Ms. Slomowitz's Practice

Ms. Slomowitz concentrates her practice on appellate briefing and legal research, legal writing for the firm's business and individual clients. Her practice spans all of the firm's substantive practice areas, from transactional services to pre-litigation, litigation and post-litigation services.

Ms. Slomowitz has researched and applied federal and virtually all states' statutes, administrative regulations and judicial decisions to contracts, acquisitions, dealership issues, employment matters, cooperative disputes and corporate activities.

Ms. Slomowitz is routinely called upon by the firm's other attorneys to obtain, review and analyze statutes, regulations and case law, and to evaluate the enforceability of contracts, the legal requirements for a business transaction or the legal implications of a client's factual situation. Based on the results of her research, Ms. Slomowitz, in consultation with other firm attorneys, determines the most efficient way to obtain the best favorable legal results for her clients.

Ms. Slomowitz uses her legal research and writing skills in all of the firm's major civil litigation matters. She drafts and files dispositive legal motions and briefs, whether to obtain dismissals of cases improvidently brought against firm clients, or to obtain favorable judgments in cases brought by the firm's clients. Ms. Slomowitz, for example, was instrumental in obtaining a multi-million dollar jury verdict for a client in a federal lawsuit involving business theft and customer misappropriation.

Ms. Slomowitz has successfully participated in the prosecution of civil lawsuits involving family law, business opportunity theft, contractual interference, and distributor claims. She has also successfully defended businesses, employees and individuals in, among others, unfair competition, trade secret, employment discrimination, contract, minimum markup and private school litigation.

Ms. Slomowitz also researches, prepares the record and prepares legal briefs to appellate courts, including the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal, in the firm's specialized appellate practice. She has successfully obtained the reversal of several judgments adverse to firm clients and the affirmance of judgments favorable to other clients.

Ms. Slomowitz successfully participated in obtaining a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision that the trial court, in evaluating a motion for modification of child placement, need not grant each parent equal placement if the court determines that placement should be modified. Instead, the trial court is to maximize the amount of time a child spends with both parents within an overall placement schedule, taking into consideration the child's best interests, the statutory status quo presumption, and the relevant statutory factors.

In addition to her regular practice, Ms. Slomowitz has been a regular contributor to various legal publications. She currently writes a regular column for The Wisconsin Law Journal titled "Briefs for the Brief Writer." Her articles, which cover a wide range of legal subjects, include the following:

Ms. Slomowitz has also been a judge at various student moot court competitions at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Marquette University.

In 2008, Ms. Slomowitz was appointed a Senior Lawyer by the Center for International Legal Studies headquartered in Salzburg Austria. As a Senior Lawyer, she taught U.S. business law to management students at the Herzen Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Ms. Slomowitz's blog from her 2008 Russian trip is located at http://blog.foslaw.com/. Her four-part Wisconsin Law Journal series on her trip can be read by clicking the following links:

Primary Practice Areas

Legal Research
Legal Writing
Pre-litigation
Litigation
Appeals

Professional Summary

Education

University of Wisconsin, J.D. 1980
University of Wisconsin—Madison, B.A. 1977

Bar Admissions

Wisconsin
U.S. District Courts, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin
Pro Hac Vice in various state and federal courts

Biography

Ms. Slomowitz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the youngest of three children. While an undergraduate, she interned for State Representative Michael Elconin.

During law school, Ms. Slomowitz was a law clerk for the Madison, Wisconsin law firm of Wheeler, Van Sickle & Anderson. During her second and third years of law school, she was appointed a legal writing instructor, teaching legal research and writing to first year law students.

Upon graduating from law school, Ms. Slomowitz spent a year as law clerk for the Honorable Martha Bablitch, judge for the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. Immediately thereafter, she joined Fox, O'Neill & Shannon, S.C. as an associate, where she has practiced ever since. She became a shareholder in 1986.