Krista G. LaFave Attorney
Admitted To Bar
2013, State of Wisconsin
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
Education
Memberships:
- Association for Women Lawyers
- Professional Dimensions
- Milwaukee Bar Association
- American Association for Justice
- Wisconsin Association for Justice
Honors & Activities
- President of the Association for Women Lawyers, 2024-2025
- Recognized as Best Lawyers: One to Watch in America (2025)
- Selected as a Super Lawyer Rising Star, 2018-2024
- Recognized in 2025 as Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
- Selected to The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 Under 40
- Association for Women Lawyers, Litigation Discussion Group Chair (2014-2019), Board Member (2019-present), President (2023-2024)
- Elected as a Governor to the Wisconsin State Bar Board of Governors (7/1/2018 - 6/30/2020; reelected 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2022); elected by fellow Governors to Executive Committee (7/1/2020-6/30/2021); selected to Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee (2021-2022)
- Appointed as a representative from the Wisconsin State Bar to the American Bar Association (7/1/2020 - 6/30/2022)
- Member of the Board of Zoning Appeals, Wauwatosa, WI (2018-2022)
- Volunteer Attorney, Eviction Defense Project (2017-2022)
- Sheraton Lawns Neighborhood Association, Wauwatosa, WI, Board Member (2014-2019), President (2018-2019)
- Hope Network, Inc., Board member (2015-2018)
Experience
- Simpson & Deardorff, S.C., Associate Attorney (2014-2016)
- Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Milwaukee, WI, Law Clerk (2013–2014)
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, Judicial Extern (2012–2013)
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Milwaukee, WI, Extern for the Legal Unit (2012)
- Wisconsin Supreme Court, Madison, WI, Judicial Intern (2011)
- Bureau d’Avocats Protat, Paris, France, Legal Intern (2011)
- Tulane University Legal Assistance Program, New Orleans, LA, Law Clerk (2011)
Personal Profiles
