University of Wisconsin Law School clinical professor Marsha M. Mansfield is the new president-elect of the Dane County Bar Association.  Mansfield will take office in the summer of 2005.

At the Law School's Consumer Law Litigation Clinic and Neighborhood Law Project (combined as the Economic Justice Institute), Mansfield teaches and supervises law students in all aspects of skills development through the representation of the under-served in the areas of consumer law, landlord tenant law, wage claims, and a variety of other areas impacting the poor in Dane County.

A 1984 graduate of the UW Law School, Mansfield has spent most of her legal career with Lawton & Cates, S.C., practicing in all aspects of plaintiffs? civil litigation, including personal injury and consumer law, as well as in the area of family law. She has been recognized by Madison Magazine as one of the Best Lawyers in the area of Consumer Law. Currently, she is Of Counsel with Lawton & Cates.

Mansfield has been the Chair of the DCBA Delivery of Legal Services Committee for the past two years, and has participated as a member of that committee, as well as the Law for Public Committee, for many years. She has spoken at State Bar CLE seminars on both litigation and family-law related programs. She is a member of the State Bar's Family Law and Litigation Sections, WATL, and the ABA Litigation Section.  She is also serving her third term on the Office of Lawyer Regulation District 9 Committee.

Submitted by on May 21, 2004

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