Kathy L. Nusslock

Partner
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Overview

Kathy’s career spans more than three decades as a litigator. She has significant experience working with complex litigation matters ranging from employment discrimination and employment benefits disputes, to unfair trade practices. Kathy also is experienced in handling disputes involving intellectual property, restrictive covenant and other agreements, breach of contract and warranty claims. Her clients include individuals, small, mid-sized and large corporations, as well as government entities.

In the last decade there has been exceptional growth in trust and estate litigation. Disputes arise between family members and with institutional trustees or fiduciaries more frequently. She represents individual and corporate personal representatives and trustees in litigation over the interpretation of trust and estate documents, a decedent's distribution elections, allegations of breach of trust and other breaches of fiduciary duty, and intra-beneficiary dispute.

Experience

Membership & Involvement

  • Member: The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation (AFB); Eastern District of Wisconsin, Federal Rules Committee; Milwaukee Bar Association; Wisconsin Law Foundation Fellows; Lawyers for Libraries, 2013 – 2016; Marquette University Law School Advisory Board
  • Faculty Member: National Trial Advocacy College at the University of Virginia School of Law, 2009 - 2018
  • Member, Past President: Serjeants’ Inn
  • Board Member and Secretary: Milwaukee County Historical Society
  • Board Member and President: Dorothy Inbusch Foundation
  • Chair: UWM Graduate School Cabinet
  • President’s Council: Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association
  • Former Board Member, Next Act Theatre, 2003 – 2016

Honors

  • Martindale-Hubbell – AV Preeminent® Attorney, 2019 Women Leaders in Law
  • Notable Women in Law, BizTimes Media: 2022
  • Selected to The Best Lawyers in America® in Commercial Litigation: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • Selected to The Best Lawyers in America® in Litigation - Labor and Employment: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • Fellow, American Bar Foundation: 2017-2024
  • Fellow, Wisconsin Law Foundation: 2015-2024
  • Selected to the Wisconsin Super Lawyers list: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Best Lawyers® in America, Women in the Law: 2017
  • Martindale-Hubbell - Preeminent Women Lawyers: 2014
  • Women in the Law, Wisconsin Law Journal: 2013
  • Selected to the Top 25 Women Wisconsin Super Lawyers list: 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition: 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Super Lawyers Business Edition (formerly Corporate Counsel Edition): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
  • Brennan Award, National Trial Advocacy College, University of Virginia School of Law: 2010

Resources & Insights

In the Media

Speaking Engagements

Education

Marquette University Law School, J.D., magna cum laude

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, L.S.B.A.

Admissions

  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • Florida 
  • Wisconsin
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