Brett A. Eckstein - Brookfield, WI

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2003
    J.D.
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Honors: Dean’s List
    Honors: Moot Court
    Honors: Marquette Law Review

• Non Legal Education

  • Marquette University, 2000
    B.A.
    Honors: cum laude

Current Employment Position(s)

• Attorney

Past Positions

• Law Clerk, Chief Judge R. Thomas Cane, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, 2003-2004
• Law Clerk, Justice Louis B. Butler, Jr., Wisconsin Supreme Court, 2004-2005

Representative Cases

• $4.9 million class action settlement for overcharges for medical records. Location – Waukesha County.
• $2.9 million to motor vehicle passenger who suffered paraplegia in a highway motor vehicle collision. Location –Milwaukee County.
• $2.1 million to motor vehicle passenger vehicle passenger who suffered serious internal injuries. Location – Racine County.
• $2 million on a wrongful death case involving death by contraction of a contagion.
• $1.8 million to the Estate of a passenger in a motor vehicle who sustained fatal injuries. Location – Racine County.
• $1.65 million class action settlement for overcharges for medical records. Location – Marathon County.
• $1.1 million recovered for charities in a will contest. Location – Waukesha County.
• $995,000 to a driver who was hit by vehicle that was racing on a city street. Location – Ozaukee County.
• $984,000 to a passenger in a motor vehicle collision who suffered significant psychological injuries. Location – Racine County.
• $965,000 to a local business for a commercial dispute involving negligent website optimization. Location – Waukesha County.
• $831,847 for a driver who suffered compound lower leg fractures, resulting in an ankle fusion and resulting deformity. Location – Milwaukee County.
• $750,000 to a patient who suffered injury from contaminated stem cell injections. Location – Milwaukee County.
• $690,000 to the parents for the wrongful death of their adult child who died in a motor vehicle collision. Location – Milwaukee County.
• $600,000 to a passenger in a motor vehicle who aggravated a preexisting knee condition, resulting in multiple surgeries and permanent pain. Location – Milwaukee County.
• $531,676 to a victim of a motor vehicle crash, causing a permanent neck injury. Location – Milwaukee County.
• $550,000 for a grocery store patron who tripped over rippled mat caused by store employee. Location – Waukesha County.
• $500,000 to a driver who suffered fatal injuries in a highway motor vehicle crash. Location – Portage County.
• $400,000 stemming from landlord’s failure to maintain smoke detectors, resulting in death of a resident. Location – Milwaukee County.
• $400,000 to box truck driver who suffered injury in a rollover motor vehicle collision. Location – Dane County.

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin, 2003
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin

Other Affiliations

• Wisconsin Association for Justice