Gretchen Viney
Clinical Professor of Law
E-mail: ggviney@wisc.edu
Telephone: 262-8048
Office: Room 5224, Law School
Education:
University of Wyoming, B.A. with Highest Honors, 1974
University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D. with Honors, 1978
Teaching Areas:
Client Interviewing & Counseling
Real Estate Law
Skills Training
Biography
Gretchen Viney is a clinical professor and associate director of the Lawyering Skills Program (formerly General Practice). She shares responsibility for the Lawyering Skills Course, a second-semester 7-credit course that introduces students to law practice. Outside the LSC, Professor Viney also teaches Client Interviewing & Counseling, Real Estate Transactions, and Guardian ad Litem Practice.
Professor Viney continues to practice law on a part-time basis in Baraboo where she is a partner with her husband in the firm of Viney & Viney. She is recognized for her work and expertise as a guardian ad litem for children, elders, and the disabled. Her private practice also includes mediation, family law, terminations of parental rights and adoptions, and other general civil areas. Professor Viney's publications include "Children as Witnesses in Family Court," Wisconsin Journal of Family Law, Vol. 26, No. 3; "The Impact of Act 130 on Family Court Guardian ad Litem Practice," Wisconsin Journal of Family Law, Vol. 25, No. 2; "Guardianship: Chapter 880" in Guardian ad Litem Handbook; "Guardianship and Protective Placement" in Advising Older Clients and Their Families. She is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education seminars on the topic of guardian ad litem practice.
Professor Viney is a former Secretary of the State Bar of Wisconsin. She has been an active member of the Bar for more nearly thirty years, having served as secretary and also on numerous boards, committees, and divisions. She is also past-President of the Sauk County Bar Association.
Gretchen and her husband Joseph Viney (J.D., University of Wisconsin, 1977) have two children, Zachary (2-29-84) and Ian (2-9-87). She is a member and past-president of the Baraboo Rotary Club. She is active in the First Congregational United Church of Christ of Baraboo. In her spare time, Gretchen enjoys curling, reading, playing with her dog, watching football, sleeping, and eating.
