About

Tamara B. Packard is a Partner within the Madison, Wisconsin law office Cullen Weston Pines & Bach LLP. Ms. Packard has been training law due to the fact 1994, in general within the regions of litigation and appeals, emphasizing employment, labor, and civil rights regulation. She become named a Wisconsin Rising Star in Employment and Labor Law for 2006 and 2007, as introduced in Milwaukee Magazine. She also serves as an accessory professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Ms. Packard frequently represents humans with gender, incapacity, and sexual orientation discrimination claims, as well as claims below the salary and hours laws, the State and Federal Family Medical Leave Acts, and in other employment and civil rights disputes. Her litigation and appeals practice also encompass commercial disputes and serving as local recommend in complicated federal litigation. She is admitted to practice inside the country courts of Wisconsin and Michigan, the Federal District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, the Eastern District of Michigan, and earlier than the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She additionally regularly seems on behalf of customers on the Wisconsin Equal Rights Division, the Federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, and other administrative agencies. Ms. Packard currently serves at the Executive Committee of the James E. Doyle Chapter of the American Inns of Court as Program Chair. She is likewise active inside the Legal Association for Women, the National Employment Lawyers Association, and the Wisconsin Employment Lawyers Association. In a decision launched on June 5, 2008, Ms. Packard prevailed on behalf of Fair Wisconsin earlier than the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a case involving free speech, homosexual rights, allegations of defamation, and a frivolous lawsuit. Partner Lester Pines became co-suggest. Donohoo v. Action Wisconsin, 2008 WI fifty six. In 2007, Ms. Packard and Mr. Pines defended, in an Original Action before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Ethics Boards right to field Judge Annette Ziegler for her violations of the State Ethics Code. The Supreme Court declined Judge Zieglers request to take her case, and soon after Judge Ziegler admitted to the violations, agreed to pay a $five,000 forfeiture, and also paid the Boards lawyer costs. In 2003, Ms. Packard gained her first case in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, In re Bar Admission of Vanderperren, 2003 WI 37. The Supreme Court determined that the Board of Bar Examiners wrongfully denied her patron the privilege of practicing law in Wisconsin. In 2001, on behalf of Madison Teachers, Inc., Ms. Packard and Mr. Pines blanketed the teachers unions ability to barter home accomplice medical health insurance for college district personnel. This victory was accomplished inside the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in cooperation with legal professionals for the Madison Metropolitan School District. Pritchard v. MMSD and Madison Teachers, Inc., 2001 WI App sixty two. Ms. Packard is a past-President of the Board of Directors of Fair Wisconsin Education Fund. She keeps to serve at the Board. She also writes a ordinary column for Madison magazine Our Lives. She gives statistics on prison subjects of particular hobby to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered human beings. By the appointment of the Honorable Shelley J. Gaylord, Dane County Judge, Ms. Packard is a Dane County Supplemental Court Commissioner. This appointment allows Ms. Packard to officiate at marriage ceremonies for the duration of Wisconsin.

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Appeals & Appellate

Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals

Civil Rights

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law

Employment Law

Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination

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