President

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Phone:  (414) 276-2850

Fax: (414) 276-0731

Mr. Pettit regularly advises and represents business clients, including those with Collective Bargaining Agreements, in the application of employment laws to everyday problems they encounter, including the negotiation and administration of Collective Bargaining agreements.

Areas of Practice
Business & General Civil Litigation
Employment Law
Personal Injury Law

Bar Admissions
All Wisconsin Courts, both trial and appellate.

Federal Courts in the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Admitted on case by case basis in both Federal and State Courts in other jurisdictions.

Education
Juris Doctor: Marquette University Law School
B.A.: Washburn University 

Professional Associations
State Bar of Wisconsin - Litigation Section
Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers

Publications
Ask the Experts: How Much Leave Should I Offer My Employees; Small Business Times, October 1997

R. Pettit, Book review, (reviewing Henry L. Hecht, Effective Depositions, Wisconsin Lawyer, (1997)

Attorney-Client Privilege, Managing Attorney-Client Privilege and The Work Product Doctrine In Wisconsin, MBI, Inc., 2002

The Wisconsin Guide to Business Law, Volume VIII Author of chapter on Employment Contracts

Employers beware of Real ID law; Small Business Times, May 21, 2007

May an Employee Be Fired to Save Money?