Boardman Clark Welcomes Stella Furlano

Boardman Clark is proud to announce that Stella Furlano has joined the firm. Her practice will center around family law and immigration law

Stella graduated from UW-Madison's Law School this past spring. During school, she clerked at Boardman Clark and worked at the Family Law Advocacy and Support Clinic as a clinical law student. Here, she represented clients in juvenile guardianships and modifications of legal custody, physical placement, and child support. Before her clinical experience, Stella spent a year clerking for the Honorable Judge Brian W. Blanchard of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals – District IV.

"After clerking here already for two years, she is hitting the ground running," says Marta Meyers, chair of the Family Law Practice Group. "She brings a lot of value to our team and our clients."

Boardman Clark is one of Madison’s largest and longest-standing law firms. The firm serves individuals, businesses, school districts, and local governments. Its areas of service include litigation, franchise and dealership law, business law, taxation, estate planning and probate, intellectual property, family law, municipal law, banking, labor and employment, land use, elder services, real estate, and school law.

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