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Overview

Angela is a client-focused attorney who splits her time between commercial litigation and working to resolve insurance coverage disputes.

While she attempts to resolve litigation before it goes to trial, Angela particularly thrives in the courtroom. She has obtained victories for clients at all levels of litigation, including motion hearings, summary judgment, motions to dismiss and appeals. Her experience involves premise liability, breach of contract, collections, commercial evictions and more. She understands how stressful court can be for a client, and she serves as both a guide and an advocate so that clients can focus on their business.

In the insurance arena, she focuses on two key areas of the industry – commercial general liability (CGL) and environmental insurance. Environmental insurance is especially important because it can involve significant exposure claims that pose extreme risks to the insurance company. She is actively involved after a claim has been made under a client’s Environmental Pollution Liability policy for coverage. For CGL policies, Angela counsels insurance company clients regarding coverage for claims and litigates coverage disputes on the side of the insurance company.

Angela enjoys pro bono work, especially on civil rights cases, an interest she developed through volunteer work during law school. Together with Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, she also co-leads a pro bono guardianship clinic that helps provide equal access to the often-convoluted guardianship process. She also leads Husch Blackwell’s LGBTQ Employee Resource Group as part of the firm’s diversity and inclusion efforts.

Industry

Services

Recognition

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Real Estate, 2021-2024
  • Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission, Wisconsin Pro Bono Honor Society, 2020

Education

  • J.D., Marquette University Law School
    • Wagner National Labor and Employment Moot Court, lead oralist, second-best brief and semifinalist
    • Marquette Pro Bono Society
  • B.A., Carthage College
    • Political Science and Spanish
    • Lincoln Scholar

Admissions

  • Wisconsin

Professional Memberships and Certifications

  • LGBT Bar Association of Wisconsin
  • State Bar of Wisconsin
  • LGBT Bar Association of Wisconsin, Board of Directors 
  • Cream City Foundation, Board of Directors and LGBTQ Scholarship Committee Member

Languages

  • Spanish, conversant
Experience
  • Filed amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court – most recently in Bostock v. Clayton County and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC, related cases asking whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or transgender status.
Outside the Office

Angela is an avid indoor rock climber who has previously led rock climbing clubs for children. She also just completed her first half marathon and plans to run many more in the future.

Community Leadership

Angela is on the Board of Directors for Milwaukee’s Cream City Foundation, which seeks to advance the human rights and respond to the needs of LGBTQ+ people in Southeastern Wisconsin. Angela is also one of the founding members of the organization’s LGBTQ+ Scholarship program, which assists LGBTQ youth in affording college and related academic endeavors.

She is an active member of the LGBT Bar Association of Wisconsin’s Board of Directors. The LGBT Bar is involved in Wisconsin’s LGBTQ legal community and seeks to provide opportunities for education, advancement and networking for its members.