Civil Rights

UPDATE: The Village of West Milwaukee and the family of Adam Trammell have come to a settlement in their federal civil rights lawsuit. The Village has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the Trammell family for the repeated tasing of their son before his death in May 2017.

GCW Lawyers helped Robin Anderson settle her lawsuit against Glendale police for wrongful arrest in December of 2017.

We congratulate GCW attorney, Dana Wachs, for being selected by Wisconsin Governor, Tony Evers, as a member of the Judicial Selection Advisory Committee!

GCW Attorney, Paul Kinne, filed a lawsuit on March 4, 2019 against UW Madison for allegedly looking the other way when a minor was sexually harassed while attending its PEOPLE program in 2018.

GCW's Mark Thomsen speaks at the NBA event "Team Up for Change" hosted by the Sacramento Kings who have teamed up with the Milwaukee Bucks to unite, inspire, and activate communities against social injustice.

GCW Attorney, Mark Thomsen, spoke at the Team Up for Change Summit in Sacramento on Wednesday to discuss how to ease tensions between police and citizens.

GCW's Robert Gingras has filed a lawsuit with the Dane County Circuit Court against a plastic surgeon with UW Health Transformations for medical negligence and sexual exploitation of a female patient from Wausau.

UPDATE: In an interview in TODAY'S TMJ4 News at 6pm, GCW Attorney Mark Thomsen continues to speak out against the city's response saying Mr. Brown was "treated less than human" by the Milwaukee police.

GCW is proud to announce that attorneys Bob Gingras and Mark Thomsen have been approved as members of the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates!