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Doris E. Brosnan

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Doris E. Brosnan

Attorney

  • Telephone

    (414) 287-1405

  • Fax

    (414) 238-6518

  • Email

  • Office

    Milwaukee
    411 East Wisconsin Avenue
    Suite 1000
    Milwaukee, WI 53202

Doris Brosnan is a Shareholder and Chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Law Section. She focuses her practice exclusively on assisting clients with employment issues. Doris regularly advises health care and corporate clients on dealing with disloyal or difficult employees, accommodating disabilities in the workplace, harassment, workplace violence, FMLA, and the development of effective employment policies and practices. She regularly assists clients in preparing and implementing employee transition plans, including employment due diligence in mergers and acquisitions, severance agreements, business closings and reductions-in-force, and business reorganizations. Doris defends employers in all types of employment-related litigation, including agency discrimination and wage claims, arbitrations, and multi-party employment litigation before federal and state courts.

Doris also assists clients in achieving employment objectives by providing immigration services, with an emphasis on business immigration, including non-immigrant visas such as the H-1B, L-1, O-1, TN, and immigrant visas (permanent residence) through employment means such as outstanding researcher, extraordinary ability, and the PERM labor certification process. Doris also counsels companies on developing, maintaining, and defending immigration compliance programs.

Finally, Doris advises hospitals and health care systems on a wide range of medical staff questions, including credentialing, terminations and suspensions of medical staff privileges, peer review issues, and required reporting. When medical staff disputes arise, Doris assists clients in litigation and fair hearings.

  • University of Wisconsin, J.D., cum laude 1998
  • Marquette University, B.A., cum laude, 1994, Phi Beta Kappa

  • Wisconsin

  • American Health Law Association (AHLA), Labor & Employment Practice Group
  • State Bar of Wisconsin, Labor and Employment Law Section and Immigration Section
  • Wisconsin Healthcare Human Resources Administration (WSHRRA)
  • American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)

  • “Immigration Law Developments: What In-House Counsel Needs to Know,” Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Wisconsin Chapter Annual Meeting, May 2026
  • “Employment Law Update,” April 2026, Wisconsin Healthcare Human Resources Association Annual Conference, April 2026
  • “Background Checks: Compliance, Consistency, and Risk Management for Human Resources Professionals,” MRA Employment Law Update, February 2026 
  • “Background Checks and the Healthcare Workplace,” Wisconsin Healthcare Human Resources Association, October 2025
  • “Navigating Antitrust: Essential Steps for Human Resource Professionals,” MRA Employment Law Update, February 2025
  • “AI in Recruiting and Documentation of Employee Concerns,” Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, October 2025 
  • “Social Media, Privacy/Security & Health Care Practitioners,” State Bar of Wisconsin, August 2017
  • "Whistleblowers and Recent Enforcement Trends", Milwaukee Bar Association, May 2017
  • "Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers: Litigation Update and Hot Regulatory Issues", Wisconsin Hospital Association, January 2017
  • "An Employer Guide: DOL’s New Overtime Exemption Rules", September 2016

  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Employment Law - Management (2025-2026), Litigation - Labor and Employment Law (2021-2026)
  • 2025 Powerlist - Immigration Law Attorney, Wisconsin Law Journal

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