Meissner Tierney Fisher & Nichols S.C.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Business & Civil Trials
• Pollution & Other Environmental Matters
• Water Rights & Real Estate Disputes
• Contract Disputes
• Zoning & Land Use Law
• Insurance Coverage Issues
• Business & Securities Fraud
• Open Meetings & Public Records Laws
• Real Estate Transactions

EDUCATION

B.S. (with honors) University of Wisconsin, 1967; M.S. (Zoology) University of Wisconsin, 1969; J.D. (cum laude) University of Wisconsin, 1974.

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Order of the Coif; Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Eta Sigma; National Science Foundation Fellow, 1978.

JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS

Law Clerk to the Honorable Edward J. McManus, Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, 1974-76.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Bar Association; State Bar of Wisconsin (Past Chairman, Director and Program Chairman, Environmental Law Section); Milwaukee Bar Association; Iowa State Bar Association; Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers; Director, Corporate Practice Institute.

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

Milwaukee Audubon Society (President, 1980- 83; Board of Directors, 1977-84; Fund Drive Chairman, 1987); Vice President and Director, Society of Tympanuchus Cupido Pinnatus, Ltd.; Director, Wisconsin 4H Foundation, Inc., 1996-2000; President and Director, Whitefish Bay Library Fund, Inc.; Member, Citizens Environmental Assessment Committee to Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, 1978; Member, Environmental subcommittee of Citizens Advisory Council, Wisconsin Electric Power Company, 1985-86.