Lisa C. Goldman

Lisa C. Goldman provides legal services to clients in a number of fields, such as criminal defense, civil litigation, and election recounts. She also has experience litigating issues pertaining to health insurance and pension benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Lisa has a commanding presence, as seen by her successful track record in both trials and appeals. She has been successful in getting her clients off on all criminal charges, from felonies to misdemeanors to traffic violations. She won a verdict in civil court that exceeded $400,000. She has also settled many personal injury matters, some for more than a million dollars. She successfully used a recount method to overturn the results of a Wisconsin election in the state's northern region. In a first for Wisconsin, she successfully represented the Democratic Party in circuit court to get voting hours extended at a polling place that had been temporarily closed. She assisted Senator Clinton's campaign for president. At the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, she was appointed to serve on the Rules Committee. For six years, Lisa was an active member of the State Bar of Wisconsin's Professional Ethics Committee. She is also frequently appointed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to act as a referee in attorney discipline matters. She also belongs to the American Bar Association, the Dane County Bar Association, the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Inns of Court. Lisa interned for Representative Spencer Coggs of the Wisconsin State Assembly during her college years at the University of Wisconsin, and she also spent a summer working for the United Nations. Later, she was a reporter for Al-Fajr based out of East Jerusalem, Israel. She joined the Peace Corps after completing her degree in political science, and she worked as an Agricultural Extension Officer and Small Business Development Officer in Lesotho, Africa. Lisa clerked at the Wisconsin Department of Justice and was a student attorney in the Legal Defense Program, a semi-finalist in the Heffernan Oral Advocacy Competition, a quarter-finalist in the Rendigs National Products Liability Moot Court Competition, and a new mom all while attending law school. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Lisa C. Goldman included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Super Lawyer in Civil Rights Ethics Committee and Appointed Referee by Wisconsin Supreme Court in Lawyer Discipline Cases Other Sources of Feedback About Lisa C. Goldman Included on the 2025Wisconsin Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2024 Wisconsin Super Lawyers list 2023 Wisconsin Super Lawyers list 2007 Wisconsin Super Lawyers list

• Attorney

• Wisconsin Department of Justice, Contracts, Commercial, Property Unit, Law Clerk, 1995 - 1996
• Westlaw, Student Representative, 1995 - 1997
• Al-Fajr, Reporter, 1989
• United Nations, Summer Intern, 1988
• Wisconsin State Assembly, Representative Spencer Coggs, Legislative Intern, 1988
• Languages
• Sesotho
• Hebrew

• Ethics Presentation, State Bar Annual Conference, 2006 - 2008
• NBI Ethics Presentation, 2008

• Kenseth v. Dean Health Plan, Inc., 610 F.3d 452 (7th Cir. 2010)
• Kenseth v. Dean Health Plan, Inc., Case No. 11-1560 (7th Cir. 2013) (Kenseth II)
• Greene v. Hahn, 2004 WI App 214 (Ct. App. 2004)
• In re John Doe Proceeding, 2003 WI 30, 660 N.W.2d 260 (2003)
• Keller v. Patterson, 2012 WI App 78, 343 Wis.2d 569, 819 N.W.2d 841
• Haferman v. Hebenstreit, 258 Wis. 2d 984, 654 N.W.2d 95 (Ct. App. 2002)
• State v. Worden, 238 Wis. 2d 444, 617 N.W.2d 906 (Ct. App. 2000)

• Representing Antiwar Protesters
• Peace Corps, Volunteer, Small Business Development and Agricultural Extension Officer, Lesotho, Africa, 1991 - 1993

• Wisconsin, 1997
• U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin, 1997
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2008
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 2008

• Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• State Bar of Wisconsin
• Dane County Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Wisconsin Association for Justice
• Wisconsin State Bar Ethics Committee