Dudley Godfrey and Jerry Kahn started practice together in 1957 with a simple idea: think like a business person and judge yo ... ur success by the success of your clients. Dudley and Jerry's partnership has grown into today's Godfrey & Kahn, a team of more than 160 attorneys in six offices: Milwaukee, Madison, Appleton, Green Bay and Waukesha, Wisconsin; and Washington, DC. Business Practice Areas include: Banking & Financial Institutions, Business Finance & Restructuring, Commercial Lending, Corporate Governance, ESOPs, Environment & Energy Strategies, Estate Planning, Estate & Trust Administration, General Corporate, Health Care, Indian Nations, Intellectual Property, Investment Management, Labor, Employment & Immigration, Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Political Law, Private Equity, Public Finance, Real Estate, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, Securities, Tax & Employee Benefits and Venture Capital. Litigation Practice Areas include: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust, Appellate, Contract/Commercial, Distribution, Franchise & Dealership, ERISA Litigation, Financial Services, Insurance & Reinsurance, Intellectual Property Litigation, International, Labor & Employment Litigation, Media & First Amendment, Products Liability and Torts, Real Estate and Construction, Securities and Corporate Governance, Trusts, Wills and Estates, Unfair Competition and Trade Secrets and White Collar Defense and Investigations. read more