On April 8, 2022, FAB Attorney Bryn I. Baker gave a presentation titled “Strategies to Combat Pretrial Client Surveillance” at the Wisconsin Association for Justice’s 2022 Spring Seminar in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

FAB attorneys Thomas C. Lenz, James P. End, and Bryn I. Baker recently settled a wrongful death civil rights lawsuit in the Eastern District of Wisconsin for $1.5 million against a Wisconsin state employee who worked at a Wisconsin long term care facility. The plaintiff in the case was the estate of an incompetent adult with a seizure disorder who drowned after he had been left alone in a bathtub.

FAB attorneys James P. End, Alexa C. Bradley, and Bryn I. Baker recently settled a 4th amendment excessive force claim against the City of Waukesha after several police officers clubbed, tased, and punched an unarmed intoxicated man.

On September 15, 2020, FAB Attorney Lawrence G. Albrecht presented “Updates on Current Election Law Issues” to a group of community activists and zoom attendees, along with Dr. Enrique Figueroa.

FAB attorney Alexa Bradley recently published an article for the Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog, which analyzes the recent United States Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which held that Title VII’s prohibition of workplace “sex” discrimination clearly encompasses discrimination based on one’s sexual orientation or transgender status because “homosexuality and transgender status are inextricably bound up with sex.” In her article, Attorney Bradley explains the background and history of Title VII and the landscape of Supreme Court case law interpreting “sex” against which the Bostock decision must be understood. She also details the growing circuit split in our Nation’s federal courts regarding the various interpretations of Title VII’s prohibition of “sex” discrimination that made the issue ripe for the Court’s consideration. Attorney Bradley goes on to analyze the majority opinion and the dissents, and wraps up her article with a few concluding thoughts about where we go from here. Attorney Bradley’s article can be found on the Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog by visiting the following link:

https://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2020/07/bostock-v-clayton-county-an-unexpected-victory/.

FAB attorney Lawrence G. Albrecht prepared a review of Restoring the Global Judiciary: Why the Supreme Court Should Rule in U.S. Foreign Affairs by Martin S. Flaherty for the April 2020 issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer.

FAB attorney Lawrence G. Albrecht prepared a review of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn for the February 2019 issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer.

FAB attorneys represented many tort and personal injury victims in 2017-20, including intersection automobile injury cases, rear-end car accident cases, dog bite cases, insurance bad faith claims, civil theft, and disability insurance matters. Settlement value is particularized to individual cases and depends on many factors. Some of the cases settled for hundreds of thousands of dollars or in excess of one million dollars, but FAB also represents injured people even when the value of the case is more modest.

FAB attorneys Lawrence G. Albrecht, James P. End, and Alexa C. Bradley settled a wrongful death federal court civil lawsuit for $6.75 million in 2019 for the death of an inmate at the Milwaukee County Jail. The settlement was the largest known prison death settlement ever in Wisconsin and was the subject of national and international news coverage.

FAB attorneys Lawrence G. Albrecht and James P. End represented an employee in an Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Title VII discrimination and retaliation case which resolved in 2019.

FAB attorneys James P. End and Bryn I. Baker resolved a Fourth Amendment unlawful detention and excessive force claim against a local law enforcement agency in 2019. Attorneys End and Baker also resolved a related state Open Records dispute simultaneously.

FAB attorneys Thomas C. Lenz, Christopher G. Meadows, and Bryn I. Baker successfully resolved an inmate excessive force claim against the State of Wisconsin in 2018.

FAB attorneys Lawrence G. Albrecht, James P. End, Thomas C. Lenz, and Alexa C. Bradley resolved a Fourth Amendment claim against a local law enforcement agency in 2018.

FAB attorneys Lawrence G. Albrecht, Thomas C. Lenz, and Alexa C. Bradley successfully resolved a prison sexual assault claim in 2018.

FAB attorneys Lawrence G. Albrecht, James P. End, Thomas C. Lenz, and Alexa C. Bradley successfully settled a prison lack of medical care and wrongful death case against State of Wisconsin prison officials in 2017.

FAB attorneys Lawrence G. Albrecht, James P. End, Thomas C. Lenz resolved a prison lack of medical care and wrongful death case against a jail in Southeastern Wisconsin in 2017.

On June 25, 2019, FAB Attorney Lawrence G. Albrecht presented a lecture “Are Sovereign Immunity Norms Mutable When Confronted by Ever Expanding Human Rights Theories of Liability: A Perspective from Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions” at Canterbury Christ Church University in England. The lecture is to be published in a forthcoming book by the University.

FAB attorneys Thomas C. Lenz and Christopher G. Meadows presented to a group of practitioners at a large Milwaukee-area clinic focused on providing quality health care and social services to underserved populations.  Their presentation covered issues arising in personal injury, worker's compensation, FMLA, and ADA matters.