Robert Kasieta discusses his experience of excessive use of force cases and discusses the case of George Floyd. Atty. Bob Kasieta has been teaching at the law school as an adjunct professor since 2003. Bob obtained his law degree from Marquette Law School in 1983. He then clerked with Dane County Chief Judge Richard W. Bardwell. After that, he practiced from 1984 until 1997 with Bell, Metzner, Gierhart & Moore, SC, serving as the president of that firm for the last 2 1/2 years that he was there. In 1997, Bob formed Kasieta Legal Group, LLC to represent plaintiffs.

Bob is a Certified Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocates. He has an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell. Bob has been recognized by Madison Magazine as one of the 10 best lawyers in Dane County in the areas of personal injury and employment law. He has also been listed many times in the Outstanding Lawyers of America as one of Wisconsin’s top 100 lawyers. Bob has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” for many years. He won the largest verdict in Wisconsin in two of the last four years, according to the Wisconsin Law Journal.

Image courtesy of interviewee. July 15, 2020