Lawyers in Madison, WI

Lots of people in this thread didn’t read the OP I guess. For those playing along at home the judgment is already won and they’re just trying to garnish now. Good luck, I think the Lawyer Referral system recommended is your best bet.

I’ve sued someone in small claims before and did it myself without a lawyer. Call the court house and have them help you get the right wage garnishment files (which can be downloaded and completed on your computer), and then you need to hire a process server to serve those papers to her and her job. The job of the person I sued didn’t comply, so then I took the job to court and the business had to pay me the same amount as the original judgment! It can be a really annoying and long process If the parties don’t comply, but keep going through with it and it will pay off!

Lawyers are a waste of money if you want to do the legwork you can do it with a few phone calls or letters to garnish her wages and taxes. Call the clerk and see if they’ll help. A lot of counties will assist in writing a garnishment wage assignment to the HR/personnel department. If not, you can get a copy of said judgment and send it in with a request to garnish. Good luck-hopefully she won’t run!

If it's a small claims judgement I would call (normally stop by but I imagine they don't do walk in with covid?) and ask the clerk to help you file for garnishment. They don't give legal advice but in my experience they are more than happy to tell you which forms to fill out and check that you did it right.

This document from the court system seems to spell the process out step by step. [https://www.wicourts.gov/formdisplay/SC-6070V\_instructions.pdf?formNumber=SC-6070V&formType=Instructions&formatId=2&language=en](https://www.wicourts.gov/formdisplay/SC-6070V_instructions.pdf?formNumber=SC-6070V&formType=Instructions&formatId=2&language=en)

Contact the State Bar of Wisconsin. They will give you a referral to a lawyer after talking with you about your issue and the first 30 minutes of your consultation costs around $20. You just have to let the lawyer know you were referred to them by the State Bar.

You may consider the UW neighborhood law clinic https://law.wisc.edu/eji/nlc/. They provide free legal advice, referrals, and sometimes even representation. Don’t know to what extent they would be able to help in your specific situation, but they at the very least point you in the right direction at no cost to you.

I have a friend who was able to do it without a lawyer. She downloaded the forms online and submitted them to the court. The garnishments started about 90 days later. The tricky part will be trying to keep up with them if they choose to bounce from job to job to keep ahead of the garnishments

The judgement is going to have to be pretty significant to justify the cost of doing this. There are so many motions involved depending how strongly she seeks to fight it, which amounts to a lot of billable hours.

none of y'all can google apparently https://pdf.countyofdane.com/court/SC-6070.pdf https://pdf.countyofdane.com/court/GARNISHMENT_PROCESS.pdf

What ever you do DON'T hire Steven Mays or the Mays law firm! I have hired 9 lawyers in my lifetime and the Mays law firm was by far and away the worst I have ever been treated! They are also completely incompitant

If it's criminal you want Steve Esinberg. Right on e wash and blair.

Mike Short. main street justice

Lots of great resources at norml.org

I had Tom Grieve when I had my possession of THC w/ intent (200-1000 g) after my apartment got raided and I got just two years probation and the possibility for expungement. He's representing me again now for my posession case from Winter Warmer, and I think he's doing a great job again; got me off my PO hold in time to keep my job and is talking the prosecutor down from the two felonies I was charged with to misdemeanors and probation. He's a cool guy too. http://grievelaw.com/

There's a youth (ages 16-29) lawyer drop-in 2-4 pm at Central Toronto Community Health Centre (168 bathurst st@queen)!