Practice areas

• Fraud

• Embezzlement

• Money Laundering

• Misappropriation of Funds

• Securities Law Violations

• Theft of Trade Secrets

• Copyright Infringement

• Trademark Infringement

“White col­lar” crime is usu­al­ly used to describe finan­cial crimes com­mit­ted by busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als, man­agers, or oth­er peo­ple who use their posi­tions or to improp­er­ly obtain mon­ey or prop­er­ty. Read more

• Possession of a Controlled Substance

• Delivering, Distributing, or Manufacturing a Controlled Substance

• Fraudulently Obtaining Prescription Drugs

• Drug Conspiracies

Drug cas­es gen­er­al­ly to fall into a two cat­e­gories. “Sim­ple” pos­ses­sion cas­es can involve mar­i­jua­na, cocaine, hero­in, pre­scrip­tion pills, or any num­ber of oth­er drugs. “Dis­tri­b­u­tion” cas­es may involve alle­ga­tions of any­thing from a sin­gle deliv­ery all the way up to par­tic­i­pa­tion in a large-scale drug con­spir­a­cy. Read more

• Disorderly Conduct

• Battery

• Stalking

Emo­tions run high in Domes­tic Vio­lence cas­es. Accusers may be angry about a dif­fi­cult rela­tion­ship or infi­deli­ty; there may be an ongo­ing (or planned) divorce or legal bat­tle over child cus­tody, or finan­cial pres­sures. Clients can have the dou­ble bur­den of a bro­ken rela­tion­ship and crim­i­nal charge. Under­stand­ing how clients and wit­ness­es react to crim­i­nal charges requires expe­ri­ence, strat­e­gy, and some­times coun­sel­ing to reach a good result. Read more

• Intentional Homicide

• Reckless Homicide

• Negligent Homicide

• Homicide by Intoxicated Use of a Vehicle

There is a rea­son why there are so many books, movies, and tele­vi­sion shows about homi­cide — defend­ing a homi­cide case is the ulti­mate chal­lenge for a defense lawyer. Defense of a homi­cide takes the full range of legal skills and tal­ents, an excep­tion­al amount of dri­ve, and care­ful judg­ment. Expe­ri­ence — and a track record of suc­cess — can make the dif­fer­ence between a bad out­come and a pos­i­tive one.  Read more

• Sexual Assault

• Internet Sex Crimes

• Child Pornography

Sex­u­al assault alle­ga­tions can take almost any form – they can involve strangers, cowork­ers, friends, or even fam­i­ly mem­bers. Alle­ga­tions do not just include forcible assault – they might involve any form of will­ing sex­u­al con­tact – between ther­a­pists and clients, doc­tors and patients, teach­ers and stu­dents, and even between a 17-year-old and their 16- or 15-year-old boyfriend or girl­friend. Some cas­es leade to crim­i­nal charges when one per­son claims that he or she was too intox­i­cat­ed to give con­sent. Read more

Even though Wisconsin’s gun laws are con­tin­u­ing to change, state and fed­er­al author­i­ties still pros­e­cute a large num­ber of cas­es of ille­gal firearm pos­ses­sion. Most peo­ple know that fed­er­al law pro­hibits pos­ses­sion of a firearm by any­one with a felony con­vic­tion. But did you know that it is ille­gal to pos­sess a firearm if you have been con­vict­ed of a domes­tic vio­lence mis­de­meanor – even if it was dis­or­der­ly con­duct con­vic­tion from a shout­ing match between hus­band and wife. Fed­er­al law also pro­hibits pos­ses­sion of a firearm by ille­gal aliens, or by those who have been dis­hon­or­ably dis­charged from mil­i­tary ser­vice, or by ille­gal drug users. Know­ing­ly pro­vid­ing a firearm to a “pro­hib­it­ed per­son” is also a fed­er­al crime – so don’t even think about invit­ing your old bud­dies on a hunt­ing trip if you think they may have been con­vict­ed of a crime in the past. Read more

• Theft

• Burglary

• Criminal Trespass

• Forgery

• Identity Theft

• Arson