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I am a shareholder of Schott, Bublitz & Engel, s.c. My practice areas include business law, real estate law, estate planning and probate.. I served as counsel for an array of clients such as:. Prior to entering private practice, I practiced in the tax department of a national accounting firm. I am a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin and the Waukesha County Bar Association participating in the Business, Real Estate and Estate Planning Sections.. I have served on the Board of Directors of several for-profit and non-profit organizations and I serve on the Board of Zoning Appeals for the City of Brookfield and the Loan Committee for the Waukesha County Economic Development Corporation.

I bring an accounting background to the practice of law, allowing me to counsel my clients regarding their legal needs with an eye toward tax planning.. I take great pride in building and maintaining strong client relationships, based on service and trust. Together, my father, Jay W. Winter, and I served the legal needs of Oregon and Madison-area families from one generation to the next. In 2013, Winter Law Office merged with The Law Center for Children & Families, forming The Law Center, S.C. As a result of the merger, the firm is able to serve more of its clients’ diverse legal needs, while continuing a tradition of long-term, personal client relationships.

I have always been in business for myself.  Since the late 1990s, I have started and run multiple businesses.  I attended Law School to capitalize on the lessons I learned while running my companies.. I understand the the issues, stress and challenges that come with running a business. I offer the unique legal perspective that can only come from having been a business owner and being personally responsible for bottom lines, employees, deadlines and potential liability.

Joseph J. Gumkowski practices in the areas of general business law, e-commerce, taxation, and intellectual property. His practice is concentrated in servicing select clients of the firm in the entertainment business.. Mr. Gumkowski is an active member of the Sports Car Club of America; the Sports Car Club of America, Western New York Region; the South Towns Motor Club; and the Central New York Ice Racing Association. Mr. Gumkowski earned second place in the 2002 New York State Road Racing Championship.

Nathan McMurray practices in HoganWillig’s Corporate and Business Law department. He brings with him extensive experience, previously working for Delaware North Companies, generating hundreds of millions in revenue through business development initiatives in the travel and entertainment venue industry. Mr. McMurray counsels clients with matters related to business contracts, new business proposals, entity formation, joint-venture agreements, franchise agreements, license agreements, supply agreements, lease agreements, dispute resolution, and merger and acquisition agreements.. Mr. McMurray received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California Hastings College of Law, and a Master of Laws in (LLM) Chinese Law from the Tsinghua Law School in Beijing.. Mr. McMurray also served as Grand Island Town Supervisor from January of 2015 to December of 2019, his accomplishments included achieving record budget surpluses and the town’s highest-ever credit rating. During his supervisory role, Grand Island secured multi-million-dollar infrastructure projects, including community solar projects, rehabilitation of abandoned sites, broadband infrastructure, and trail access initiatives. These projects were achieved through aggressive bidding strategies resulting in obtaining millions in State and Federal grants while attracting major development projects, including an Amazon logistics hub.. Mr. McMurray also has deep experience working internationally as Foreign Legal Counsel working for Barun Law, Yulchon Attorneys in Seoul, Korea, and for Allen & Overy, LLP in Beijing, China. He was also Senior Counsel for Samsung Electronics in Seoul, Korea. His experience overseas includes advising U.S. businesses on investment projects and cross-border disputes in Asia, as well as advising U.S. companies on market strategy, acquisitions, and other matters. He speaks Korean and Mandarin.

Sarah J. Delaney is a long-time member of Goldberg Segalla's Global Insurance Services team. Her practice concentration is on insurance coverage analysis and litigation, professional liability, and appellate practice. Sarah's coverage experience covers a very broad range, including life, health and disability; bad faith; personal and advertising injury; intentional torts; pollution claims; aviation and fraud. She handles all aspects of insurance litigation and provides complex coverage analysis. Sarah also assists large domestic and multi-national companies in assessing insurance needs and implementing risk management programs.. Sarah graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo and was a governmental law center fellow and publications editor of the Human Rights Law Review while in law school. She has lectured and presented on a number of topics relating to insurance coverage, including social media, insurance coverage for the trucking industry, insurance coverage for construction operations, and comparative analysis of insurance coverage issues in the Northeast states. Sarah is editor of CaseWatch: Insurance, Goldberg Segalla's monthly insurance coverage newsletter, as well as publisher of the firm's Life, Health, Disability, and ERISA Quarterly newsletter and a regular contributor to the firm's Legal Update. She is also an editor of the DRI Life, Health, Disability, and ERISA Committee compendium The Law of Life Insurance: Key Issues in All 50 States, and the co-author of "Mergers and Acquisitions Insurance," New Appleman on Insurance Law, Library Edition (2011).

Michael T. Glascott, a partner in the Global Insurance Services Practice Group and leader of the GIS New York team, focuses his practice on complex insurance coverage, bad faith, commercial litigation, tort, and New York Labor Law litigation. Mike counsels and represents insurers in courts throughout New York and other northeastern states.. Mike gained extensive trial experience as an assistant district attorney for the County of Erie, where he prosecuted to verdict a variety of criminal matters, including homicides. He has also successfully defended personal injury claims and represented clients in commercial litigation matters during his time with private firms in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Buffalo, New York.. Since 2003, Mike has been a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC), a membership which is granted by invitation only following an extensive peer-review selection process. The FDCC is an international organization that was founded in 1936, and is limited to 1,200 of the top defense attorneys in the country. Mike's high-profile participation in the organization — founded on the principles of knowledge, justice, and fellowship — includes his current appointment as secretary-treasurer, and previous leadership positions as senior director, director, chair of the Membership Development and Retention Committee, chair of the Insurance Coverage Section, chair of the Insurance Industry Committee, and member of the Admissions Committee. He also currently serves as chair of the Finance and Budget Committee, and will serve as the organization's president-elect from 2019 to 2020 and then as president from 2020 to 2021. In 2016, Mike received the Joseph R. Olshan Award in recognition of his outstanding dedication to the organization following his leadership within the FDCC Advance Committee. He also received the FDCC Connect Award in 2017 and the John Alan Appleman Award in 2012 for his service as chair of the FDCC's Insurance Coverage Section.. Highly regarded among his colleagues, Mike possesses an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell — the highest available rating — and has been regularly selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America in the category of Insurance Law as well as Business First's Who's Who in the Law for Insurance Coverage. He is also a Fellow in the American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel.

James W. Grable, Jr. focuses his practice on complex federal criminal and civil litigation, handling trial and appellate matters in federal and state courts. He has represented multi-national corporations in criminal investigations and civil disputes, and impoverished defendants in assigned criminal and civil matters.