MILWAUKEE - The State Bar of Wisconsin recently honored its 50-year members throughout the state who passed their 50-year milestone in the legal profession in 2010. William Mulligan, a shareholder in the Milwaukee Office of Davis & Kuelthau s.c., was one of the honorees.
Mulligan has a long and distinguished career in the legal profession. In 1974 he was appointed by President Gerald Ford to serve as a United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin for a four year term. Additionally, he served as Special Assistant to the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois- appointed by the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and was also an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. His legal resume is too robust to outline in one article, but he also served as an Assistant Professor, Trial Practice and Civil Procedure, at Marquette University Law School, and was the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys President in the 1980's.
Currently, Mulligan represents businesses, officers, employees, professionals and governmental entities in complex civil, administrative and white collar criminal defense litigation and governmental enforcement matters. His practice includes environmental, antitrust, securities, energy, fraud, RICO, false claims, discrimination, professional and scientific misconduct. He represents clients in perpetuation of testimony, grand jury, John Doe, coroner’s, regulatory investigations, administrative and debarment proceedings, contested cases, judicial reviews, trials and appeals in state and federal courts.
He primarily represents clients in the construction, manufacturing, foundry, property development, investment, pharmaceutical, health care, medical education and research, and legal profession. He also represents counties, cities, villages, towns and publically owned treatment works and landfill disposal facilities and school districts.
To learn more about Mulligan, visit William Mulligan Biography.