Firm Profile
We are excited to introduce our new firm - Hawks Quindel Ehlke & Perry which the shareholders in Shneidman, Hawks & Ehlke, S.C. and Perry, Shapiro, Quindel, Saks, Charlton, Sumara & Lerner, S.C. formed in July, 2005. The merger brings together fifteen highly experienced employment and union labor lawyers, as well as family law practitioners Amy Shapiro and Kathy Charlton, and one of the state's most dynamic worker's compensation practices led by Israel Ramon and Dan Schoshinski in Milwaukee, and Bruce Ehlke and Aaron Halstead in the firm's Madison office.
Labor practitioners Tim Hawks, Barbara Quindel, Bruce Ehlke, Richard Perry, Aaron Halstead, Jeff Sweetland, Richard Saks and Michele Sumara have more than a combined 150 years of legal experience representing labor union clients. Barbara Quindel, Thomas Nelson, Kathy Charlton, Jeff Sweetland, Richard Saks, Aaron Halstead and Michele Sumara have represented individual employment clients in state and federal courts at all levels. Lynn Novotnak, an experienced employment and civil rights lawyer, joins the firm as a shareholder and Walt Kelly adds his experience as "of counsel". Daniel Shneidman, Bob Lerner, Howard Myers, Vicki Schaut and John Bowers are "of counsel" to the firm.
Additionally, Amy Shapiro and Kathy Charlton bring to the new firm more than 45 years of general practice expertise. Amy and Kathy practice family law, including divorce, paternity, domestic violence, child support and child custody. Both are members of the Collaborative Family Law Council of Wisconsin, are trained as mediators and are highly respected and seasoned practitioners who look forward to serving clients with compassionate and skilled representation. Bob Lerner assists clients in criminal law matters. Vicki Schaut handles transactional matters including real estate.
Attorneys in the firm's labor practice represent over 70,000 Wisconsin employees who are members of unions including District Council 40, AFSCME, AFT-Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association, the Professional Firefighters of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Professional Firefighters Association, and affiliates of the ATU, Newspaper Guild-CWA, UNITE HERE!, PACE and IUOE. HQEP looks forward to continuing a long tradition of representing labor unions and their members in labor, employment, worker's compensation and general practice matters.
We invite you to click on the individual bios for our lawyers to learn more about them and their respective practices.