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Mike Crooks is a shareholder with the Milwaukee firm of Peterson, Johnson & Murray, S.C., where he runs the Madison office. His main areas of practice are commercial litigation, legal malpractice, medical malpractice, accounting malpractice, insurance defense and coverage issues, bad faith litigation, products liability work, premises liability, defamation suits, breach of contract, personal injury defense and third-party recovery. He also spends about 35% of his time mediating cases. Mike received his B.A. degree, cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin. Since law school, he has lectured for the State Bar's "Building Your Practice" series, for the Wisconsin Judicial College, for the Civil Trial Counsel of Wisconsin on litigation issues and municipal immunity, for the Wisconsin Law School on mediation, discovery practices, and various other litigation related topics for many other groups. In 2011, he taught Pre-Trial Practice for the University of Wisconsin Law School. He became a Board Certified Trial Lawyer in 2004. In 2005-2006, he served as President of the Civil Trial Counsel of Wisconsin, and was a long time member of the Board of Directors for CTCW. Additionally, he was formerly the Treasurer of the James E. Doyle Inn of Courts. He served as a Special Investigator for the Office of Lawyer Regulation. He was listed in the 2006-2016 Super Lawyers. He was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocacy (ABOTA) in 2007 and became Treasurer in 2015. In 2016, he was voted President of ABOTA. He was named to the Best Lawyers in America in 2007-2016, and in 2016 was named defense lawyer of the year. In 2008, he was appointed by Judge John Markson as a Court Commissioner. In 2009-2016, he was named to the Super Lawyers Top 50 in Wisconsin, and Top 25 in Dane County. He is admitted to practice in the State Courts of Wisconsin, Federal Courts of Wisconsin, and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell.

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