Carrie M. Benedon

Carrie M. Benedon, an associate with the firm, graduated cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2005. She received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 2002, where she graduated with high honors.

Carrie practices in the area of civil litigation. Her litigation practice includes business law, real estate, intellectual property, and labor and employment. She has appeared before state and federal courts, the Department of Workforce Development, and arbitrators and hearing examiners with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission.

Carrie is the President of the Legal Association for Women, and through that role she created a mentoring program that pairs women attorneys with women law students at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Carrie is a member of the American, Wisconsin and Dane County Bar Associations, the Wisconsin School Attorneys Association, the James E. Doyle Chapter of the American Inns of Court, and Madison MAGNET. She also volunteers for the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Lawyer Hotline.

During law school, Carrie served as Director of the National Evans Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition, Vice President of the UW Law School Moot Court Board, and President of the Women Law Students Association. In addition, Carrie spent two years as Director of the Legal Information Center, a non-profit organization that provides free legal information to low-income individuals.

Upon graduation from law school, Carrie received the Bruce Beilfuss Memorial Award for outstanding service to the law school.

Carrie is an avid runner and skier, and she enjoys her role as a Big Sister to a fourteen-year-old girl through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County.

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