About
Heath Straka is a partner at Axley Brynelson, LLP and is the Immediate Past President of the Wisconsin Association of Justice (WAJ). WAJ is the nation-huge association for trial lawyers and has over 800 professional contributors. His exercise makes a speciality of non-public harm actions, general litigation regarding employment and production disputes and also complex litigation and class actions concerning product liability claims and salary and hour violations. Heath obtained his regulation degree from the UW Law School in 2000. He has giant litigation enjoy in the State and Federal Courts of Wisconsin and has practiced inside the successful decision of numerous Civil Rights and Personal Injury cases. He became these days appointed to be the Chair of the Dane County Civil Service Commission. In that position, Heath serves because the presiding lawyer concerning employment disputes with Dane County Civil servants.
Heath has efficaciously argued instances in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He is also lively inside the legal network, serving in all officer roles with WAJ.
Heath has been always voted via his peers to be each a Super Lawyer and the various Best Lawyers in America. He has additionally been diagnosed with the aid of the National Association of Distinguished Counsel and was provided the Top forty Under 40 Award through The National Trial Lawyers in 2012.
Heath is fluent in Spanish and has volunteered with the Dane County bar for non-English speaking criminal services. He additionally volunteers in the community. He is the Past-President of the Patriots Youth Hockey Association; is a beyond Board has membership with Madison Festivals, Inc. (which runs Taste of Madison, The Madison Marathon, and Rhythm & Booms); and coaches each teenagers hockey and soccer. Heath is married with three kids.
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- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Construction Law
- Construction Contracts, Construction Defects, Construction Liens, Construction Litigation
- Products Liability
- Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts
- Animal & Dog Law
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
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- Spanish: Spoken, Written
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Graduation year: 2000
