John Walsh

John Walsh represents injured people.  He has over  a 95% success rate handling injury cases for clients. 

Mr. Walsh  primarily handles cases involving serious injuries,  including fractures, nerve damage, burns, injuries to children and elderly, and cases of wrongful death. (Mr. Walsh does NOT  handle medical malpractice cases).

Mr. Walsh is a former president of the State Bar of Wisconsin. At the time of his election, he was the youngest president in State Bar history.

Mr. Walsh has chaired the Veterans Memorial Committee for the Post 245 of the American Legion in Cross Plains. On Veterans Day, 2010, the Memorial was dedicated to commemorate the service of area veterans in all five branches of our Armed Forces.

Mr. Walsh's injury practice includes all forms of motor vehicle accidents, commercial trucking cases and motorcycle accidents.   Mr. Walsh  originally trained  as an insurance defense attorney, but for the past 25 years has focused almost exclusively on representing the injured.

Mr. Walsh has particular experience in commercial trucking accidents. Mr. Walsh has appeared as counsel for both plaintiffs and defense in numerous cases involving death or serious injury from commercial trucking accidents.

Mr. Walsh has acted as Wisconsin trial counsel in intellectual property cases and represented Taylor Made, Wonder Bread, Cardinal Glass and the ownerse of the copyrights to the Charles Schultz "Peanuts" characters.

Mr. Walsh is also a part-time faculty member at the University of Wisconsin School of Business. He is the principal author of two studies of "Wisconsin Injury Jury Verdicts" published by the State Bar of Wisconsin and an original contributing author to "The Law on Damages" in Wisconsin. Mr. Walsh is  the leaders of the firm's Personal Injury Practice Group.

As a former President, Mr. Walsh has served on numerous committees of the State Bar and the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Mr. Walsh is a past Chairman of the Board of the State Bar and a former member of the board of directors of the State Bar's Litigation Section, and previously chaired the State Bar's Legislative Committee. He has been regularly selected by his peers to be included in the Milwaukee Magazine and the Madison Magazine Top Lawyer features, as well as being listed in every edition of  The Best Lawyers In America© since 2002.

Mr. Walsh has assisted both Republican and Democratic Governors in screening judicial candidates, and served on the Governor's Task Force on the Creation of a Business Court.

Mr. Walsh is presently on the board of directors of the Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund and the Wisconsin Health Care Liability Plan.

He is a former board member of the Center for Public Presentation, the Wisconsin Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company, the Wisconsin Judicial Commission, the Board of Attorneys Professional Responsibility, and a member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court's Policy, Planning, and Procedures Committee.

Mr. Walsh has held numerous offices in the State Bar of Wisconsin, and is a member of the American Association for Justice, Litigation Section of the State Bar, Wisconsin Defense Counsel, Wisconsin Association for Justice, St. Thomas More Society, Dane County Bar, and ABA Litigation Section.