About Julie Leary
Julie A. Leary is an attorney at Cannon & Dunphy S.C. focused on personal injury matters.
Leary earned her Juris Doctor cum laude from Marquette University Law School in 2020 and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Texas in 2016. In law school she received CALI Awards for the highest grades in Appellate Writing and Advocacy, International Law, Community Economic Development, and Civil Rights, made the Dean's List (Spring and Fall 2019), and was a recipient of the Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers Association Law Student Scholarship. She competed in the National Appellate Advocacy Competition (2020), where she was named Ninth Best Oralist, and the Jenkins Moot Court Competition (2019). She also served as a research assistant in international law and held leadership positions in the Moot Court Association and Hispanic Law Student Association.
Leary is admitted to the State Bar of Wisconsin. Before joining Cannon & Dunphy in May 2022, she handled matters involving administrative proceedings, employment barriers, municipal and forfeiture defense, and immigration law. She is a member of the Association for Women Lawyers and the Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cannon & Dunphy S.C.
These results are credited to Cannon & Dunphy S.C.. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Walworth County jury found Waukesha Memorial Hospital liable after a nurse pushed air into a two-week-old premature infant's IV line during a blood transfusion, sending emboli to his brain and leaving him with permanent quadriplegia and no usable speech.
A Milwaukee jury verdict and a related settlement delivered $25.24 million to a family after an unlicensed first-year resident spent 11 hours treating their teenage daughter for constipation while a twisted bowel killed the tissue it fed.
An Ozaukee County jury awarded the estate of Judith Cisewski $15 million after a retaining wall at her Port Washington senior living campus collapsed and buried her under concrete blocks for roughly two hours; she died the following day.
The family of a three-year-old girl who died of E. coli traced to contaminated beef at a South Milwaukee Sizzler reached a $13.5 million settlement, among the largest food-borne-illness recoveries in the country.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
