About Greg

Greg Everts was a partner in the Commercial Litigation group.

Professional Recognitions

  • Gonring Pro Bono Award Recipient (2024)
  • Best Lawyers in America® "Lawyer of the Year" (2023: Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement [SEC, Telecom, Energy])
  • Best Lawyers in America® (2016-present - Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement [SEC, Telecom, Energy])
  • Best Trade Secrets Dispute Attorney, 2016 Intellectual Property Awards, Acquisition International
  • Martindale-Hubbell® AV Peer Review Rated
  • Life Fellow of the Wisconsin Law Foundation
  • Fellow of the American Bar Association
  • Group Pro Bono Award, Seventh Circuit Bar Association, leader of a legal team representing two prisoners with serious mental illnesses in a lawsuit that successfully challenged conditions of solitary confinement at the Waupun (Wisconsin) Correctional Institution.

Professional & Civic Activities

  • Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice (1990-1997)
    • Attorney General's Honor Program (1990-1993)
    • Commissioner's Special Citation, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1997)
    • Food and Drug Administration Group Award for the investigation of smuggled and unapproved drugs in the veal industry (1997)
    • USDOJ Special Achievement Awards (1992-1996)
  • Associate counsel, Office of the Vice President; special counsel, President's Crime Prevention Counsel (1995-1996)
  • Former news reporter, Congressional press secretary and legislative assistant
  • University of Wisconsin Law School, Complex Litigation§ 950, adjunct professor (2021-present)
  • Western District of Wisconsin Bar Association, president (2007-2008), board of governors (2002-2012)
  • James E. Doyle Inns of Court, member 
  • American Bar Association, State Bar of Wisconsin, Dane County Bar Association, member
  • Former Madison Club Charitable Foundation, founder/director (2008-2018), president (2012-2016)
  • Rotary Club of Downtown Madison, member (2002-present)
  • Madison Club, director (2017-2023), president (2022-2023)
  • Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, director (2015-2021)
  • Edgewood Condominium Association Inc., chair (2011-2014); Edgewood Campus School, trustee (2002-2008); ECS Committee on Campus Governance, chair (2007-2011)
  • Criminal Penalties Study Committee, State of Wisconsin, member (1998-1999)

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Education

  • University of Michigan Law School (J.D., cum laude)
    • Order of the Coif
    • Attorney General's Honor Program, U.S. Department of Justice
    • Michigan Law Review, book review editor
  • Princeton University (M.P.A.)
    • Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison (B.A.)
    • Political Science, Journalism

Bar Admissions

  • Wisconsin
  • District of Columbia (Inactive)

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
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