Israel Ramon

Biographical Information

I am a shareholder in the Milwaukee/Madison law firm of Hawks Quindel, S.C. My primary areas of practice include Worker's Compensation and Social Security Disability. I was admitted to practice before the Wisconsin Courts and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin in 1994.

I received an undergraduate degree in Management and Business, magna cum laude, from Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois in 1989 and a law degree from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1994. Prior to practicing law, I was a Certified Respiratory Therapy Technician and a Registered Respiratory Therapist engaged in clinic practice and education. I am listed in the Best Lawyers in America's Consumer Guide. I lecture frequently on Worker's Compensation Law and have chaired the State Bar of Wisconsin's annual Worker's Compensation Update seminar for the last three years.

I am member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Association of Worker's Compensation Attorneys, the Milwaukee Bar Association, the Wisconsin Employment Lawyers Association, the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives. I am the current Secretary and past President of the Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers Association and is on the Board of Directors of Voces de la Frontera, Action.

I am volunteer attorney for the Voces de la Frontera, Inc., legal clinic. Voces is a nonprofit, immigrant and workers rights agency on Milwaukee's south-side. He is a past-board member of the Spanish Centers of Kenosha, Racine and Walworth County, Inc. A nonprofit agency dedicated to the advocacy of the Spanish-speaking Community in South East Wisconsin.

* I practice SSI/SSD in every Wisconsin county except the upper northwest part of the state.