We think business.

Dudley Godfrey and Jerry Kahn started practice together in 1957 with a simple idea: think like a business person and judge your success by the success of your clients. Dudley and Jerry's partnership has grown into today's Godfrey & Kahn, a team of more than 180 attorneys in seven offices: Milwaukee, Madison, Appleton, Green Bay and Waukesha, Wisconsin; Washington, DC, and Shanghai, PRC.

For more than 50 years Dudley and Jerry's simple idea has animated our practice of law. We serve our clients first by understanding their business, their goals, and their specific needs. Our goal has always been to provide smart, practical solutions to real-world problems, and this perspective will guide us and you into the 21st century. We're very proud that some of our clients think of us as business people who happen to be lawyers.

What makes Godfrey & Kahn special is our commitment to five core values, each of which Dudley and Jerry instilled in their partners, and which are now passed on to each new member of the team: a powerful focus on client service, a trust in each other to give our best and do what's right, a culture of teamwork that helps us achieve more together than any of us could alone, and work ethic and a sense of integrity that makes success both possible and satisfying.

These core values make Godfrey & Kahn a great place to work, and a great firm to work with.