When a car accident, pedestrian accident, or wrongful death causes harm to you or someone you love, it can disrupt your entire life. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, a department within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 39.5 million people are injured around the globe every year. You should […]
GRGB Attorney Josh Gimbel and Family Dollar Beat City In Court Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown, LLP Partner Josh Gimbel obtained a highly successful outcome for the firm’s client, Family Dollar Stores of Wisconsin LLC, from the Wisconsin Court of Appeals District I. The Court of Appeals overturned a City of Milwaukee attempt to shutdown […]
The Court of Appeals sided with Mr. Harrell and determined that the Department of Corrections could not take more funds than ordered by the trial court judge. This decision along with the Ortiz decision (see below), where we represented another inmate pro bono, provides protections for prison inmates and does not allow the DOC to […]
In United States v. Lockett, 782 F.3d 349 (7th Cir. 2015), Kristen successfully argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals that Mr. Lockett’s prior convictions did not qualify under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) because the Government failed to provide any evidence that Mr. Lockett was subject to Illinois’ recidivist enhancement. Mr. Lockett was originally sentenced […]
Watch GRGB’s Nicole Masnica’s oral argument in the Supreme Court (State v. Ruffin) of Wisconsin.
Attorney Raymond M. Dall’Osto and his colleagues at Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown, LLP applaud the diligent and successful work done by the Wisconsin Innocence Project, which continued and built upon our efforts to obtain definitive new DNA testing. These efforts resulted in the exoneration and freeing of Daryl Holloway on October 6, 2016, after he served 23 years […]
In 2016, the Department of Corrections suddenly doubled the percentage it was withholding from Ortiz’s prison wages for the payment of restitution, even though this conflicted with the judgment of conviction. Ortiz fought the deduction in the prison and then the courts, and GRGB was asked to write a Response Brief on his behalf, pro […]
Attorneys Franklyn Gimbel and Steven McGaver successfully represented an officer of the Milwaukee County Deputy Sheriff’s Association in an action before the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission. Attorneys Gimbel and McGaver prevailed in the proceeding and the WERC concluded that Graber had been acting legally last year when he insisted the agency follow the union contract when selecting deputies to work mandatory […]
Due to the efforts of Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown, LLP partner Ray Dall’Osto, a circuit judge on April 29th vacated the decision of the City of Elkhorn Common Council, which last year denied a conditional use permit (CUP) for New Beginnings Association for Prevention of Family Violence to open a women’s and children’s shelter near […]
Bar exam does little to ensure attorney competence, say lawyers in diploma privilege state In his 60 years of law practice, Milwaukee attorney Franklyn M. Gimbel has known good and bad attorneys. And, according to him, whether they passed a bar exam, which in Wisconsin is not required for most in-state law school graduates, has […]