Marsha Mansfield
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
E-mail: mmmansfield@wisc.edu
Telephone: 262-9142
Office: Room 1349, Law School
Education:
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison
J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School
Teaching Areas:
Civil Litigation
Consumer Law
Family Law
Biography
Marsha M. Mansfield is the Director of the Economic Justice Institute (EJI), the "civil wing" of the Law School's Frank J. Remington Center. The Institute includes three clinics: the Consumer Law Clinic, the Neighborhood Justice Project, and Family Court Assistance Project. Professor Mansfield directly supervises students in both the Family Court Assistance Project and the Neighborhood Law Project. Through her clinical work, she guides law students as they develop their lawyering skills through representation of and assistance to the underserved in Dane County while learning about the challenges faced by their clients and considering how they, as lawyers, might be most effective in their role as the lawyer. She also has taught Professional Responsibility and Pre-Trial Advocacy.
Professor Mansfield spent much of her legal career with Lawton & Cates, S.C., practicing in all aspects of plaintiff's civil litigation, including personal injury and consumer law, as well as in the area of family law. She has been recognized by Madison Magazine as one of the Best Lawyers in the area of Consumer Law. She handled multi-plaintiff consumer litigation throughout Wisconsin, including successful prosecution of a consumer action against a manufacturer of prefabricate housing (Leverance, et al. v. Tri State Homes, Inc.) and has handled lemon law cases against several automobile manufacturers. Currently, Mansfield is of counsel with Lawton & Cates.
Mansfield was President of the Dane County Bar Association in 2005 as well as Chair of the DCBA Delivery of Legal Services Committee for two years. She has spoken at State Bar CLE seminars on both litigation and family law related programs and trained attorneys for Legal Action's Volunteer Lawyer's Project. She was elected to the State Bar's Board of Governors in 2006 and is a member of the Legal Assistance Committee, Family Law and Litigation Sections, WATL, the ABA Litigation Section, and served three terms on the Office of Lawyer Regulation District 9 Committee. She has been on the Advisory Board of the Consumer Law Litigation Clinic at the U.W. Law School for several years.
