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About Edward Vopal
Edward J. Vopal is a shareholder of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. and the managing partner of the firm's Green Bay and Appleton offices, a position he assumed in 2025. He focuses his practice on personal injury litigation.
Vopal earned his Juris Doctor with Senior Honors from Valparaiso University School of Law in 1994 and his Bachelor's degree in English cum laude from Northern Michigan University in 1991. He is licensed to practice law in Wisconsin and Michigan and admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin.
Vopal practiced for three years in Green Bay before joining Habush Habush & Rottier and was elected a shareholder in 2001. He has been certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He has taught trial advocacy at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison and is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin (serving on the Group and Prepaid Legal Services Committee 2003-2007 and the Lawyer Regulation Study Committee 2004-2007), the Brown County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. He has been named to the Wisconsin Super Lawyers list since 2007.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Habush Habush & Rottier S.C.
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Robert Habush won a $99.25 million Milwaukee County jury verdict for the widows of three ironworkers killed when the Big Blue crane collapsed at Miller Park. The appeals court vacated the $94 million punitive award, the Wisconsin Supreme Court reinstated the claim in 2005, and the widows settled in January 2006 for about $30 million.
A Racine County jury found Hyundai's driver-seat and head-restraint design defective and awarded Edward and Susan Vanderventer $38.1 million, the largest single-plaintiff compensatory verdict in Wisconsin history, later upheld on appeal.
A Milwaukee County jury awarded $25.3 million after emergency room providers failed to tell Ascaris Mayo that her symptoms could mean a Strep A infection, an omission that cost her all four limbs, though the Wisconsin Supreme Court later reinstated the state's $750,000 cap on noneconomic damages.
A Fitchburg family recovered $22.5 million after their six-week-old son suffered permanent brain damage during surgery at UW Health's American Family Children's Hospital. The suit alleged an anesthesia resident failed to respond to prolonged low blood pressure readings. It is the second largest payment ever made by Wisconsin's Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund.
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