User:Briane

Briane Frederick Pagel, Jr. Born in 1969 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During high school, Briane was awarded the States Viar Poetry Award for a sonnet published in his high school literary magazine, and won an honorable mention the next year for his poem "After Homecoming." He ran twice (unsuccessfully) for Village Board in Hartland, Wisconsin, once as a high school senior.

Briane attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, receiving his Bachelor's degree in Political Science in 1995, graduating Magna Cum Laude. During his undergraduate courses, he was an intern at Pinkerton Risk Assessment in Washington, D.C. While an intern, he was able to arrange to meet Justice Antonin Scalia and the picture of the two of them hangs in his office to this day. Briane also studied for six weeks in Morocco.

Briane received the Russell Bonfiglio Memorial Scholarship for use at the University of Wisconsin Law School, which he attended from 1995 to 1998 and graduated from with honors and was also awarded the CALI Award for excellence in Family Law. While at Law School, he briefly was a member of the Federalist Society and worked for the Tenant Resource Center and interned for then-Governor of Wisconsin Tommy Thompson.

Briane began practicing as a sole practitioner lawyer operating as Pagel Law Office from June, 1998 to September, 2000. During that time he practiced primarily criminal and family law, and won his first jury trial, State v. Goldsby, Dane County Case Number 00 CF 644.

He joined Krekeler Strother, S.C., in September, 2000, shifting to practice primarily family and consumer law and general litigation. He has litigated cases in many counties in Wisconsin and was on the Criminal Justice Act panel attorneys for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which Court he has argued in front of several times.

Briane married in 2000 and lives with his family in Wisconsin. His hobbies include writing fiction, guitar and piano playing, and reading. He enjoys golf, jogging, and racquetball.