Krista LaFave

Milwaukee, WI12 years experienceAdmitted 2013

About Krista LaFave

Krista G. LaFave is an Attorney at Warshafsky Law Firm in Milwaukee.

LaFave earned her Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School and her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is admitted to the State Bar of Wisconsin (2013), the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

LaFave joined Warshafsky in 2016 after gaining experience in circuit courts and insurance representation. A Wauwatosa resident.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Warshafsky Law Firm

These results are credited to Warshafsky Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$15 millionVerdict

A federal jury in Wichita awarded $15 million to a couple whose infant daughter was left with permanent brain damage after Wyeth's DPT vaccine, a 1987 verdict the Tenth Circuit later reversed and sent back for a new trial.

U.S. District Court, District of Kansas (Wichita, KS) · 1987Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$6 millionVerdict

A federal jury in Milwaukee awarded three men poisoned by lead paint as children $6 million against Sherwin-Williams, DuPont, and Armstrong, a verdict the Seventh Circuit later reversed.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) · 2019Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$4.9 millionVerdictTop 20 in Wisconsin · #19

Ted Warshafsky won a $4,983,966 award for a 9-year-old boy left with brain damage after a near-fatal car crash, the largest personal injury recovery in Wisconsin history at the time.

Wisconsin (state court) · 1979Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$2.9 millionSettlement

A Milwaukee spine surgeon was set to operate on the right side of Ken Plants's spine in 2004 and cut the left instead; Ted Warshafsky's firm settled the case for $2.9 million in 2009.

Milwaukee County, WI · 2009Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$2 millionSettlement

Ted Warshafsky argued that a farm grinding machine's emergency shutoff was defectively designed, and recovered $2 million for the man it maimed.

Wisconsin · 1981Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Wisconsin, admitted 2013
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
State Bar of U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

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$633,682 · Milwaukee County Jury Returns $633,682 Verdict in Day-Care Van Death of 7-Year-Old
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PKSD Accident and Injury Lawyers
$11 Million Verdict for Estate of 88-Year-Old Who Developed Fatal Heel Wounds at Albuquerque Nursing Facility

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.