What to do when a business dispute begins
Early decisions about documents, communications, leverage, and business relationships can shape the entire case.
Read insight →DeKosky Law, LLC · Wisconsin
Helping you grow.
Protecting what you've built.
DeKosky Law helps people and businesses pursue opportunities, manage legal risk, and resolve disputes. Experienced, trial-ready representation when legal concerns threaten careers, financial security, freedom, or reputation.
Core Practices
Counsel for what comes next.
Integrating five overlapping legal areas, the practice delivers comprehensive business, employment, and defense coverage. Proactive counseling prevents disputes to keep routine concerns out of court. Precise contract language drives resolutions. And when criminal allegations threaten your livelihood, zealous advocacy protects you.
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Business Consulting and Litigation
Business counseling on compliance, risk, contracts, and best practices—plus trial-ready representation in commercial disputes, ownership conflicts, business torts, reputational matters, and emergency relief.
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Employment and Labor
Employment counsel and litigation for businesses, professionals, executives, and employees, together with labor-law representation for traditional unions and management.
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Contracts
Drafting, review, negotiation, interpretation, breach claims, risk allocation, settlement agreements, and dispute-prevention planning.
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Construction and Contractor
Construction and contractor claims and defenses, payment disputes, defective-work allegations, delay and completion disputes, change orders, and construction contracts.
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Criminal Defense
Trial-ready defense when a criminal investigation or charge threatens freedom, employment, professional standing, family, or reputation.
The through line
Reputation is always part of the case—even when it's not written in the caption.
A legal dispute rarely affects only legal rights. It can upend relationships with friends, customers, partners, employees, and regulators. DeKosky Law considers those consequences as part of an integrated legal strategy, rather than treating them as an afterthought.
This means looking beyond what can be won in a courtroom to develop a legal strategy that protects your reputation outside of it.
“Protect the legal position. Preserve the options. Keep sight of the business, career, freedom, and reputation behind the case.”
— The strategic approach behind DeKosky Law
Representative Results
Prepared for resolution. Ready for trial.
DeKosky Law delivers comprehensive trial and advisory experience, backed by a track record of favorable outcomes across commercial litigation, complex civil disputes, workplace claims, and criminal defense.
Commercial Litigation
Dismissal of claims in a multimillion-dollar contract dispute and successful defense of a multimillion-dollar executive-partnership dispute.
Employment Litigation
Summary judgment for an employer on discrimination and retaliation claims, successfully defended on appeal to the Seventh Circuit.
Employment Rights
Summary judgment for an employee on a novel issue under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Labor & ERISA
Successful defense of ERISA claims on behalf of union employers and representation in labor grievance and disciplinary matters.
Criminal Defense
Not-guilty verdicts in misdemeanor and felony criminal trials, along with dismissals of criminal and OWI charges.
Appeals & Administrative
Reversals involving wrongful termination, pension and retirement benefits, and unemployment compensation.
Representative outcomes are described at a high level to preserve client confidentiality. Every matter depends on its facts and law; prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Founder · Principal Attorney
Aaron DeKosky
Aaron has been consistently recognized and nominated by America’s Top Trial Lawyers and Elite Lawyers. He brings courtroom-tested advocacy to high-stakes litigation, having extensive experience leading complex civil disputes from intake through resolution in Wisconsin federal, state and administrative courts.
As an advisor, Aaron counsels executives and senior leaders concerning risk assessment and strategy, delivering practical, solution-oriented advice that balances legal exposure, business objectives, and cost. His employment and labor practice brings rare insight from both sides of the table, backed by experience representing both management and labor unions alike.
Aaron currently serves as a FINRA arbitrator, presiding over financial disputes to evaluate evidence and adjudicate legal arguments. This quasi-judicial role provides a rare, behind-the-scenes perspective on how decision-makers assess credibility, weigh proof, and react to case framing.
Insights
Useful guidance before the next decision.
The firm's content strategy is built around real questions clients face—not generic legal marketing.
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