Martindale Hubbell Rating
AV
Cheryl A. Gemignani
Career Details
| General: |
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| Education: |
• Bachelor of Arts degree - International Business and Business Administration, Carthage College - Kenosha, WI 1981 • Doctor of Jurisprudence degree, Marquette University Law School 1984 |
| Employment: |
• Federer, Grote, Rohde, Neuses and Dales, February 1984 - 1986 • Phillips & Davis, March 1986 - 1990 • Law Offices of Charles I. Phillips, 1990 - 1993 • Phillips & Gemignani, 1994 - present • Instructor - Domestic Relations American Institute for Paralegal Studies, Inc. Mount Mary and Alverno College Locations 1992 - 1993 • Instructor - Marquette University Law School -"One of the things that you don't learn in law school" - January 1987 • Volunteer - The Women's Center, Inc. Advocacy Program to Sister House |
| Memberships: | American
Bar Association - Member Waukesha
County Bar Association Member Wisconsin Legislative Council Special Committee on Guardians ad Litem in Actions Affecting the Family 2000 National Italian American Bar Association Wisconsin
Chapter of the Justinian Society of Lawyers Leander Foley Matrimonial Inns of Court Prevention
and Protection of Abused Children YMCA City
of Waukesha • Police and Fire Commission |
| Formal Presentations: |
• State Bar of Wisconsin, GAL Training 2001 - Advanced, May 17, 2001 Pewaukee, Wisconsin, Third Party Issues - Visitation rights of grandparents, great-grandparents, step-parents, and/or other persons with a parent/child relationship (767.245), Visitations by grand or step-parent when one or more parents are deceased (881.55), Visitation or placement in other states. • State Bar of Wisconsin, 19th Annual Family Law Workshop August 17-29, 2000 Door County, Wisconsin "Annual Case Law Update and Commentary". • State Bar of Wisconsin 15th Annual Family Law Workshop August 8-10, 1996 Door Country Wisconsin, "Selected Tips on Identifying and Addressing AODA Issues in Custody and Placement Cases". • State Bar of Wisconsin 14th Annual Family Law Workshop Sugust 10 - 12, 1995 Door County, Wisconsin "Hot Tips from the Experts and How to CYA as a Guardian ad Litem". • State Bar of Wisconsin Midwinter Convention January27, 1995 Middleton, Wisconsin "The Changing Views on Placement of Children with a focus on Equal Placement and Parental Alienation." |
| Awards: |
• Outstanding Lawyers of America • Who's Who in American Law, Marquis Who's Who • State Bar of Wisconsin Local Bar Grant Competition Award for Videotape explaining how the victim/witness program aids people in dealing with crime's after effects. |
| Articles Written: |
• Practice Pointer: Identifying and Addressing Alcohol and other Drug Abuse issues in custody and physical placement litigation, Wisconsin Journal of Family Law Volume 17, No.3 July, 1997 • Practice Guidelines for Guardian ad Litems in Family Court; published by Family Law Section State Bar of Wisconsin. • Fee Arbitration from a Lawyer's point of View, Waukesha County Bar Association, Newsletter, Presidents Message January 1994 • Waukesha County Family Court Resources Booklet; published with a grant from the State Bar of Wisconsin
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