Maureen A. McGinnity
Partner
Maureen A. McGinnity has a business litigation practice, focusing on federal, state, and local tax litigation and resolution of complex contract and tax disputes. She has litigated valuation issues in the context of shareholder disputes and with respect to complex property tax matters, including the assessments of a landfill and golf courses. Additionally, she has litigated various sales and use and property tax exemptions, including manufacturing, waste treatment, recycling, and computer exemptions. She has extensive civil litigation experience and has tried many cases to verdict. Ms. McGinnity is the firm's Chief Diversity Partner, a role in which she is a catalyst for and leader in carrying out the firm's commitment to diversity. She is a member of the General Commercial Litigation and Tax & Employee Benefits Practices.Ms. McGinnity is an author and general editor of LexisNexis Wisconsin Practice Insights: Tax (Matthew Bender & Co., Inc., 2008), a featured author of Inside the Minds: Tax Litigation Best Practices (Aspatore, Inc., 2006), and is a regular contributing author of tax law updates for the Council on State Taxation (COST) conference materials and the State Bar of Wisconsin's Annual Survey of Wisconsin Law. She was selected for inclusion in the 2006 - 2009 Wisconsin Super Lawyers® lists for her tax litigation work. Ms. McGinnity was recognized in the 2008 and 2009 Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading private practice attorney for her litigation work. Ms. McGinnity is a past chair of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of Wisconsin, past-president of the Association for Women Lawyers, past president of the Milwaukee Young Lawyers Association, and is a member of the American Bar Association, State Bar of Wisconsin, and the Milwaukee Bar Association. Ms. McGinnity was appointed by the chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to serve as one of two State Bar representatives on the Supreme Court's Planning and Policy Advisory Committee, which developed a long-range strategic plan for the Wisconsin judiciary. Ms. McGinnity's bar admissions include the State of Wisconsin, U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First and Seventh Circuits, the U.S. Tax Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Recognition for Ms. McGinnity's legal work on behalf of indigent clients has included the State Bar of Wisconsin's Pro Bono Award and Legal Action of Wisconsin's "Beyond the Call" Award. She also was presented with the Donald O'Melia Award for Local Service by the Wisconsin Law Foundation. Ms. McGinnity has been profiled in American Lawyer magazine for her pro bono work and was named one of Milwaukee's "Forty Under Forty" leaders. McGinnity recently was recognized by the Wisconsin Law Journal as one of the top 10 women in the law and was featured in The Business Journal's 2004 "Leadership Roll Call" as a community leader in the legal profession. Among other charitable and community activities, Ms. McGinnity is a member of Milwaukee Women Inc., a group dedicated to promoting women in leadership positions; a member and past president of Professional Dimensions, a professional women's organization; and serves on the board of the Boys & Girls Club. Ms. McGinnity holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (1977) and a J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1982), where she served as a member of the editorial board and later as managing editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
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