm grew to become one of Wisconsin’s most successful government and corporate relations firms, serving a broad range of clients across major sectors of the Wisconsin economy and developing a national reputation for effectiveness and unmatched client service.

Before forming Capitol Consultants, Bill McCoshen was appointed Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Commerce by Governor Tommy G. Thompson; he remains the youngest appointed cabinet secretary in state history at age 29. He also served as Thompson’s Chief of Staff at age 27. McCoshen was manager of Thompson’s 1994 campaign, a landslide victory that captured 67% of the vote along with winning 71 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties. In addition to providing quality service to clients, Bill has positioned himself as an indispensable strategic advisor to major companies. He is also majority owner of the Janesville Jets junior hockey team and part-owner of the Oregon Tradesmen junior hockey team.

Before joining Capitol Consultants, Tony Langenohl served as Special Assistant to Governor Thompson and in a variety of public policy and communication roles in the Thompson Administration in the Governor’s Office, the Department of Administration, and the Department of Natural Resources. Tony is the lead lobbyist for several Fortune 100 clients and has developed a reputation for impeccable client service that delivers results.

“Michael Best Strategies has a history of engaging great talent across both major political parties, and this is the latest high-profile move that positions the firm for long-term success,” said Tom Schreibel, Michael Best Strategies Partner and leader of its Wisconsin lobbying practice. “The acquisition maintains the commitment to bipartisan growth and deepens our connections with policymakers at all levels.”

“Capitol Consultants has been part of our family since Carol started the firm in 1992. Joining Strategies will allow us to grow and provide all the collective clients with a one-stop shop for government affairs, business strategy, economic development, legal and public relations,” said Bill McCoshen. ”We built an extremely successful and effective firm over the last 29 years, and we’re excited to partner with Michael Best Strategies in carrying that legacy forward. This move solidifies Strategies as the go-to government relations firm in Wisconsin and positions us well for future growth.”

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Ashley L. Felton

Senior Counsel

alfelton@michaelbest.com

T.984.220.8764

Cameron Field Photo

Cameron F. Field

Senior Counsel

Co-Leader, Cannabis

*Not admitted in Texas

cffield@michaelbest.com

T.512.640.3178

James Fieweger Photo

James P. Fieweger

Partner

jpfieweger@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5849

Joshua Figurski Photo

Joshua R. Figurski*

Practice Group Manager

Intellectual Property

jrfigurski@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4986

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Christine Filarski Photo

Christine A. Filarski

Associate

cafilarski@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5867

John Finerty Photo

John D. Finerty, Jr.

Partner

Industry Group Chair, Banking & Financial Services

jdfinerty@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.8269

Patrick Firth Photo

Patrick L. Firth*

Principal

Michael Best Strategies LLC

plfirth@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.202.844.3828

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

John J. Foley

Network Partner Principal

jjfoley@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.262.269.6291

Daniel Forest Photo

Daniel Forest*

Senior Advisor

Michael Best Strategies LLC

djforest@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.984.220.8751

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

James Forrest Photo

James R. Forrest

Managing Partner, North Carolina

jrforrest@michaelbest.com

T.919.267.1646

Kelly Fortier Photo

Kelly M. Fortier

Partner

Sub-Practice Leader, Immigration

kmfortier@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3460

Steven Foti Photo

Steven M. Foti*

Principal

Michael Best Strategies LLC

smfoti@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.608.257.7470

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Tyler Foti Photo

Tyler J. Foti*

Senior Associate

Michael Best Strategies LLC

tjfoti@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.608.257.7472

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Matthew Francis Photo

Matthew C. Francis*

Patent Agent

mcfrancis@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2702

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

James Franco**

Director of Corporate and Business Development

jfranco@michaelbest.com

T.202.844.3817

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

*Independent contractor teaming with Michael Best.

Alexander Fraser Photo

Alexander P. Fraser

Managing Partner, Milwaukee Office

apfraser@michaelbest.com

T.414.347.4757

Stacy Fredericks Photo

Stacy Fredericks*

Paralegal

sfredericks@michaelbest.com

T.801.924.4131

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Stuart Fredman Photo

Stuart A. Fredman

Partner

safredman@michaelbest.com

T.801.833.0510

Anne Freeland Photo

Anne T. Freeland

Senior Counsel

atfreeland@michaelbest.com

T.385.695.6456

Margaret Fritsch Photo

Margaret M. Fritsch*

Senior Associate – Strategic Communications

Michael Best Strategies LLC

mmfritsch@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.414.223.2504

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Taylor Fritsch Photo

Taylor T. Fritsch

Associate

ttfritsch@michaelbest.com

T.608.257.7471

Meghan Froehlich Photo

Meghan M. Froehlich*

Senior Manager of Client Engagement

mmfroehlich@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2778

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Susan Frohling Photo

Susan H. Frohling

Senior Counsel

shfrohling@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5892

Lauren Fuhrer Photo

Lauren E. Fuhrer*

Strategic Initiatives Director

lefuhrer@michaelbest.com

T.910.660.0920

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Susan Funk

Susan Funk*

Finance & Operations Manager

Michael Best Strategies LLC

sjfunk@michaelbest.com

T.608.257.7483

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Jeffrey Gallagher Photo

Jeffrey R. Gallagher*

Senior Public Affairs Associate

Michael Best Strategies LLC

jrgallagher@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.414.225.2768

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Cory Gardner*

Board of Advisors

Michael Best Strategies LLC

T.202.747.9560

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Heather Gardner Photo

Heather L. Gardner*

Senior Paralegal

hlgardner@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2723

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Thomas Gartner Photo

Thomas O. Gartner

Senior Counsel

togartner@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2716

Daniel Gawronski Photo

Daniel J. Gawronski

Partner

djgawronski@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.0124

Deborah Gerhardt Photo

Deborah R. Gerhardt

Of Counsel

drgerhardt@michaelbest.com

T.984.220.8718

Stephen Gigot Photo

Stephen A. Gigot

Partner

sagigot@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4988

James Gilles Photo

James W. Gilles*

Patent Agent

jwgilles@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3475

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

B. Michael Gillespie*

Associate

bmgillespie@michaelbest.com

T.919.589.1755

*Not admitted in North Carolina

Adam Goldblatt Photo

Adam J. Goldblatt

Partner

ajgoldblatt@michaelbest.com

T.919.561.5133

Nadia Gonzalez Photo

Nadia L. Gonzalez

Associate

nlgonzalez@michaelbest.com

T.608.416.1701

Jennifer Goodrum Photo

Jennifer B. Goodrum*

Principal

Michael Best Strategies LLC

jbgoodrum@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.720.398.0058

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Julie Gorens-Winston Photo

Julie Gorens-Winston

Senior Counsel

jgwinston@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2514

W. Lyle Gravatt Photo

W. Lyle Gravatt

Partner

wlgravatt@michaelbest.com

T.919.578.5693

J. Gray Photo

J. Ryan Gray

Associate

jrgray@michaelbest.com

T.984.220.8731

Denise Greathouse Photo

Denise Greathouse

Partner

dlgreathouse@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6534

Emily Green Photo

Emily Green*

Legislative Assistant

Michael Best Strategies LLC

ejgreen@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.202.747.9566

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Michael Green Photo

Michael S. Green

Partner

Management Committee Member

Firm Hiring Partner

msgreen@michaelbest.com

T.608.257.7482

Katie Greene Photo

Katie Greene

Senior Counsel

lkgreene@michaelbest.com

T.910.660.0931

Abigail Griffin Photo

Abigail J. Griffin*

Patent Agent

ajgriffin@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2758

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Nathan Groth Photo

Nathan D. Groth

Associate

ndgroth@michaelbest.com

T.202.747.9584

Yuri Gruzdkov, Ph.D. Photo

Yuri A. Gruzdkov, Ph.D.

Senior Counsel

yagruzdkov@michaelbest.com

T.512.640.3172

*Not Admitted in Texas

Emily Haas Photo

Emily M. Haas

Senior Counsel

emhaas@michaelbest.com

T.984.220.8745

Ryan Habeck Photo

Ryan L. Habeck*

Paralegal

rlhabeck@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.2247

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Luke Habeeb Photo

Luke J. Habeeb

Associate

ljhabeeb@michaelbest.com

T.312.836.5073

Janet Habina Photo

Janet P. Habina*

Patent Paralegal

jphabina@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5890

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Nancy Haggerty Photo

Nancy Leary Haggerty

Partner

nlhaggerty@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4961

Julie Halverson Photo

Julie T. Halverson*

Paralegal

jthalverson@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2797

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Aaron Harris Photo

Aaron D. Harris

Principal

Michael Best Strategies LLC

Senior Counsel

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

adharris@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.312.596.5899

Gregory Hartwig Photo

Gregory J. Hartwig

Partner

Management Committee Member

gjhartwig@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4943

Dorothy Hauser Photo

Dorothy A. Hauser*

Senior Patent Paralegal

dahauser@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2511

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Garrett Hausman Photo

Garrett M. Hausman

Senior Associate

gmhausman@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5858

Julie A. Haut

Partner

jahaut@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4980

Christina B. Hawkins*

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Michael Best Consulting LLC

cbhawkins@michaelbestconsulting.com

T.984.220.8733

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Devin Hayes Photo

Devin S. Hayes

Associate

dshayes@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2744

Alexis J. Heins*

Patent Paralegal

ajheins@michaelbest.com

T.202.747.9588

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Gregory Helding Photo

Gregory T. Helding

Senior Counsel

gthelding@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2779

Sarah Helton Photo

Sarah C. Helton

Partner & Practice Group Co-Chair, Government Procurement

Michael Best Strategies LLC

Staff Counsel

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

schelton@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.202.747.9575

Jordan Hemaidan Photo

Jordan J. Hemaidan

Partner

Industry Group Chair, Energy

jjhemaidan@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.4431

James Heracklis Photo

James O. Heracklis

Associate

joheracklis@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5884

Nicholas Herdrich Photo

Nicholas J. Herdrich

Partner

njherdrich@michaelbest.com

T.608.257.7473

Lance Hevizy Photo

Lance A. Hevizy

Attorney

lahevizy@michaelbest.com

T.512.684.6321

Mason Higgins Photo

Mason A. Higgins

Associate

mahiggins@michaelbest.com

T.608.416.1705

Christopher Hinrichs Photo

Christopher E. Hinrichs*

Patent Agent

cehinrichs@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2501

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Andrew Hitt Photo

Andrew A. Hitt

Partner

Michael Best Strategies LLC

Senior Counsel

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

aahitt@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.608.283.2257

Emily Hobbs

Emily M. Hobbs

Partner

emhobbs@michaelbest.com

T.720.398.0113

Paul Hoffman Photo

Paul G. Hoffman

Partner

T.-

Todd Hofmeister Photo

Todd S. Hofmeister, Ph.D.

Partner

Sub-Group Leader, Life Sciences

tshofmeister@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5800

Susan Hollender Photo

Susan Lee Hollender*

Chief Growth Officer

slhollender@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5823

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Jayson Hongsermeier Photo

Jayson L. Hongsermeier*

Senior Patent Agent

jlhongsermeier@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6552

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Stephen Horace Photo

Stephen J. Horace

Partner

sjhorace@michaelbest.com

T.720.745.4870

Katie Hrkman

Katie S. Hrkman*

Senior Associate - Operations

Michael Best Strategies LLC

kshrkman@michaelbest.com

T.202.844.3824

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Desmond Hunte Photo

Desmond J. Hunte*

Chief Operating Officer

Michael Best Strategies LLC

djhunte@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.202.747.9578

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Carolyn Isaac Photo

Carolyn E. Isaac

Senior Associate

ceisaac@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5871

JC Isaachsen Photo

JC Isaachsen*

Senior Paralegal

jcisaachsen@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.2256

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Steve Israel Photo

Steve Israel*

Board of Advisors

Senior Counselor, Michael Best Strategies LLC

T.-

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Alexander Izzo Photo

Alexander G. Izzo

Senior Associate

agizzo@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.8297

Robin Jackson Photo

Robin A. Jackson

Associate

rajackson@michaelbest.com

T.720.398.0021

Brian Jacobs Photo

Brian W. Jacobs

Partner

Sub-Group Leader, Engineers, Scientists & Agents

bwjacobs@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2733

Brad Jacobsen Photo

Brad R. Jacobsen

Of Counsel

brjacobsen@michaelbest.com

T.801.833.0503

William James

William R. James*

Patent Engineer

wrjames@michaelbest.com

T.312.223.2534

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

S. Leigh Jeter Photo

S. Leigh Jeter

Senior Counsel

sljeter@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5806

Steven Joffee Photo

Steven J. Joffee

Managing Partner, Utah Offices

sjoffee@michaelbest.com

T.385.695.6482

Robert Johannes Photo

Robert J. Johannes

Partner

rjjohannes@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4954

Benjamin Johnson Photo

Benjamin T. Johnson

Partner

btjohnson@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5851

Luke Johnson Photo

Luke A. Johnson*

Wealth Planning CPA

lajohnson@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6580

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Melissa Johnson Photo

Melissa R. Johnson*

Project Manager, Discovery

mrjohnson@michaelbest.com

T.414.347.4772

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Paul Jonas Photo

Paul R. Jonas

Partner

prjonas@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3466

Andrew Jones Photo

Andrew R. Jones

Managing Partner, North Carolina

arjones@michaelbest.com

T.910.442.8740

Daniel Jones Photo

Daniel S. Jones

Partner

Management Committee Member

dsjones@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4948

Michael Jones Photo

Michael T. Jones

Of Counsel

mtjones@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2536

Paul Jones Photo

Paul A. Jones

Of Counsel

pajones@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.0125

Richard Kaiser Photo

Richard L. Kaiser

Managing Partner, Waukesha Office

Practice Group Chair, Intellectual Property

rlkaiser@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6576

Bradley Kalscheur Photo

Bradley J. Kalscheur

Partner

Sub-Group Leader, Wealth Planning

bjkalscheur@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2763

Natalie Kaplan Photo

Natalie K. Kaplan*

Senior Patent Agent

nkkaplan@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3455

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Daniel Kaufman Photo

Daniel A. Kaufman

Partner

dakaufman@michaelbest.com

T.312.836.5077

Chelsea Kelleher Photo

Chelsea A. Kelleher, CIPP/US

Associate

cakelleher@michaelbest.com

T.720.745.4879

Allison E. Keller*

Senior Paralegal

aekeller@michaelbest.com

T.312.836.5089

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Allyson Kelly Photo

Allyson S. Kelly*

Project Manager I, Innovation & Technology

askelly@michaelbest.com

T.910.673.8561

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Aaron D. Kessinger*

Business Development Principal

Michael Best Strategies LLC

adkessinger@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.415.412.4660

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Leah Kling Photo

Leah M. Kling*

Trademark Paralegal Supervisor

lmkling@michaelbest.com

T.720.745.4861

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Laura Konkel Photo

Laura M. Konkel

Partner

lmkonkel@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.2254

Jordan Koss Photo

Jordan H. Koss

Partner

jhkoss@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5802

Michelle Kouba Photo

Michelle E. Kouba

Partner

mekouba@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5826

Ena Kovacevic Photo

Ena M. Kovacevic

Associate

emkovacevic@michaelbest.com

T.414.271.6560

Colden Krasinski Photo

Colden G. Krasinski*

Patent Agent

cgkrasinski@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3493

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Jerome H. Kringel

Partner

jhkringel@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4923

Raymond Krueger Photo

Raymond R. Krueger

Of Counsel

rrkrueger@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2786

James Kruse Photo

James R. Kruse

Senior Partner

jrkruse@michaelbest.com

T.801.924.4127

David Krutz Photo

David A. Krutz

Firm Managing Partner

dakrutz@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2700

Michael Kuglitsch Photo

Michael Kuglitsch*

Principal

Michael Best Strategies LLC

mskuglitsch@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.608.283.0137

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Laura Laabs Photo

Laura R. Laabs*

Patent Paralegal

lrlaabs@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3490

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Charles Laff Photo

Charles A. Laff

Partner

calaff@michaelbest.com

T.312.661.2140

Laura Laidlaw Photo

Laura N. Laidlaw*

Patent Engineer

lnlaidlaw@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3450

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Y. Lam Photo

Y. Angela Lam

Senior Counsel

yalam@michaelbest.com

T.312.527.6841

Laura Lamansky Photo

Laura Lamansky

Associate

llamansky@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4958

Anthony Langenohl

Anthony Langenohl*

Partner

Michael Best Strategies LLC

atlangenohl@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.608.416.1704

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Michael Langer Photo

Michael R. Langer

Partner

Industry Group Chair, Life Sciences and Chemical

mrlanger@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.2268

Richard Langer Photo

Richard J. Langer

Of Counsel

rjlanger@michaelbest.com

T.-

Polly Lawrence Photo

Polly Lawrence

Principal

Michael Best Strategies

pplawrence@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.720.398.0063

Edward Lawson Photo

Edward R. Lawson, Jr.

Partner

Sub-Group Leader, Mechanical Engineering

erlawson@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2762

Molly Lawson Photo

Molly S. Lawson

Partner

Sub-Group Leader, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

mslawson@michaelbest.com

T.414.347.4749

Andrew Lax Photo

Andrew W. Lax

Of Counsel

awlax@michaelbest.com

T.980.495.2450

Jorge Leon Photo

Jorge M. Leon

Partner

Group Co-Leader, Employee Benefits

Co-Chair, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee

jmleon@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5831

Gwendolyn Lewis Photo

Gwendolyn W. Lewis

Senior Counsel

gwlewis@michaelbest.com

T.980.408.2764

Tod Linstroth Photo

Tod B. Linstroth

Partner

tblinstroth@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.2242

Jason Lohn Photo

Jason S. Lohn*

Senior Paralegal

jslohn@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2754

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Evan Lonergan Photo

Evan Lonergan

Associate

ejlonergan@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5887

Mark Lotito Photo

Mark A. Lotito, Ph.D.

Partner

malotito@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2507

John Love Photo

John D. Love

Partner

jdlove@michaelbest.com

T.919.921.8025

Adam Lowe Photo

Adam J. Lowe

Associate

ajlowe@michaelbest.com

T.414.260.5786

Jonathan Luljak Photo

Jonathan T. Luljak

Senior Associate

jtluljak@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4962

K. Lundgren Photo

K. Thor Lundgren

Of Counsel

ktlundgren@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4952

Audrey Luzader Photo

Audrey N. Luzader

Associate

anluzader@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.8298

Gregory Lynch Photo

Gregory J. Lynch

Partner

gjlynch@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.2240

Katherine Lyons Photo

Katherine M. Lyons

Associate

kmlyons@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5854

Julia Mader Photo

Julia F. Mader

Associate

jfmader@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2719

Bradley W. Madsen

Senior Counsel

bwmadsen@michaelbest.com

T.801.924.4110

Tory Maguire Sendek Photo

Tory Maguire Sendek*

Managing Director

vmsendek@michaelbest.com

T.202.844.3813

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Mason Maney

Mason E. Maney

Associate

memaney@michaelbest.com

T.984.220.8738

Veronica Mantilla Photo

Veronica A. Mantilla

Associate

vamantilla@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.0112

Phillip Maples Photo

Phillip R. Maples

Partner

prmaples@michaelbest.com

T.920.682.9036

Robert Marchant Photo

Robert J. Marchant

President and Partner

Michael Best Strategies LLC

Senior Counsel

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

rjmarchant@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.608.283.2244

Jonathan Margolies Photo

Jonathan H. Margolies

Partner

jhmargolies@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2784

Katherine Marshall Photo

Katherine Marshall*

Patent Engineer

kmarshall@michaelbest.com

T.202.844.3829

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Brian Marstall Photo

Brian J. N. Marstall

Partner

bjmarstall@michaelbest.com

T.202.747.9563

Molly Martell Photo

Molly Martell*

Legislative Assistant

Michael Best Strategies LLC

mcmartell@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.202.844.3840

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Kevin Martin Photo

Kevin A. Martin

Partner

kamartin@michaelbest.com

T.608.257.7467

Porter Martin Photo

Porter J. Martin

Partner

pjmartin@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.0116

Andrew Martzahl Photo

Andrew E. Martzahl

Associate

aemartzahl@michaelbest.com

T.920.686.2806

Galen Mason Photo

Galen R. Mason

Partner

Co-Chair, Venture Best®

gmason@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5814

Richard Mason

Richard J. Mason

Associate

rjmason@michaelbest.com

T.512.640.3162

Mary Katherine Mastaler Photo

Mary Katherine O Mastaler*

Patent Engineer

T.202.844.3839

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Justin G. May

Senior Associate

jgmay@michaelbest.com

T.984.220.8747

Brian McCall Photo

Brian P. McCall

Partner

bpmccall@michaelbest.com

T.608.416.1692

Christina McComas Photo

Christina B. McComas*

Paralegal

cbmccomas@michaelbest.com

T.919.809.5044

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

William McCoshen

William McCoshen*

Partner

Michael Best Strategies LLC

wjmccoshen@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.608.283.2250

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Susan McCue*

Board of Advisors

Michael Best Strategies LLC

T.202.747.9560

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Bethany McCurdy Photo

Bethany C. McCurdy

Senior Counsel

bcmccurdy@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2753

Amber McGee Photo

Amber L. McGee*

Annuity Specialist

almcgee@michaelbest.com

T.262.259.5283

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Emily McGovern Photo

Emily A. McGovern

Associate

eamcgovern@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5861

Chris McNamara Photo

Chris G. McNamara

Associate

cgmcnamara@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2530

Sara Meaney*

Senior Advisor

Michael Best Strategies LLC

T.414.271.6560

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Samuel L. Mehr

Of Counsel

slmehr@michaelbest.com

T.801.924.4113

Carrie E. Meigs

Managing Partner, Raleigh

cemeigs@michaelbest.com

T.984.220.8725

Justin Mertz Photo

Justin M. Mertz

Partner

Sub-Group Leader, Bankruptcy

jmmertz@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4972

Kurt Meyer Photo

Kurt A. Meyer, SPHR®*

Managing Consultant

Best Workplace Solutions, a part of Michael Best Consulting LLC

kameyer@bestworkplacesolutions.com

T.262.956.6593

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Brittani Miller Photo

Brittani M. Miller

Associate

bmmiller@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2739

Laurel J. Mills*

Michael Best Strategies

Executive Operations Specialist

ljmills@michaelbest.com

T.202.844.3810

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Kerryann Minton Photo

Kerryann Haase Minton

Managing Partner, Chicago Office

khminton@michaelbest.com

T.312.836.5075

William Mitchell Photo

William R. Mitchell**

Director of Corporate and Business Development

wrmitchell@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2515

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

*Independent contractor teaming with Michael Best.

H. Miyake Photo

H. Kim Miyake*

Trademark Paralegal

hkmiyake@michaelbest.com

T.801.924.4123

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Leah Moon Photo

Leah N. Moon

Associate

lnmoon@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.2249

Kevin Moran Photo

Kevin P. Moran

Partner

kpmoran@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6510

Melinda Morgan Photo

Melinda A. Morgan

Partner

mamorgan@michaelbest.com

T.801.833.0502

David Morris Photo

David E. Morris*

Partner

demorris@michaelbest.com

T.919.355.5105

*Not admitted in North Carolina

Vincent Morrone Photo

Vincent M. Morrone

Partner

vmmorrone@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3477

Matthew Moss

Matthew R. Moss*

Chief Financial Officer

mrmoss@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5832

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Kevin Mueller Photo

Kevin R. Mueller*

Patent Paralegal

krmueller@michaelbest.com

T.414. 225.2745

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Robert Mulcahy Photo

Robert W. Mulcahy

Partner

rwmulcahy@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2761

Nicole Murphey Photo

Nicole A. Murphey

Partner

namurphey@michaelbest.com

T.704.954.8328

Joshua Murrell Photo

Joshua P. Murrell

Associate

jpmurrell@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5893

Jason Muth Photo

Jason P. Muth

Senior Associate

jpmuth@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4939

Katherine Muth Photo

Katherine I. Muth

Associate

kimuth@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4977

Jamie Nelson Photo

Jamie J. Nelson*

Senior Paralegal

jjnelson@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2790

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Plymouth Nelson Photo

Plymouth D. Nelson

Partner

pdnelson@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6544

Timothy Nielsen Photo

Timothy E. Nielsen

Of Counsel

tenielsen@michaelbest.com

T.385.695.6466

Caleb Nitz Photo

Caleb M. Nitz*

Patent Agent

cmnitz@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6541

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Karl Nobert Photo

Karl M. Nobert

Senior Counsel

kmnobert@michaelbest.com

T.202.844.3831

Aaron Nodolf Photo

Aaron K. Nodolf

Partner

aknodolf@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6536

Amy Nolan-Horvey Photo

Amy Nolan-Horvey*

Paralegal

adnolanhorvey@michaelbest.com

T.303.228.2380

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Thomas Obenberger Photo

Thomas E. Obenberger

Partner

teobenberger@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4960

Elizabeth Odian Photo

Elizabeth A. Odian

Partner

eaodian@michaelbest.com

T.414.347.4770

José Olivieri Photo

José A. Olivieri

Managing Partner, Milwaukee Office

Industry Group Chair, Higher Education

jaolivieri@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4967

Joseph Olson Photo

Joseph L. Olson

Partner

jlolson@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3465

Tara Ortner Photo

Tara J. Ortner*

Patent Engineer

tjortner@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2747

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Lucas Osborn Photo

Lucas S. Osborn

Of Counsel

lsosborn@michaelbest.com

T.984.220.8727

Jonathan Pacocha

Jonathan M. Pacocha*

Patent Engineer

jmpacocha@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2727

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Charles Palmer Photo

Charles B. Palmer

Partner

Sub-Practice Leader, Workplace Safety & Health

cbpalmer@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6518

Todd Palmer Photo

Todd E. Palmer

Partner

Practice Group Co-Chair, Regulatory

Sub-Practice Leader, Environmental & Natural Resources

tepalmer@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.4432

Mark Pappas Photo

Mark T. Pappas*

Client Engagement Lead

Michael Best Strategies LLC

mtpappas@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.262.956.6543

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Andrew Paprocki Photo

Andrew J. Paprocki

Senior Counsel

ajpaprocki@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3451

Tanya Parent Photo

Tanya M. Parent*

Senior Patent Paralegal

tmparent@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.8274

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Christopher Parker Photo

Christopher R. Parker

Senior Counsel

crparker@michaelbest.com

T.312.222.4954

Matthew Parker

Matthew G. Parker

Associate

mgparker@michaelbest.com

T.984.220.8737

Emi Passini Photo

Emi M. Passini

Associate

empassini@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4982

Michael Pastoria Photo

Michael A. Pastoria*

Patent Engineer

mapastoria@michaelbest.com

T.414.270. 2735

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Hamang Patel Photo

Hamang B. Patel

Partner

hbpatel@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.2278

Brian Paul Photo

Brian P. Paul

Partner

Practice Group Chair, Labor & Employment Relations

bppaul@michaelbest.com

T.312.527.6843

Kirk Pelikan Photo

Kirk A. Pelikan

Partner

kapelikan@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2529

Katelyn Pellitteri Photo

Katelyn A. Pellitteri

Senior Associate

kapellitteri@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2708

Alex Peterson Photo

Alex L. Peterson

Associate

alpeterson@michaelbest.com

T.608.257.3063

Jeffrey Peterson Photo

Jeffrey D. Peterson

Partner

Sub-Practice Leader, Licensing & Technology Agreements

jdpeterson@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.0129

Silas Petrie Photo

Silas B. Petrie*

Patent Engineer

sbpetrie@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3445

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Jerry Pettigrew Photo

Jerry L. Pettigrew*

Learning Experience Architect

Best Workplace Solutions, a part of Michael Best Consulting LLC

jlpettigrew@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6528

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Sylina C. Phelan*

North Carolina Administration & Operations Manager

scphelan@michaelbest.com

T.910.550.3123

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Kay Pickels Photo

Kay B. Pickels*

Paralegal

kbpickels@michaelbest.com

T.910.408.3260

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Ian Pitz Photo

Ian A. J. Pitz

Partner

iapitz@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.0107

Virginia Pleasants Photo

Virginia S. Pleasants

Senior Counsel

vspleasants@michaelbest.com

T.336.546.5977

Elizabeth Poehlman Photo

Elizabeth J. Poehlman*

Patent Engineer

ejpoehlman@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5891

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Elizabeth Prendergast Photo

Elizabeth A. Prendergast

Partner

eaprendergast@michaelbest.com

T.720.240.9515

David Price Photo

David R. Price

Partner

drprice@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4983

Reince Priebus Photo

Reince Priebus

President & Chief Strategist

Chairman of the Board of Advisors, Michael Best Strategies LLC

rpriebus@michaelbest.com

T.-

Peter Prommer Photo

Peter J. Prommer

Partner

pjprommer@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5863

Sharon Prosek Photo

Sharon M. Prosek*

Senior Trademark Paralegal

smprosek@michaelbest.com

T.312.527.3452

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Mitchell Quick Photo

Mitchell W. Quick

Partner

mwquick@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2755

David Ramirez Photo

David S. Ramirez*

Principal

Michael Best Strategies LLC

dsramirez@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.312.596.5817

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Prateek Reddy Photo

Prateek Reddy

Senior Associate

preddy@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5811

Melanie Reichenberger Photo

Melanie J. Reichenberger

Partner

mjreichenberger@michaelbest.com

T.414.347.4755

Jeffrey Remsik Photo

Jeffrey J. Remsik*

Senior Advisor – Strategic Communications

Michael Best Strategies LLC

jjremsik@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.414.270.2736

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Richard Ressler Photo

Richard J. Ressler

Managing Partner, Austin Office

rjressler@michaelbest.com

T.512.485.9420

Katherine Reynolds Photo

Katherine M. Reynolds

Partner

kmreynolds@michaelbest.com

T.920.682.9994

Andrea Riccio Photo

Andrea M. Riccio*

Principal

Michael Best Strategies LLC

amriccio@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.202.747.9561

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Keith Richardson Photo

Keith E. Richardson

Partner

kerichardson@michaelbest.com

T.919.670.4963

Lyndon Ricks Photo

Lyndon L. Ricks

Partner

llricks@michaelbest.com

T.801.924.4103

Jared Riedl Photo

Jared D. Riedl

Partner

jdriedl@michaelbest.com

T.414.347.4759

Farrah Rifelj Photo

Farrah N.W. Rifelj

Partner

Sub-Practice Leader, Affirmative Action

Co-Chair, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee

Management Committee Member

fnwrifelj@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.0110

Haley Rishmawi Photo

Haley Q. Rishmawi*

Paralegal

hqrishmawi@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4930

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Deborah Robb Photo

Deborah M. Robb*

Wealth Planning CPA

dmrobb@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6542

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Bret Roge Photo

Bret A. Roge

Partner

baroge@michaelbest.com

T.414.347.4776

Elizabeth Rogers Photo

Elizabeth A. Rogers, CIPP/US

Partner

earogers@michaelbest.com

T.512.640.3164

Jason Rogers Photo

Jason D. Rogers

Partner

Practice Group Chair, Corporate & Transactional

jdrogers@michaelbest.com

T.801.833.0504

Kelly Rourke Photo

Kelly R. Rourke

Partner

krrourke@michaelbest.com

T.414.347.4741

Steven Rowe Photo

Steven P. Rowe*

Senior Advisor

Michael Best Strategies LLC

sprowe@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.801.924.4129

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Eric Rumbaugh Photo

Eric H. Rumbaugh

Partner

Sub-Practice Leader, Unfair Competition & Trade Secrets

ehrumbaugh@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2742

Akhil Sadhu Photo

Akhil Sadhu*

Patent Engineer

asadhu@michaelbest.com

T.414.260.5790

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Rose Sadlon Photo

Rose M. Sadlon*

Wealth Planning CPA

rmsadlon@michaelbest.com

T.414.347.4748

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Serene Sahar Photo

Serene R. Sahar

Partner

srsahar@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3478

Tanya Salman Photo

Tanya M. Salman

Partner

tmsalman@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.0122

Bobbi Sandretto Photo

Bobbi L. Sandretto*

Senior Annuity Specialist

blsandretto@michaelbest.com

T.414.347.4745

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Peter Sandvick Photo

Peter T. Sandvick

Associate

ptsandvick@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2528

Larry Saret Photo

Larry L. Saret

Partner

T.-

S. Edward Sarskas Photo

S. Edward Sarskas

Partner

sesarskas@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2521

C. Schaefer Photo

C. Nick Schaefer

Associate

cnschaefer@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.8265

Timothy Schally Photo

Timothy G. Schally

Partner

Practice Group Chair, Tax

tgschally@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4987

John Scheller Photo

John C. Scheller

Partner

jcscheller@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.2276

Charles Schellpeper Photo

Charles R. Schellpeper*

Legislative Assistant

Michael Best Strategies LLC

crschellpeper@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6535

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Elizabeth Scherbarth Photo

Elizabeth K. Scherbarth*

Patent Paralegal

ekscherbarth@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6523

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Michael Schietzelt Photo

Michael G. Schietzelt

Associate

mgschietzelt@michaelbest.com

T.984.220.8722

Madeline Schmid Photo

Madeline C. Schmid

Associate

mcschmid@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4955

Marshall Schmitt Photo

Marshall J. Schmitt

Partner

mjschmitt@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5828

Robert A. Schnur

Of Counsel

raschnur@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4934

Thomas Schreibel Photo

Thomas B. Schreibel*

Partner

Michael Best Strategies LLC

tbschreibel@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.262.844.2428

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Christopher Schreiber Photo

Christopher J. Schreiber

Partner

cjschreiber@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.8284

Jason Schultz Photo

Jason B. Schultz*

Chief Innovation and Technology Officer

jbschultz@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6524

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Thomas Scrivner Photo

Thomas W. Scrivner

Partner

twscrivner@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4965

Christopher Seamster Photo

Christopher D. Seamster

Partner

cdseamster@michaelbest.com

T.336.510.3338

Lee Seese Photo

Lee M. Seese

Partner

lmseese@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2502

Harsha Sekar Photo

Harsha A. Sekar

Partner

hasekar@michaelbest.com

T.720.745.4856

Guy Sereff Photo

Guy B. Sereff, CIPP/US

Partner

gbsereff@michaelbest.com

T.720.745.4867

Kristine Seymour Photo

Kristine N. Seymour

Partner

Michael Best Strategies LLC

Senior Counsel

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

knseymour@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.262.956.6568

Jay Dee F. Shattuck*

Principal

fshattuck@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.312.596.5845

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

David Shea Photo

David N. Shea

Associate

dnshea@michaelbest.com

T.608.416.1689

Zachary Shear Photo

Zachary H. Shear*

Patent Engineer

zhshear@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2706

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Naoko Shimakawa-Urena Photo

Naoko Shimakawa-Urena*

Patent Paralegal

nshimakawaurena@michaelbest.com

T.202.747.9586

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Kayla Shively Photo

Kayla C. Shively

Associate

kcshively@michaelbest.com

T.980.580.4704

Brianna Siebken Photo

Brianna J. Siebken

Associate

bjsiebken@michaelbest.com

T.312.661.7311

David Sigmon Photo

David M. Sigmon

Partner

dmsigmon@michaelbest.com

T.919.324.3531

Elizabeth Simonis Photo

Elizabeth T. Simonis

Associate

etsimonis@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2710

Kirpal Singh Photo

Kirpal Singh

Director of Market Development

ksingh@michaelbest.com

T.720.745.4875

*Not Admitted in Texas

Wesley Skiles

Wes Skiles*

Principal

Michael Best Strategies LLC

wskiles@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.720.240.9518

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Sean Smestad Photo

Sean A. Smestad*

Senior Counsel

sasmestad@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5888

*Not admitted in Illinois

Julianne Smith Photo

Julianne M. Smith*

Senior Patent Agent

jsmith@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2539

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Terrell Smith Photo

Terrell W. Smith

Of Counsel

twsmith@michaelbest.com

T.801.924.4153

Kyle Snyder Photo

Kyle T. Snyder

Principal

Michael Best Consulting LLC

ktsnyder@michaelbestconsulting.com

T.984.220.8744

Rachel Spivey Photo

Rachel Spivey*

Legislative Assistant

Michael Best Strategies LLC

rjspivey@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.202.844.3830

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Beth Stanfield Photo

Beth A. Stanfield

Partner

bastanfield@michaelbest.com

T.910.777.5751

Russell Steinbrenner Photo

Russell M. Steinbrenner

Senior Counsel

rmsteinbrenner@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2798

Judson Stelter Photo

Judson D. Stelter

Partner

jdstelter@michaelbest.com

T.385.695.6454

Sabrina Stencil Photo

Sabrina G. Stencil*

Associate

Michael Best Strategies LLC

sgstencil@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.608.416.1703

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Hannah Stepp Photo

Hannah K. Stepp*

Senior Business Development Executive

Michael Best Strategies LLC

hkstepp@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.0123

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Martin Stern Photo

Martin L. Stern

Partner

mlstern@michaelbest.com

T.312.661.2121

Derek Stettner Photo

Derek C. Stettner

Partner

dcstettner@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4947

Charles Stevens Photo

Charles P. Stevens

Partner

cpstevens@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.8268

J. Zack Stevens*

Legal Project Manager

jzstevens@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5836

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Sheila Stevens Photo

Sheila Boothby Stevens

Partner

sbstevens@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.2252

Vicki Stevens Photo

Vicki M. Stevens*

Senior Paralegal

vmstevens@michaelbest.com

T.801.833.0468

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Shawn Stigler Photo

Shawn T. Stigler

Managing Partner, Colorado Offices

Co-Chair, Venture Best®

ststigler@michaelbest.com

T.303.731.2034

Chantelle W. Stocco*

Senior Paralegal

cwstocco@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2523

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Katarina Stockton Photo

Katarina D. Stockton

Associate

kdstockton@michaelbest.com

T.984.220.8752

Brent Stork Photo

Brent A. Stork

Partner

bastork@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3470

Evan Strassberg Photo

Evan S. Strassberg

Partner

esstrassberg@michaelbest.com

T.801.833.0477

Kimberly Streff Photo

Kimberly A. Streff

Senior Associate

kastreff@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2787

Terry Sullivan, M.D.*

Senior Clinical Advisor

Michael Best Strategies LLC

tsullivan@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.720.398.0054

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Roxanne Suson

Roxanne F. Suson

Healthcare Innovation Research Analyst

Michael Best Strategies LLC

rfsuson@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.262.955.5990

Elias Swanson Photo

Elias R. Swanson

Partner

erswanson@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.4423

Katrena Sweetney Photo

Katrena A. Sweetney*

Patent Paralegal

kasweetney@michaelbest.com

T.202.747.9587

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Trevon Sylvester*

Senior Associate

Michael Best Strategies LLC

tasylvester@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.312.596.5809

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Brian Taffora Photo

Brian R. Taffora*

Principal

Michael Best Strategies LLC

brtaffora@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.414.223.2532

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Jane Taugher Photo

Jane C. Taugher*

Senior Paralegal

Wealth Planning Client Coordinator

jctaugher@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3497

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Courtney Tedrowe

Courtney D. Tedrowe

Partner

cdtedrowe@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5822

Kelly Teelin Photo

Kelly A. Teelin*

Corporate Services Professional

kateelin@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.0132

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Dawn Ternig Photo

Dawn S. Ternig*

Senior Trademark Paralegal

dsternig@michaelbest.com

T.312.661.2109

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Kevin Terry Photo

Kevin J.T. Terry

Partner

kterry@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2734

Himanshu Thakur Photo

Himanshu Thakur*

Senior Patent Paralegal

hthakur@michaelbest.com

T.312.222.0800

*Names that appear with an asterisk indicate a Michael Best professional not admitted to practice law.

Jason Thompson Photo

Jason T. Thompson

Partner

jtthompson@michaelbest.com

T.414.277.3482

Martin Tierney Photo

Martin P. Tierney

Partner

Group Co-Leader, Employee Benefits

mptierney@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2533

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Partner

Co-Leader, Securities & Capital Markets

kctimken@michaelbest.com

T.801.924.4124

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Christopher M. Tobin

Partner

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T.202.747.9597

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Jill A. Toporkiewicz*

Senior Director of Client Value

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T.312.596.5824

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Jamison J. Traas*

Senior Legal Finance & Operations Analyst

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T.414.225.2783

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David J. Trautschold

Partner

djtrautschold@michaelbest.com

T.414.347.4761

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Jon R. Trembath

Partner

jrtrembath@michaelbest.com

T.720.745.4868

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Jaime L. Treml*

Senior Trademark Paralegal

jltreml@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6509

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Elizabeth M. Campbell Tressler*

Senior Patent Paralegal

ectressler@michaelbest.com

T.312.222.0800

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Associate

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T.608.416.1696

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Lauren A. Triebenbach

Partner

latriebenbach@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4929

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Associate

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T.720.398.0036

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Clare M. Trunkett*

Patent Engineer

cmtrunkett@michaelbest.com

T.414.347.4740

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Brian R. Tumm

Senior Counsel

brtumm@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.8281

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Melissa M. Turczyn

Managing Partner, Madison

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T.608.257.7484

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Bonnie J. Turczynski*

Senior Paralegal

bjturczynski@michaelbest.com

T.920.482.4825

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Daniel J. Vaccaro

Partner

djvaccaro@michaelbest.com

T.414.223.2535

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Brett R. Valentyn

Senior Counsel

brvalentyn@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.2251

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Sean B. Van Eysden*

Patent Agent

sbvaneysden@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.2765

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Bridget Visconti*

Associate

Michael Best Strategies LLC

bfvisconti@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.202.595.7931

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Stephanie N. Vojas

Partner

Michael Best Strategies LLC

snvojas@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.312.596.5837

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Betsy T. Voter

Partner

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btvoter@michaelbest.com

T.801.924.4105

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Roy E. Wagner

Partner

Leader, Construction Law

rewagner@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2707

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Marcus D. Walker*

Associate

mdwalker@michaelbest.com

T.984.220.8734

*Not admitted in North Carolina

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D. Adam Wanee

Partner

dawanee@michaelbest.com

T.919.287.3458

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Senior Counsel

gtwasylak@michaelbest.com

T.910.218.3957

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Partner

gaweitzer@michaelbest.com

T.262.956.6515

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Teresa J. Welch, Ph.D.

Partner

tjwelch@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.0108

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Drew S. Whiting

Senior Counsel

dswhiting@michaelbest.com

T.312.515.9838

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John D. Wiggen

Senior Counsel

jdwiggen@michaelbest.com

T.910.218.3958

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Principal & Head of Operations

Michael Best Strategies LLC

lkwills@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.262.956.6547

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Ted A. Wisnefski

Partner

tawisnefski@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2704

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Partner

aewitkov@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.8292

Thomas A. Worth

Of Counsel

taworth@michaelbest.com

T.336.609.6012

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Jennifer M. Yaccarino*

Patent Paralegal

jmyaccarino@michaelbest.com

T.262.259.5302

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Arimi Yamada

Partner

ayamada@michaelbest.com

T.202.844.3814

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Yoichiro Yamaguchi

Partner

yyamaguchi@michaelbest.com

T.202.747.9592

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Senior Associate

mcyeh@michaelbest.com

T.920.686.2816

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Paralegal

scyoung@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.8295

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Maryelena Zaccardelli

Senior Counsel

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mezaccardelli@michaelbest.com

T.202.747.9567

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Kimberly L. Zaverl*

Clinical Strategist & Researcher

Michael Best Strategies LLC

klzaverl@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.262.259.5293

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Evan N. Zeppos, APR*

Principal & Senior Public Affairs Advisor

Michael Best Strategies LLC

enzeppos@michaelbeststrategies.com

T.414.225.4968

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Senior Associate

jlzerkle@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5808

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Blaine J. Zern, Ph.D.

Associate

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bjzern@michaelbest.com

T.312.596.5833

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Senior Counsel

cmzieglerthomas@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.8271

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Associate

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T.312.596.5889

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Partner

Practice Group Co-Chair, Regulatory

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lhziemba@michaelbest.com

T.608.283.4420

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Associate

ktzittle@michaelbest.com

T.720.398.0068

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Angela M. Zsakovics*

Immigration Administrator

amzsakovics@michaelbest.com

T.414.225.4953

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Jessica L. Zuba*

Senior Paralegal

jlzuba@michaelbest.com

T.414.270.2721

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