Company Profile
Godfrey & Kahn
Company Overview
Godfrey & Kahn provides high-level service and creative legal solutions to its clients. For more than 65 years, our attorneys and professional staff have been guided by five core values originally set forth by our founders: A focus on our clients’ success, trust in one another and our clients, a culture of teamwork that helps us achieve more together, a work ethic to achieve whatever is possible, and an integrity that keeps us focused on the right thing to do.
Our firm was founded on a simple idea - judge our success by the success of our clients. We serve clients by first understanding their business and their needs, and then by offering strategic legal advice and smart, practical solutions to real world problems. Our attorneys are quick to collaborate in the interest of client success and service their needs with efficiency and responsiveness. With six locations across Wisconsin and in Washington D.C., our attorneys have made it a point to become an integral part of the communities they serve. Whether we are taking on pro bono cases, supporting environmental causes, or offering university scholarships to promising students, we are proud to be strengthening bonds with our neighbors, within our firm and in our global business community.
Company History
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 190 attorneys in six offices: Milwaukee, Madison, Appleton, Green Bay and Eau Claire, Wisconsin; and Washington, DC.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
We’re honored to be honored. Godfrey & Kahn is proud to have achieved the highest possible Band 1 ranking for our Corporate/M&A practice by Chambers and Partners. We have been recognized for 16 consecutive years as a Top Workplace by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Annually we have nearly thirty attorneys recognized by Super Lawyers as top lawyers or rising stars in their practice area. A number of our attorneys have received industry and pro bono recognition awards.
Benefits
The salary and benefit package offered to our lawyers is competitive with other major firms. You will find our billable hour expectations to be reasonable, and flexible working arrangements attractive. Our extensive benefits package includes group medical, vision, and hearing benefits; disability and life insurance; a profit-sharing plan; a 401(k) plan with a firm matching contribution; and Firm subsidized health savings account (HSA). The firm's group health and dental benefits also cover qualified domestic partners and their dependent children. Other benefits include maternity/paternity leave, home loan assistance; child & elder back-up care, bar exam/bar dues expenses; pet insurance, up to 5 hours of legal counsel for certain circumstances, parking subsidy, after-hour meals, fresh fruit and healthy snacks, and mobile device and data plan allowance. In addition to mandatory bar memberships, the firm supports local bar association memberships and offers in-house training/CLE and mentoring.
Our attorney benefits package includes, but is not limited to, the following:
•Up to $10,000 salary advance
•Moving expenses paid
•Home loan assistance program
•Bar review/examination fees and annual bar dues paid
•Club membership fees and dues paid
•Mobile device and data plan allowance
•Generous maternity/paternity and adoption paid leave
•Domestic partner benefits
•Alternative work schedules
•401(k) plan with firm matching contribution
•Profit-sharing plan
•Health insurance with firm subsidized health savings account (HSA)
•Dental and vision insurance
•Life insurance
•Long-term disability insurance and short-term disability benefits
•Flexible benefit plan
•Dependent care pre-tax deduction
•Parking subsidy
•Employee assistance program
•Dependent & elder care backup assistance program
Note: Above is a listing of the types of benefits currently offered. Eligibility for benefits and benefits payable are subject to the terms of the actual plan documents or policy. All benefits are subject to change at any time for any reason.