The attorneys at Neuberger, Wakeman, Lorenz, Griggs & Sweet provide a vast array of legal services to their clients. With full service offices in Watertown, Lake Mills, and Waterloo, Wisconsin, the firm can conveniently serve its clients’ needs. For more than 75 years, the law firm has provided legal services to the people of these communities, including expertise in real estate, business, estate planning and probate, divorce, custody and placement, criminal defense, and personal injury. Generally, the firm works in the Circuit Courts of Dodge, Jefferson, Waukesha, and Dane Counties as well as both Eastern and Western District Federal Courts.

The eight lawyer firm is staffed with highly skilled and knowledgeable legal assistants and paralegals with more than 100 years of combined experience.

Effective January 1, 2006, the law firm by way of merger became known as Neuberger, Wakeman, Lorenz, Griggs & Sweet. John Neupert and Thomas Wakeman of Lake Mills remain of-counsel to the firm.

The Watertown office dates back to 1938 when George E. Niemann established a law firm at the corner of First and Main Streets on the second floor of the Bank of Watertown building. He practiced law for 53 years, until his death in 1991. Paul L. Hibbard was associated with the firm from 1951 until his retirement in 1985. Arnold K. Schumann joined the firm upon his graduation from law school in 1966, and he was a partner until he was appointed to be a Jefferson County Circuit Judge in 1982. John M. Ullsvik joined the law firm as a partner in 1979 after stepping down as Jefferson County District Attorney. He left the firm in 1991 to become a Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge. They are both now retired.

The Lake Mills office can trace its roots back to 1922 when Robert P. Ferry opened a law office on West Lake Street in Lake Mills. In 1964, John A. Neupert joined the practice, also after serving as Jefferson County District Attorney. Thomas O. Wakeman joined the practice in 1974 after his graduation from law school. In 2002 the firm relocated to its current office in the newly remodeled former home of the Bank of Lake Mills, across from Commons Park in downtown Lake Mills. In addition to his Lake Mills practice, Wakeman also opened an office in Waterloo in 2003. The office is located at 144 West Madison Street, where he shared office space with Attorney Gus Harms until Harms’ death in 2010. Attorney Wakeman retired in 2010.

The recent merger of these two practices provides the firm with the ability to continue to provide excellent service and representation to all our clients while maintaining the personal service of a local firm committed to its community and the people it serves.