Combining hands-on courtroom experience with scholarly expertise, Kirsten gives clients every advantage to achieve their legal objectives.
Kirsten’s robust courtroom experience shapes her complex trial and appellate litigation practice. Representing clients ranging from local small businesses to Fortune 500 companies in contract, tort and property disputes, Kirsten has tried multiple cases to jury verdict in state and federal courts. Having also played a key role in many appellate teams, Kirsten guides clients through every phase of litigation.
Kirsten offers clients a unique perspective on administrative law issues. She has litigated disputes before administrative bodies, challenged administrative decisions in court and published scholarship on the subject. Her article in the Wisconsin Law Review has been cited numerous times in law journals, in an attorney general opinion and in multiple judicial opinions—including the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s groundbreaking decision on administrative agency authority amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Legislature v. Palm.
Before joining the firm, Kirsten served as a legal intern for the Office of the Wisconsin Solicitor General, where she assisted in representing the State of Wisconsin in high stakes appeals before both state and federal appellate courts. She also interned with a non-profit law firm devoted to helping trade groups and the business community at large understand, comply with and challenge state-level administrative regulation.