Wisconsin Legal Projects

Respected, driven, ethical, and high energy legal and business professional with strong focus on litigation, contracts and compliance issues. Critical management experience includes client development, developing core initiatives, and forecasting risk in major corporations. Strong legal research, analytical and problem solving skills with demonstrated adaptability in a multifaceted legal practice including delivering high value results in a Fortune 10 environment. Core competencies include: Tactical and strategic legal direction and support to clients which includes contract negotiation, drafting and review, business planning, and a passion for relationship management. Excellent legal research, writing, analytical and problem solving skills including legal training and compliance with regulatory requirements and corporate policies. Coordinates with in-house legal and business resources for team building with excellent verbal communication skills, coaching, and leadership.

Firm rated best ADR firm for Wisconsin and won an award for cultural innovation in dispute resolution from acquisition international magazine in 2016 and it was rated "Best of Brookfield" by Best Businesses in 2015. Attorney Maxwell C. Livingston was rated 10 best in Labor & Employment Law by American Institute of Legal Counsel and 40 Under 40 by American Society of Legal Advocates for 2016; he also won 10 Best by American Institute of Family Law Attorneys. He is licensed in Wisconsin in all state and federal courts, and in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, wherein he won a landmark decision in McCray v. Wielke.

Michael has extensive experience advising companies from start-ups to established publicly-traded companies . He has represented businesses in a wide array of fields IT consulting, software solutions, web design/ development, financial services, SaaS, data storage, and others. Areas of expertise include contract drafting and negotiation, terms of use, business structuring and funding, company and employee policies, general transactional issues as well as licensing and regulatory compliance. His prior experience before entering private practice includes negotiating sales contracts for a Fortune 500 healthcare company, as well as regulatory compliance contracts for a publicly traded dental manufacturer. Mr. Brennan firmly believes that every business deserves a lawyer that is both responsive and dependable, and he strives to provide that type of service to every client.

The Law Office of David Watson, LLC provides comprehensive and individualized estate-planning services for all stages and phases of life. I listen to your goals and priorities and offer a range of estate-planning services, including trusts, wills, living wills, durable powers of attorney, and other plans to meet your goals. And for convenience and transparency, many estate-planning services are provided at a flat rate.

Experience as lawyer in large, small and solo firm settings and as in-house General Counsel for a manufacturing business. Expertise in commercial contracts between businesses, business sale and purchase contracts, employment contracts, intellectual property licensing and work-for-hire agreements. Additional expertise in trademark application and prosecution, copyright registration, appeals work in areas of intellectual property and employment law, business formation and governance documents, state and federal employment matters under the FSLA, construction agreements, Lien law, LLC Start-ups, Operating Agreements, partnerships, S-Corp set ups, Nonprofit Corporations, NDAs, executive and employee contracts, independent contractor agreements, severance, and restrictive covenants agreements, and employment/wrongful termination disputes, franchising law, real estate transactions for business and personal property, Asset Purchase Agreements, personal and commercial leases, drafting wills, estate planning documents, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, marital property agreements, Promissory Note Agreements, Security Agreements, Personal Guarantees, and land contract sales and purchases; technology agreements, website policy agreements, privacy, copyright, and terms of use agreements, SaaS agreements, landlord/tenant law.