Family Law

• Adoption

Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
  Madison County Circuit Court (Edwardsville, IL). Obtained summary judgment on behalf of the client, a global financial services firm, in a wrongful death asbestos case filed in Madison County, Illinois. The client had been sued as a successor to a company it had purchased through a series of transactions. Plaintiff alleged that he had been exposed to asbestos while working at the Xerox Building in Chicago in the early 1970s. Attorney Mark Malloy successfully argued that the plaintiff had not met its burden of establishing ownership by the predecessor corporation, which in fact was a trustee for the real owner of the building, or that successor liability flowed from the predecessor company to the client.
• Murder
  Policyholders nationwide are frustrated with the insurance industry in general. The recent murder of one of the nation’s largest healthcare insurers by a disgruntled policyholder is just one glaring example.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  S.C. is a Milwaukee Business & Corporate law firm with an exceptional history, which spans more than 175 years. Throughout the decades, the firm has earned a reputation for unparalleled, effective client service and for high-quality legal representation. This long-standing tradition of excellence, combined with the proven scholarship and business acumen of its lawyers, has enabled the firm to provide creative, aggressive, and efficient legal services to the broad spectrum of clients it serves.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Brian M. Cooley is an attorney in Meissner Tierney’s transactional practice group. Brian advises clients in the areas of business organization, business and corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate.
• Business Disputes
  Adam Tutaj, Tom Nichols, and Randy Brotherhood were asked to participate in a panel in Madison to help brief legislators regarding a major update to Wisconsin’s business entity statutes. As Chair or Co-Chair of the State Bar Business Law Section’s Limited Liability Company, Partnership and Corporation Committees, respectively, the three of them were in charge of updating Chapters 178 (General Partnerships), 179 (Limited Partnerships), 180 (Business Corporations), 181 (Nonstock Corporations) and 183 (Limited Liability Companies) to adapt the Model Limited Liability Company, General Partnership and Limited Partnership Acts of the Uniform Law Commission for adoption in Wisconsin. The pending legislative package will also update all five Chapters to integrate provisions relating to mergers, conversions and other “cross-species” transactions involving more than one type of entity, as well as procedural provisions for the Department of Financial Institutions. Here is a link
• Limited Liability Companies
• Intellectual Property
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Employment Litigation
• Non-compete Agreement
  Attorney Mark Malloy obtained summary judgment and dismissal with prejudice of claims that our client had breached a non-compete agreement. Affirmed on appeal.

Property Law

• Construction Litigation
  Milwaukee County Circuit Court. Attorney Mark Malloy successfully defended a construction claim levied against a real estate brokerage under a piercing the corporate veil theory, obtaining summary judgment on behalf of the clients, and affirmance of that decision at the Court of Appeals.
• Property Damage
  Climate change has and will continue to have adverse effects on the property and casualty insurance sector. Three and a half years ago, Wisconsin’s Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) began warning homeowners of the anticipated consequences of climate change when it launched the “Stronger Wisconsin” outreach campaign aimed at educating communities on ways to mitigate property damage resulting from more frequent catastrophic weather events.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Kenosha County Circuit Court. Mark Malloy successfully obtained a favorable jury verdict in a case filed against the client, a national grocery store operator, for personal injury arising out of negligent maintenance of the premises.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning