Jim Carroll is a shareholder with Buelow Vetter, where his practice focuses on municipal labor & employment law and school law. Jim primarily represents Wisconsin municipal governments and school districts in areas including board governance, public records and open meetings, investigations, labor negotiation and arbitration, contract drafting and review, wage and hour issues, and human resources matters such as discipline and discharge, employee benefits, personnel policies, medical leaves, and reasonable accommodations.
Prior to joining Buelow Vetter, Jim was an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Milwaukee and an Assistant Corporation Counsel for Milwaukee County. As an in-house government attorney Jim advised clients in a broad array of areas including board governance, employment and human resources matters, contracting and procurement, defined benefit and defined contribution plans, elections law, and worker’s compensation, among others. Jim has represented municipal clients in state and federal court and in a variety of administrative proceedings. He has successfully argued on behalf of government entities before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
I don’t watch many lawyer movies/shows, but my favorite on-screen lawyer is Fred Gailey, who establishes that his client, Kris Kringle, is the “one and only Santa Claus” in the 1947 classic “Miracle on 34th Street.”
We have two foolish and entertaining cats, a calico female named Lyra and a grey tabby male named Tybalt
My son Conor is a sophomore engineering student at UW-Madison and my daughter Kiara is a yoga teacher in Madison.
My favorite movie is “The Empire Strikes Back,” but the best movie I have ever seen is “The Godfather, Part II.” Both movies are about turning to the dark side, but only “Empire” leaves open the possibility of redemption.
Read, play tennis, go to the gym, watch sports (football, baseball, soccer, basketball), look at birds, occasionally ride my BMX bike and pretend I am still 11.
Ireland
New Zealand (and yes, this is in no small part because of “The Lord of the Rings” movies).
Fiction: “The Great Gatsby,” while a simple story, changes dramatically every time I read it. Non-Fiction: Robert Caro’s “The Years of Lyndon Johnson,” despite its length and level of detail, is never dull and invariably insightful.
Hair metal (Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, etc.), old school rap/hip-hop (Ice Cube, Public Enemy, etc.), Metallica, Johnny Cash, The Killers, movie soundtracks, Irish folk music
I was a teacher before I became a lawyer, and I would likely return to that field in some capacity or another.
We live in a golden age of television, but I will limit myself to two, both of which focus on the Cold War in one way or another: “The Americans” and “Stranger Things.” Also “Mad Men” . . . and “Breaking Bad.” That’s four; I’ll stop now.
Phil Steele’s College Football Preview and The Economist
Sweet; more specifically, Russell Stover pectin jellybeans.
All Central Suburban League (IL) football, 1993.
My first job was washing towels and cleaning up the locker rooms at an athletic club in Niles, IL. The pay wasn’t great, but I was allowed to take free cans of Gatorade from the vending machines.
