New law firm formed in Waukesha

Attorneys John V. McCoy and Thomas C. Hofbauer, partners in the former Waukesha law firm, Bode, Carroll, McCoy & Mihal, have announced the formation of a new law firm, McCoy & Hofbauer.
They will be joined by four other attorneys from the Bode, Carroll firm, Brian Radloff, Carrie Turner, Rich Fuller, and Tom Mihal, who will be of counsel, as well as several of the former firm’s support staff. John Schellinger has been named office manager of the new firm.
Managing partner John McCoy said, “McCoy & Hofbauer’s areas of legal emphasis are catastrophic and complex civil litigation, professional malpractice, product liability, trucking, gas fires and explosions, construction litigation and business disputes. Many of our firm’s clients are national in scope, as well as regional and local businesses and individuals. All of our clients have come with us to the new firm.”
All of the attorneys at the new firm have worked together for several years. McCoy is a member of the State Bars of Wisconsin and Iowa and a member of several Bar associations, including American, Wisconsin and Iowa. In addition, he is active in several industry associations of which his clients are members, and has published several dozen papers and made presentations on subjects of interest to his clients on propane gas, pipelines, employment law, sexual harassment, self-insurance, business litigation, deafness and burn injury. He is past president of the Propane Gas Defense Association and serves on the Board of the Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Hofbauer is a member of the state Bars of Wisconsin and Illinois and is also a member of several Bar associations in Wisconsin and Illinois. His primary areas of practice include business litigation, commercial contracts, employment law, insurance, civil litigation and personal injury matters. He has also defended lawyers, engineers, architects, nursing home caregivers and physicians again~ malpractice claims.
McCoy & Holbauer will be headquartered in the former Bode, Carroll offices at 20700 Swenson Dr., Suite 250, Waukesha. The new firm will retain the old firm’s phone numbers, 262-797-9907 and 800-599-8300.
Nov. 8, 2002 Small Business Times, Milwaukee