Strang, Dean A.

Lawyer Overview

Dean Strang defends people accused of crimes in state and federal courts. He also has a broad appellate practice. Hurley, Burish & Stanton allows him to continue that practice with a wonderful group of lawyers. The firm’s integration of sophisticated practice in business and individual services, civil lawsuits, mediation, and the full range of criminal defense makes a rare firm in Wisconsin.

Before joining the firm, Dean was the first Federal Defender in Wisconsin. He established and supervised offices in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Madison. Prior to that experience as a public defender in federal court, Dean practiced for 15 years in Milwaukee. For most of that time, he defended men and women in criminal cases.

In addition to his state and federal criminal trial work, Dean has offered oral argument in more than 20 appeals, including in the United States Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and three other federal circuits. He has briefed many more cases on appeal in both state and federal courts. In his second appearance in the United States Supreme Court, Dean was co-counsel and co-author of the respondent’s brief in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), the landmark decision that declared unconstitutional mandatory federal sentencing guidelines.

Dean also has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School for more than five years. He has authored three law review articles and several shorter published articles. Dean was one of the founders of the Wisconsin Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 1994, and for well over a decade actively has opposed reinstatement of capital punishment in Wisconsin. In 2004, he was elected to the American Law Institute.

Areas of Practice

• Criminal Defense

Representative Cases

• United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005)
• United States v. Lemons, 302 F.3d 769 (7th Cir. 2002)
• State v. Borrell, 167 Wis. 2d 749, 482 N.W.2d 883 (1992)
• United States v. D.F., 63 F.3d 671 (7th Cir. 1995)
• United States v. Marlatt, 24 F.3d 1005 (7th Cir. 1994)
• South Central United Food & Commercial Workers Unions v. C & G Markets, Inc., 836 F.2d 221 (5th Cir. 1988)

West Practice Categories

Criminal Law

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin
• U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Iowa
• U.S. District Court District of Arizona
• U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1987
• U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims
• U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Law Institute, 2004 - Present
• Marquette University Law School, 2002 - 2006 (Adjunct Professor of Law)
• Seventh Circuit Bar Association, 2000 - 2007 (Board of Governors)
• Milwaukee Bar Association, 2004 - 2005 (Judicial Selection Committee)
• Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association, 2005 - 2006 (Vice President)
• Seventh Circuit Bar Association, 1996 - 2000 (Wisconsin Criminal Law Chair)
• Local Rules Advisory Committee (E.D. Wis.), 1998 - 2005
• Wisconsin State Bar, Criminal Law Section, 2005 - Present (Board of Directors)
• Wisconsin State Bar, Criminal Law Section, 1994 - 1998 (Death Penalty Liaison)
• Wisconsin AIDS Fund, 1998 - 2002 (Board of Directors)
• Wisconsin Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Inc., 1996 - 1998 (Co-founder)
• WCADP Fund, Inc., 2000 - 2001 (Director and Officer)
• Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, Inc. (W.A.V.E.), 1995 - 2000 (Board of Directors)
• Sinai-Samaritan Hospital, Positive Health Clinic, 1995 - 1996 (Capital Campaign Committee)
• Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 1989 - Present
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 1988 - Present

Honors and Awards

• Super Lawyer - Super Lawyers and Rising Stars®/Milwaukee Magazine, 2006 - 2008
• Hon. Robert W. Warren Public Service Award, 2005
• Legal Eagle Award, Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precincts Organization, 2005
• William M. Coffey Defender Award, 2004

Classes and Seminars

• Federal Crimes & Federal Criminal Procedure, Marquette University Law School, 2002 - 2005
• Law, Humanities & Social Sciences, Law, Humanities & Social Sciences, 2008
• Constitutional Law, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1997
• National Criminal Defense College, Macon, Georgia, 1999 - Present
• Wisconsin Public Defender, Trial Advocacy Institute, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 1999 - Present

Past Employment Positions

• Federal Defender Services of Wisconsin, Inc., Federal Defender and Executive Director, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, 2000 - 2005
• Fitzgerald & Strang, S.C., Shareholder, 1997 - 2000
• Shellow, Shellow & Glynn, S.C., Partner, 1993 - 1997
• Shellow, Shellow & Glynn, S.C., Associate, 1988 - 1993
• United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Assistant United States Attorney, 1987 - 1988
• Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach, S.C., Associate, 1985 - 1987

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1985
  J.D.
• Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982
  A.B.
  Honors: cum laude
  Honors: High Distinction in Major

Offers Free Initial Consultation

Accepts Credit Cards

Published Works

• The Rhetoric of Death, 1998 Wis. L. Rev. 841, 1998
• Felons, Guns, and the Limits of Federal Power, 39 J. Marshall L. Rev. 385, 2006
• Age Discrimination in the Modern Reduction in Force, 69 Marq. L. Rev. 331, 1986

Address

33 East Main Street
Suite 400
Madison, WI 53703-3095

Phones

(608) 257-0945

Faxes

(608) 257-5764

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