Lawrence G. Albrecht is a partner and concentrates his practice in the areas of human/civil rights and employment law. He received a B.A. in English and Political Science from Valparaiso University as a Pullman Foundation Scholar and his J.D. from Valparaiso University School of Law in 1973. He is admitted to practice in the states of Wisconsin and New York and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Seventh Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, the Northern District of Indiana and the District of Connecticut. He is a recipient of the 2007 ABA Rule of Law Award.

Mr. Albrecht was the former acting Executive Director for Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc., visiting Director of Clinical Programs and Asst. Prof. of Law, Valparaiso; ABA/CEELI Legal Specialist: Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bucharest University Faculty of Law, and a consulting lecturer at ten Balkan law schools; Adj. Instructor, Constitutional Law, South African Human Rights Law, U.W.M. He also served as an Assistant Attorney General of the State of New York.

Mr. Albrecht has represented thousands of individuals in judicial and administrative proceedings and has been lead counsel in federal court class actions/civil rights reported cases involving health care and financial benefits for poor children, a wide array of government programs/benefits, migrant workers’ rights, employment, mental health, housing and insurance discrimination, wrongful death, police misconduct and political asylum. See, e.g., N.B. v. Wausau Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., 475 F. Supp. 2d 800 (W.D. Wis., 2007)(involving sexual harassment of a student-athlete by her coach which has been widely cited in other opinions, law review articles and an education law treatise).

Mr. Albrecht is a human/civil rights lecturer (recently at the Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria, University of Trento, Italy, and University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa). He is an author or editor of numerous human/civil rights publications and annually publishes on the death penalty in The International Lawyer. See, e.g., Human Rights, 43 The Int. Lawyer 861 (2009).

Mr. Albrecht is a member of the Steering Committee of the ABA International Law Human Rights Committee, the Wisconsin Bar Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities (former member Professionalism Committee and, ex officio, Legal Assistance Committee), and the Wisconsin Employment Lawyers Association.