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James D. Friedman

James D. Friedman

Partner
 
Quarles & Brady LLP
411 East Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 2040
Milwaukee, Wisconsin  53202-4497
(Milwaukee Co.)

Telephone: (414) 277-5735
Fax: (414) 978-8735
http://www.quarles.com



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Practice AreasFinancial Institutions Law(60%); Financial Institutions Litigation; Health Law(10%); Corporate(10%); Corporate Finance and Securities(10%); Mergers and Acquisitions(10%); Commercial Financial Services; Private Equity and Venture Capital; International Business Law; Financial Services Task Force
 
EducationUniversity of Notre Dame, J.D., 1972, Marquette University, A.B., 1969
 
Admitted1972, Wisconsin; 1973, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia; 1976, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1978, U.S. Supreme Court; 1989, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1996, Illinois; 1997, U.S. Tax Court
 
MembershipsState Bar of Wisconsin (President-Elect Candidate, 1997-1998; Member, 1996-2000 and Chair, 1999-2000, Board of Governors; Executive Committee, 1998-2000; Finance Committee, 1997-1998; Strategic Planning Task Force, 1997-1998; Director, 1985—, Secretary and Chair-Elect, 1988-1989, Chair, 1989-1990, International Practice Section; Member, Committee to Encourage Placement of Minority Lawyers, 1992-1999; Chair, 1996-1999); American Bar Association (Member: House of Delegates, 1980-1982; Banking Law Committee, Section of Business Law, 1985—); Quarles & Brady LLP Financial Institutions Practice Group (Chair); Financial Services Task Force (Chair).
 
BornDubuque, Iowa, 1947
 
BiographyOutstanding Senior, College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, 1969. Managing Editor, Notre Dame Law Review, 1971-1972. Alderman, 4th and 7th Districts, 1979-1983. President, Common Council, 1980-1982 and Member, Board of Ethics, 1996-1998 and Chair, 2000—, Chair, Blue Ribbon Visioning Committee, 1998-2000, Mequon, Wisconsin. Member, State of Wisconsin, Legislative Council Special Study Committee on the Regulation of Financial Institutions, 1986-1987. Member, State of Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions, Task Force on Financial Competitiveness 2005, 2000. Member and Vice Chair, State of Wisconsin, Supreme Court, Office of Lawyer Regulation, Preliminary Review Committee, 2000-2007. Member, Board of Visitors, Marquette University Center for the Study of Entrepreneurship, 1987-1995. Member, Board of Directors: Wisconsin Association of Manufacturers and Commerce, 2008—; Concours Motors, Inc., 1998—; Partners Advancing Values in Education, Inc., 1987—; Wisconsin Law Foundation, Inc., 1998—, President, 2007-2008; Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund, Inc., 1998-2008, President, 2006. Member Board of Directors, 1983— and President, 1984—, Weyenberg Public Library Foundation, Inc. Listed in The Best Lawyers In America® (Banking Law, 1995—); Who's Who in American Law; Who's Who in Finance and Business; Who's Who in the World; Who's Who in America; Who's Who in the Midwest; Wisconsin Law Journal, 2006 Wisconsin Leader in the Law; Law & Politics, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Wisconsin Super Lawyer. Fellow: Wisconsin Law Foundation (Life Fellow); American Bar Foundation.
 
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Federal Government Expands Its Prohibition against Recovery Act Lobbying to Apply to All Persons, Not Just Lobbyists
Steven A. Burk, James D. Friedman, Jeff Peelen, August 18, 2009
We issued an email alert in early April that detailed the restrictions the federal government had placed on federal lobbyists with respect to their communications with federal agencies in the context of the distribution of federal Recovery Act funds. The centerpiece of the White House's effort was...

Obama Plan Overhauls Financial Services Regulation
James D. Friedman, Spencer H. Larche, August 7, 2009
On June 17, 2009, President Obama released his proposal to restructure the U.S. financial regulatory system (the "Proposal"). The Proposal focuses on meeting five primary objectives: (1) promoting robust supervision and regulation of financial firms, (2) establishing comprehensive...

Treasury Issues Interim Final Rule On Executive Compensation Standards under TARP
James D. Friedman, Joseph D. Masterson, John P. Vail, Anneke A. Diem, July 9, 2009
On June 10th, 2009, the United States Department of the Treasury released an Interim Final Rule (the "Rule"), providing guidance to entities receiving financial assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program ("TARP") of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2009...



 

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