Thomas Rohe is a shareholder in the Milwaukee Office.
He was born in Menasha, Wisconsin, and was raised in the Menasha & Gresham areas. He obtained a B.A. in Economics and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating with honors in 1985. He attended Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina, on the Dunspaugh-Dalton Merit Scholarship, and received his J.D. in 1988.
After a year with a management labor law firm, Mr. Rohe switched to worker’s compensation defense. He has been practicing worker’s compensation defense exclusively since 1989, and has received an AV-rating, the highest possible, from Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.
Mr. Rohe has given over 25 presentations to legal, industrial and insurance organizations on various aspects of worker’s compensation law. He has been a presenter at the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Advanced Worker’s Compensation Symposium, which explores complex medical/legal issues, on three occasions. He has also spoken in front of organizations such as the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commence, the Wisconsin Association of Worker’s Compensation Attorneys, the Milwaukee Insurance Adjusters Association, and at the State Bar of Annual Worker’s Compensation Update.
Mr. Rohe has authored a booklet on The Most Significant 25 Cases in Wisconsin Worker’s Compensation, which is intended as a case law supplement to the Department of Workforce Development’s Worker’s Compensation Statute Book.
Mr. Rohe has developed a subspecialty in unusually complex worker’s compensation matters, particularly involving pulmonary and allergy cases. Having successfully handled over 100 cases of this nature, Mr. Rohe is considered a leading expert in this area.
- Education
- B.A. Economics and Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985
- J.D. Duke University School of Law, 1988
- Admissions
- State of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court-Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court-Western District of Wisconsin
- Honors and Recognitions
- AV Rated in Martindale Hubbell
- Dunspaugh-Dalton Merit Scholarship, Duke University School of Law
- Professional Memberships and Associations
- State Bar of Wisconsin
- Civil Trial Counsel of Wisconsin
- Community Involvement
- Milwaukee Insurance Adjusters Association, Vice President, 1995-1996
- Guardian Ad Litem, Durham County, North Carolina, 1986-1988
- Reported Decisions
DaimlerChrysler v. LIRC, 2007 WI 15
Hagen v. LIRC, 210 Wis. 2d 12 (1997) (wrote amicus brief for Wisconsin Insurance Alliance)
Harnischfeger Corp. v. LIRC, 196 Wis. 2d 650 (1995)
Michels Pipeline Construction v. LIRC, 2008 WI App 55
Town of Russell Volunteer Fire Dept. v. LIRC, 223 Wis. 2d 723 (Ct. App. 1998)
Hermax Carpet Marts v. LIRC, 220 Wis. 2d 611 (Ct. App. 1998)
Wright v. LIRC, 210 Wis. 2d 289 (Ct. App. 1997)
Universal Foods v. LIRC, 161 Wis. 2d 1 (Ct. App. 1991)
- Seminars
- Trying the Pulmonary Case: Demystifying Lung Medicine;
- The Most Significant 25 Cases in Wisconsin Worker’s Compensation;
- He’s Hurt, He’s Back & He’s a Pain in the Neck: The Operation of the Unreasonable Refusal to Rehire Statute;
- Discovering the Truth: Investigative Techniques in Workers’ Compensation Cases;
- The Law of Occupational Hearing Loss;
- Life on the Cutting Edge: Honthaners, Mireles and the Law of Disability;