About the State Bar of Wisconsin's Initiative Bus Tour
An accomplished attorney with more than 25 years of experience practicing law, Christopher Carson runs the Carson Law Office, an independent legal firm based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Engaged with his peers statewide, Christopher Carson is a longtime member of the State Bar of Wisconsin. Attorneys practicing in Wisconsin tend to set up shop in the state’s urban population centers. The state has 72 counties, and 15 of them have fewer than 10 practicing attorneys, with most of these counties located in the northern part of the state. In an effort to encourage attorneys to practice in rural areas, the State Bar of Wisconsin conducted the Greater Wisconsin Initiative Bus Tour in October 2018. The bar took practicing attorneys and law students through these rural counties in order to network with stakeholders in their local legal communities, (i.e., judges, other lawyers, community leaders) and perhaps spark the desire to practice in a rural area. In his comments, State Bar of Wisconsin planning group member Chad Schimmelpfenning said the Bus Tour is an effort on behalf of the bar to make access to legal services more widely available in rural Wisconsin.
