Bill is current in several areas of the law. He represents individuals and small businesses in a broad range of transactions including taxation, corporate, buying and selling of businesses, real estate, collaborative family law, and trusts and estates. He also has emphasis in representing mental health therapists. Bill had an extensive family law practice and represented lawyers, doctors, university professors, CPAs, and corporate executives in divorces as well as same sex and unmarried couples in litigation before he reduced his practice.
Bill has successfully tried a broad variety of cases to courts and to agencies, such as Wisconsin Circuit Courts, Tax Appeals Commission of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing, Federal District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, Madison Equal Opportunities Commission and State Equal Opportunities Commission. He no longer tries cases but stays involved in his clients’ litigation.
In 2014-2019, Bill received a "Super Lawyer" award for Family Law, to join his 2006 award as a "Super Lawyer" in Wisconsin in Tax Law. That year he won a significant sales tax case before the Wisconsin Tax Appeals Commission. Bill has been a Certified Collaborative Lawyer with respect to the new collaborative divorce model since its Wisconsin inception.
Bill has served for decades in charitable organizations serving the community, including the Board of Energy Services, Inc., the Board of Briarpatch Youth Services (as its vice-president and president), and on the Teen Speech Program for the Optimists Club of West Madison, as well as having been president of the Middleton Jaycees. He has also served on different condominium boards as president. Bill has served as president of an EAA airplane flying club.
Since he became an Eagle Scout, he has been interested in the outdoors and has backpacked in the Rockies, canoed in Canada, scuba dove in oceans, and rafted wild rivers. He has several times completed the Birkebeiner (cross country ski marathon) and is an avid downhill skier, tennis player, and biker. Bill has two accomplished daughters, Whitney and Meagan.
William A. Abbott received his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin, with distinction, in 1973. He was then admitted to Beta Gamma Sigma, a business school honor fraternity, and Phi Kappa Phi, an all-school honor fraternity. He received his law degree, cum laude, in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin and was bestowed with the Order of the Coif, which is given to the top ten percent of each law school class.
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