PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, HONORS, AWARDS, AND IN THE NEWS
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
COMMUNITY AND PRO BONO ACTIVITIES
COURTS ADMITTED TO PRACTICE BEFORE
EDUCATION
LAW SCHOOL HONORS AND AWARDS
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS AND AWARDS
EXPERIENCE
PAYMENT RATE
SPEAKER
PERSONAL
COMPUTER SKILLS
SPECIAL SKILLS
HOBBIES

REVIEWS   

Thank you for all your counseling and for simplifying the process. I am very happy with the results.  Former Client, M.D. / Ph.D. Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

Thank you Ernesto for this form. I have tried to do this but am not good enough on the computer to create forms. You are an asset to our profession.  Wisconsin Lawyer

Ernesto: What I needed was you! Thanks a billion!   Wisconsin Lawyer

I have to say again and again Ernesto.... Thank You So Much for all of your help and Dedication to the safety of my babies and the finalization of my divorce.  Since the beginning of this ordeal I have had many guardian angels on earth and you been one of the best, not just being my lawyer but even more as a friend.  Thank You Again !!  Former Client

I just want to thank you again Ernesto for all that you have done for me man. I always talk about you to my troops when they are going through hard times and baby mama drama. I say-my lawyer-ERNESTO ROMERO-hooked me up and we celebrated a few sweet victories in the courtroom when ol' girl was trying to slander me. I owe you a lot man-you'll see by the pictures-Thank you and God Bless.  Former Client

Thanks for the forms. You are a life saver (time saver, anyways)!   Wisconsin Lawyer

You are super! Thanks.  Wisconsin Lawyer

Where would we be without you!?   Wisconsin Lawyer

Thank you very much, your information was just what I was looking for.  Wisconsin Lawyer.

Survey Result on Attorney Ernesto Romero 

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PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, HONORS, AWARDS, AND IN THE NEWS  Back to the top.

  Wisconsin Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson (center) and Attorney Ernesto Romero  

• Developed Wisconsin's first pro se courthouse clinic for the poor. To see clinic click here. 
• Developed Wisconsin's first online survey list of legal process servers recommended by Wisconsin lawyers by county.
• Developed Wisconsin's first online survey list of mediators recommended by Wisconsin lawyers by county.
• Developed Wisconsin's first online survey list of appraisers recommended by Wisconsin lawyers by county.
• Developed Wisconsin's first online survey list of mental health professionals recommended by Wisconsin lawyers by county.
• Created Wisconsin's first online professional evaluation survey form for attorneys.  See sample: Survey Result on Attorney Ernesto Romero 
• Developer of www.SuperJudges.com (aka www.WisconsinJudges.com ) - Wisconsin's first online repository of judicial surveys aimed at recognizing our best and brightest jurists 24/7/365.  See sample: Survey Result on The Hon. John S. Jude
• Named in a Best Lawyers of Milwaukee article September 2001 Edition, Milwaukee Magazine.
• Named in a Best Lawyers - Top 175 Attorneys of Milwaukee article October 1999 Edition, Milwaukee Magazine. (A top 3.7% Peer Survey)
• Wisconsin Supreme Court, State Bar of Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Law Foundation's Private Firm Attorney-of-the-Year Award 1998 - Pro Bono Service for commitment to the delivery of legal services to the poor.
• Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson Appointee to the 1999 American Judicature Society National Convention in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Society is a national organization that promotes excellence in the courts.
• Awarded a Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors' 1999 Resolution Plaque thanking him for his efforts to ensure that Milwaukeeans have equal access to the law.
• Success Stories 1999, LEO Alumni, University of Wisconsin Law School.
• First U.S.A. lawyer to build a non-CGI-bin Web-based program enabling dynamic PDF virtual legal documents to be generated 'on the fly' from user-side virtual data input entered into an easy-to-use interface filled in with controlled tabbing sequence utilizing JavaScript. In short, clients may create and modify their own professional looking, print-on-demand, legal forms effortlessly - filled-in typed, complete, and ready-for-filing 24/7/365 on the Web.
• Wisconsin's first attorney to develop a Web-based legal robot named Z3 designed to generate the fastest and the most complete pleadings for a simple divorce, legal separation, or annulment.  (Z3 was retired due to its overhead costs.)
• Wisconsin's first attorney with a 100% World Wide Web Interactive Law Firm.
• Wisconsin's first attorney to digitize the complete set of divorce and paternity print-on-demand legal forms in HTML, online fill-in Word and PDF formats (full PDF set downloadable in one click) legally valid in all Wisconsin county courthouses at no cost to the public at www.WisconsinForms.com, named a state legal forms resource by FindLaw .
• Secured domain name:  www.CCAP.cc - an easier domain name for attorneys and the public to use.
• Secured domain name:  www.WHLA.org - which contains a directory of Latino lawyers. 
• Secured domain name:  www.WisconsinAbogados.com 
• Secured domain name:  www.MilwaukeeAbogados.com 
• State Bar President Susan R. Steingass Appointee to the Legal Assistance Committee.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Back to the top.

• Member, Wisconsin Club.
• Member, Wisconsin State Bar.
• Former Member, State Bar Legal Assistance Committee.
• Former Member, Wisconsin Working Group on Pro Se Litigant Issues.
• Former Board Member, Family Bench Bar Committee.
• Former Member, Milwaukee Bar Association.
• Former Counselor-Administrator, Leander J. Foley Matrimonial Inns of Court (1997-2005).
• Former President & Web Consultant, Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers' Association, 2001.
• Former Member, Wisconsin's Legal Self-Help Clinics Planning Committee.
• Former Member, Waukesha County Court Self-Help Program Advisory Technology and Forms Committee.
• Former Member, Friends of LEO Fundraising Committee, U.W. Madison Law School.
• Former Member, Former Treasurer 1998-2000, Milwaukee Central Lions Club.

COMMUNITY AND PRO BONO ACTIVITIES Back to the top.

• Co-Founder and Former Director, Wisconsin Family Justice Clinic, in Milwaukee.  Assisted in the development of the legal clinics in Dane and Waukesha counties.
• Former Founder/Moderator, Spanish1aDay (A National Spanish Legal Vocabulary Building e~Mail Service).
• Former Founder/Moderator, e~L.A.W. (A WI Latin Attorney e~Mail News Service).
• Former Founder/Moderator, WHLA.org (The WI Hispanic Lawyers Association Website and Listserve).
• Former Founder/Moderator, WITA (The WI Interpreters and Translators Association Listserve).
• Former Moderator, DosLados (U.S.A. and Mexico Business and Trade Lawyers Association Listserve).
• Former Founder/Former Moderator, JoinWAMA (A WI Association of Minority Attorneys Listserve).
• Former Chairman, UW-Madison - Hispanic/Latino Alumni Association Scholarship Committee.
• Former Computer Consultant, Centro Legal and other private law firms.
• Former Non-profit fund-raiser for the Wisconsin Lion's Camp for blind children in Rosholt, Wisconsin and U.W.M. Latino scholarships (All donations welcomed!)and used eyeglasses collector - given to Lions to give to the poor in Mexico.

COURTS ADMITTED TO PRACTICE BEFORE Back to the top.

• All Wisconsin State Courts
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin

EDUCATION Back to the top.

• University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin. Doctor of Law, 1990. L.E.O. & C.L.E.O. Fellow.
• Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Bachelor of Arts in History, 1987. E.O.P. Member.

LAW SCHOOL HONORS AND AWARDS Back to the top.

• Legal Writing: An "A" Appellate Brief and an "A" Oral Argument
• Law School Dean's List Fall 1989
• Honored by the Law School Dean Cliff F. Thompson and Student Bar Association President for outstanding service performed for the Law School while an elected member of the Student Bar Association, 1L - 3L, February 2, 1988
• Awarded the Ruth Bachhuber Doyle Award for Contribution to Student Leadership, May 1990
• Awarded the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Education Opportunities Graduating Student-of-the-Year-Award - 1990 as evidence of the respect and esteem of fellow classmates
• University of Wisconsin's Chief Justice, Student Body Supreme Court, 1989-90
• Wisconsin Multi-Cultural Law Journal
• Wisconsin Law School Fellowship
• National Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar

UNDERGRADUATE HONORS AND AWARDS Back to the top.

• Marquette University Dean's List (5 semesters)
• National Dean's List
• Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities
• M.U.'s Educational Opportunity Program Scholar/Counselor
• Phi Alpha Theta Member (History Honor Society)
• Big Brother Certificate of Award
• M.U.'s Office of Student Affairs Recognition Awards

EXPERIENCE Back to the top.

• Romero Law Office, L.L.C.,  Online.  Semi-Retired General Solo Practitioner, June 1993 - Present.  See News.  Contested international divorces, annulments, legal separations, and child custody trials.  Currently working on educational family law articles.
• University of Wisconsin,  Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Legal Ethics and Family Law Instructor,  June 2001 - April 2003. 
• Milwaukee County Courthouse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Director of Litigation Services, November 2000 - August 2002.  Responsible for coordinating court operations related to interpretive services and activities of self-represented litigants in Milwaukee county and online. Created website for judicial policy manuals and Internet legal forms. 
• Wisconsin Family Justice Clinic, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Director, September 1997 - April 2005.  Managed clinic Web page and 29 lawyers, paralegals, and M.U. law students.  Assisted 9000+ family law litigants since 1997.
• United States Postal Service, Wisconsin. Mediator, June 1999 - April 2008.  Practiced alternative dispute resolution / transformative mediation in postal employment disputes.
• WisconsinForms.com, Wisconsin. Legal Technologist and Legal Web Consultant, February 2000 - Present. Maintaining leading legal forms Webpage in Wisconsin. Creating legal forms generators. No litigation.
• Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Staff Attorney, August 1990 - May 1993.  Drafted briefs, motions, stipulations, and contracts. Litigated family and civil actions for the poor.
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Madison, Wisconsin. Judicial Intern, September 1989 - January 1990.  Researched secured transactions issues for the Honorable Robert D. Martin, Chief Judge.
• American Bar Association, Harlingen, Texas. Law Clerk, August 1989.  Prepared pleadings in political asylum cases for Central American refugees. A.B.A. Sponsored.
• U.S. Attorney's Office, Chicago, Illinois. Law Clerk, May - July 1989.  Assisted prosecutors with major white-collar crime trials.

PAYMENT RATE Back to the top.

Please call for availability and current rates.    

SPEAKER Back to the top.

• University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Instructor Family Law 2002-2004.
• University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Instructor Ethics and Professional Boundaries 2001-2004.
• University of Wisconsin Law School Guest Panel Lecturer Practicing Law in Cyberspace 2001.
• Wisconsin State Bar Panel Speaker The Future of Pro Bono  - 2001.
• Wisconsin State Bar E-Commerce for the Family Law Attorney - 2000.
• Wisconsin State Bar Establishing a Successful Pro Se Clinic - 2000.
• M.A.T.C. Internet Investigations & Records Searches for Business Professionals - 1997,1998,1999.
• Marquette University Law School Invited class speaker - Successful Solo Practice - 1997.
• Milwaukee Bar Association Presented speaker for Expert witness testimonies on DNA testing - 1997.

PERSONAL Back to the top.

• Born: San Luis Potosí, México, April 4, 1963.
• Learned English at St. Augustin's Parish, Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, 1970-1978, Altar boy 1974-1978 Chicago, Illinois.
• Studied for the Catholic Priesthood, St. Lawrence Seminary, Capuchin Franciscan Order, 1978-1982, Mt. Calvary, Wisconsin, Pre-novitiate 1983, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• Dual Citizenship: México (May 3, 1999) and U.S.A. (August 14, 1985)
• Village of Whitefish Bay resident.  Former Historic Walker's Point resident.
• Married: Florence, Italy, May 24, 2007.  
• No children. 
• Owned two fawn Chinese pug dogs Lucy (December 29, 1993 - February 2, 2007) and Charlie (April 12, 1993 - July 6, 2006).
• A Bright.
• An Objectivist.
• A Libertarian.

COMPUTER SKILLS Back to the top.

• HTML, DHTML

SPECIAL SKILLS Back to the top.

• Trained as an employment law mediator by the U.S. Government.
• Spanish. 

HOBBIES Back to the top.

• Gardening and growing wildflowers.
• Reading the non-fiction works of Ayn Rand and her Objectivist Philosophy
• RVing.
• Outdoor Wisconsin
• Music of Vivaldi, Billie Holiday, Verdi, Puccini
• Firearms Practice
• TiVo
• Z3 Roadsters
• Psychology
• Technology
• Traveling in the United States of America, Italy, and France
• Reading
• Watching Videos
• Movies
• Cyberprenuership

Ernesto Romero in The Hamptons, Long Island, New York, 2008