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Photo: State Bar of Wisconsin/Andy Manis, photographer
he top five Wisconsin Legal Innovators of 2014, in the estimation of the State Bar of Wisconsin, met in Madison this past fall. From left: Anne Smith, Michael J. Gonring, L’82, Kelly A. Twigger, L’97, Beth Ann Richlen, and Karen E. Christenson, L’78. Karen E. Christenson spearheaded the planning for, and was the first presiding judge in, Milwaukee County’s Family Drug Treatment Court. She led a team of professionals working with drug treatment counselors, service coordinators, and child welfare professionals to help return children to their parents, if possible. Michael J. Gonring, with funds donated to Marquette Law School by colleagues Juliana Ebert, L’81, and Frank Daily, L’68, to honor Gonring’s career-long leadership in pro bono service, prompted the Law School, in partnership with the Milwaukee Bar Association, to create a mobile legal clinic, housed in a specially outfitted bus. The clinic sets up shop in different places in Milwaukee County, reaching those who otherwise would not get legal help.
Kelly A. Twigger and attorneys at the company she created, ESI Attorneys, developed an app for the iPad, eDiscovery Assistant, to assist clients in keeping up with the rapidly changing area of e-discovery. The app curates resources litigators need at their fingertips—rules, case digests, checklists, templates, and more. More information about the awards is available at www.wisbar.org.
Three Marquette lawyers have been named to the Milwaukee Business Journal’s 2015 list of “40 Under 40,” a roster of upcoming leaders in Milwaukee.
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Danielle M. Bergner, L’05,
Rebeca M. López, L’12, an attorney
Rebecca Hopkins Mitich, L’09, of
a member of the Milwaukee City Attorney’s Office.
with the Milwaukee office of Godfrey & Kahn.
Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, Milwaukee.