Judge Hannah Dugan has all-star legal team, including 'LeBron James of lawyers' [View all]

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2025/04/29/see-the-legal-players-in-the-case-against-milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan/83327855007/

The federal obstruction case against Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan has drawn an all-star team of legal talent.

Leading Dugan's legal team is Steven Biskupic, the former U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Wisconsin from 2002 to 2009. Republican President George W. Bush selected Biskupic, who oversaw a series of public high-profile corruption and police misconduct cases, including the convictions of seven Milwaukee police officers in the beating of Frank Jude Jr. Biskupic was a career prosecutor before his term as U.S. attorney. He is now in private practice.

The most prominent member of the defense team is former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, a Cedarburg native. As solicitor general from 2005 to 2008, Clement argued more than 100 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Clement, a conservative who was appointed by former Republican President George W. Bush, currently represents the law firm WilmerHale, which is suing the Trump administration after it was targeted by an executive order. Clement has been dubbed by some "the LeBron James of lawyers."

Jason Luczak and Nicole Masnica, both partners with the prominent Milwaukee law firm Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown, are also on the defense team. Luczak leads the firm's criminal and white-collar defense team, and Masnica specializes in complex trial litigation and appeals, according to the firm's website.

Craig Mastantuono of Mastantuono Coffee & Thomas, another attorney for Dugan, has long been a go-to criminal defense attorney in Milwaukee. He is known for helping Baron Walker, a man sentenced to 60 years in prison for being part of a pair of bank robberies, win his release in 2018. His case was profiled in the 2016 documentary film "Milwaukee 53206."

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