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MICHAEL T. FITZPATRICK is the managing partner in the Milwaukee firm of Fitzpatrick, Lough & Associates LLC, and focuses his practice on helping adults and children obtain Social Security benefits throughout Wisconsin. He graduated from St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin and earned his J.D. degree from Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. Mr. Fitzpatrick has lectured on Social Security topics for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Aurora Health Care and Independent First Living. He is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR), National Association of Disability Representatives (NADR) and the American Association for Justice (member, Social Security Disability Law Section). Mr. Fitzpatrick also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Easter Seals of Wisconsin. DALE E. HUGHES is a sole practitioner of the Dale E. Hughes Law Office, located in Portage, Wisconsin. His private practice focuses on personal injury, workers' compensation, Social Security disability and employment law representing applicants. Mr. Hughes earned his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School and his master's degree from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He is an adjunct faculty member teaching undergraduate and graduate law at Concordia University in Madison and at Upper Iowa University in Madison. Mr. Hughes also lectures at the University of Wisconsin School for Workers' Compensation Institute and for a variety of groups statewide. His professional memberships include the Wisconsin Association for Justice, the State Bar of Wisconsin and the Christian Legal Society. JACK LONGERT is in private practice with a primary concentration in advocating for disabled and low-income individuals seeking government benefits, as well as home foreclosure defense. He was executive director of the Wisconsin Pooled and Community Trust organization (WisPACT, Inc.). Mr. Longert earned his B.A. and B.S. degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his J.D. degree from the University of Illinois College of Law. He practiced for more than 20 years in various legal aid and legal services programs in Wisconsin and North Dakota, and also served as an assistant clinical professor at the U.W. Madison Law School. Mr. Longert's practice included the areas of guardianship and protective placement while serving as a staff guardian ad litem and civil commitment defense counsel for the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee and working with law students to represent patients at the Mendota Mental Health Institute. He has volunteered to author the chapter in the Wisconsin Attorneys Desk Reference on Mental Health Commitments. Mr. Longert also managed the operations of the Men's Drop In Shelter and related facilities in Madison. WILLIAM E. PARSONS is a shareholder at Hawks Quindel, S.C., where his practice focuses on labor and employment matters, including class and collective action wage and hour litigation, short and long-term disability disputes, employee benefits law, labor litigation, employment discrimination litigation, employment contract disputes and severance negotiations. He has represented clients in cases before various state administrative agencies, Wisconsin circuit courts, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western districts of Wisconsin. Mr. Parsons earned his undergraduate degree from Marquette University and his J.D. degree, with honors, from the University of Wisconsin Law School. During law school, he was an editorial board member of The Wisconsin Law Review and a board member of the University of Wisconsin Law School Moot Court Board. Mr. Parsons has presented on developing issues in Wisconsin's workers' compensation law, wage and hour law, and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University Law Schools. ISRAEL RAMON is a shareholder in the Milwaukee/Madison law firm of Hawks Quindel, S.C., where his primary areas of practice include workers' compensation and Social Security disability. He is admitted to practice before the Wisconsin courts and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin. Mr. Ramon earned his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois and his J.D. degree from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America's Consumer Guide. Mr. Ramon lectures frequently on workers' compensation law and has chaired the State Bar of Wisconsin's Worker's Compensation Update seminar. He is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Association of Worker's Compensation Attorneys, the Milwaukee Bar Association, the Wisconsin Employment Lawyers Association and the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives. Mr. Ramon is secretary of the Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers Association and on the Board of Voces de la Frontera, Action. KRYSTA R. WALSH is an attorney with the law firm of Stafford & Neal, S.C., where her areas of practice included Social Security disability and workers' compensation law. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin and earned her J.D. degree from Valparaiso University School of Law, where she received the Charles L. Vaughan Award, presented to the best student litigator, as voted on by the professors. Ms. Walsh recently participated as a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin's School for Workers and served as a judge for the Wisconsin High School Mock Trial Program.
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