Twelve attorneys from the law firm of O’Neil Cannon were selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Nearly 1/3 of the firm’s attorneys were listed in 16 distinct practice areas to include:

• James G. DeJong – Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Securities/Capital Markets Law
• Seth E. Dizard – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights; Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation–Bankruptcy
• Peter J. Faust – Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• John G. Gehringer – Commercial Litigation; Construction Law; Corporate Law; Real Estate Law
• Dennis W. Hollman – Corporate Law; Trusts and Estates
• Dean P. Laing – Commercial Litigation; Personal Injury Litigation–Plaintiffs; Product Liability Litigation–Defendants
• Gregory W. Lyons – Commercial Litigation
• Thomas A. Merkle – Family Law
• Steven J. Slawinski – Construction Law

Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a prestigious honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

(Copyright 2013 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.)

Grant Killoran, Chair of O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong and Laing’s Litigation Practice Group, recently was named a Fellow of the Wisconsin Law Foundation.

The Fellows organization was created in 1999 to honor members of the State Bar of Wisconsin who have achieved significant accomplishments in their careers and contributed leadership and service to their communities.  Membership in the Fellows is limited to 2.5% of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s members.

The Fellows aims to energize its members to continue their efforts in the promotion of justice, advancement of the legal profession and improvement of legal education.  For more information on the Fellows click here.

At its Annual Meeting on June 11, 2013, the Milwaukee Bar Association collectively honored as its 2013 “Attorneys of the Year” those area attorneys, including the attorneys of O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong and Laing S.C., who serve as volunteers at the Milwaukee Justice Center.

The MBA, in conjunction with the Marquette University Law School, the Milwaukee County Circuit Courts and other organizations, established the Milwaukee Justice Center in 2009.  The Milwaukee Justice Center is a free limited legal advice clinic held at the Milwaukee County Courthouse.  It uses transformative collaborative partnerships to provide free legal assistance to Milwaukee County’s unrepresented litigants through court-based self help desks and legal resources.

Recognizing the importance of this project, O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong and Laing became a founding member of the consortium of area law firms that agreed to provide attorney volunteers to the staff the Milwaukee Justice Center.  O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong and Laing’s attorneys have been volunteering at the Milwaukee Justice Center since the inception of its formal program in 2009. Grant Killoran, the Chair of O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong and Laing’s Litigation Practice Group, also serves as a member of the MBA Steering Committee overseeing the Milwaukee Justice Center program.

Judge clears way for Falls Radisson sale

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – August 26, 2013

The eventual sale of the publicly financed Menomonee Falls Radisson Hotel took an initial step forward Monday. Waukesha County Circuit Judge James Kieffer granted a request by the Village of Menomonee Falls to expand the powers of a court-appointed …

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Menomonee Falls Patch – August 26, 2013

A Waukesha County Circuit court judge on Monday granted a receivership attorney expanded powers to market and sell the Radisson Hotel property, which has been in foreclosure. Receivership attorney Seth Dizard has overseen operations at the hotel …

The American Bar Association Section of Litigation has published its Summer 2013 Edition of the Health Law Litigation Newsletter.  This edition contains articles on a number of topics, including recent developments of interest to practitioners who handle health care disputes, including articles on the False Claims Act, HIPAA, life sciences training and health care compliance issues.  An electronic version of this edition of the Health Law Litigation Newsletter can be found at https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation.

Grant Killoran, the Chair of O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong and Laing’s Litigation Practice Group, is a former Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation’s Health Law Litigation Committee and currently serves as the Co-Editor of its Health Law Litigation Newsletter.

Attorney Gregory S. Mager presented Child Related Financial Issues, Property Division, Maintenance on August 2, 2013 at the State Bar of Wisconsin’s 32nd Annual Family Law Workshop in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.

Attorney Timothy Van de Kamp of the law firm of O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong and Laing was elected to the Board of Directors of Real Estate Alliance for Charity (REACH). REACH is the primary charity organization of Commercial Association of REALTORS® (CARW), and has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from generous professionals in the commercial real estate industry and provides much-needed grants to local charities. The organization supports the hearing and visually impaired, the developmentally disabled, disadvantaged youth, and families in need throughout Greater Milwaukee.

Tim is a member of the firm’s Corporate Practice Group and works on the firm’s Real Estate and Construction and Banking and Creditors’ Rights teams. He advises and

represents individuals, businesses, and banks on a variety of real estate, corporate, and banking related issues, including property acquisitions and dispositions; commercial, retail and office leasing; zoning and land use law; and creditors’ rights.

Attorney Peter Walsh has published an article titled “Multijurisdictional Practice of Law Issues in Estate Planning,” in the June, 2013 issue of the national estate planning magazine Estate Planning (an RIA Publication).  The article addresses the complex issue of the extent to which an estate planning attorney may provide legal services to a resident of a state in which the attorney is not licensed.  Peter has lectured on this subject to Milwaukee Bar Association (February, 2012) and the Estate Planning Section of Wisconsin State Bar (November, 2011).

Peter’s interest in this area springs from his own multijurisdictional estate planning practice.  As an attorney licensed to practice law in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Florida, Peter regularly provides legal assistance to residents of these states, and he has extensive experience with nuances of the laws of each state.

Peter is a member of the Trust and Succession Planning and Business Law practice groups of O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong and Laing.  Licensed in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Florida and with a Masters of Law degree in taxation, Peter assists clients in all areas of tax and estate planning. 

James DeJong has been elected the next chair of the Carroll University Board of Trustees. He will serve as chairman for three years on the board, which oversees academic, financial, and operational decisions for the private Waukesha University.

James G. DeJong, a 1973 graduate of Carroll, is president of the Milwaukee law firm O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong and Laing and has served as a member of the University’s board since 2008.

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Attorney Jim DeJong was featured in an article appearing in the 2013 Summer Edition of the Marquette Lawyer Magazine.  Read the article about Jim here.