Kimberly Laura Alderman
Alderman Law FirmKimberly Alderman was in the top of her class when she earned her law degree from the Howard University School of Law in Washington, DC. She then served as a judicial clerk in the Superior Court of the US Virgin Islands. Following her clerkship, she was an associate attorney in a general practice law firm, representing clients in state and federal court. She continued her professional journey by joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she taught criminal appellate litigation and civil practice skills. She serves as the Chair of the Executive Committee for the American Society of International Law’s Cultural Heritage and the Arts Group, a member of the American Bar Association’s Art and Cultural Heritage Law Committee, and the Chair of the CLE Committee for the Wisconsin State Bar Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section. She is a member of the Wisconsin State Bar Appellate Practice Section and the committee for the State Bar of Wisconsin Wills for Heroes program, which provides pro bono assistance with wills and other estate planning documents for first responders. Attorney Alderman has published extensively in academic journals and popular publications. She has appeared across the country to speak and has been interviewed by BBC, NPR, and The Art Newspaper. She is the author of The Freelance Lawyering Manual (2011), The Long Winter (2013), and Foreclosure Defense: Litigation Strategies and Appeals (2013). She also maintains the Wisconsin Appeals Blog
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Collections
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Expungement, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
- Foreclosure Defense
- New Mexico
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- US Virgin Islands
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- Wisconsin
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- 7th Circuit
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- English: Spoken, Written
- Spanish: Spoken
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- Alderman Law Firm
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
- University of Wisconsin Law School
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- Attorney
- The Alan Maestas Law Office
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- Judicial Clerk
- Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix
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- Howard University School of Law
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- University of Maryland - College Park
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- Association of Research into Crimes against Art, Amelia, Italy
- M.A.
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- Appellate Practice Committee in the ABA Section of Litigation
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- Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division, American Bar Association
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- Appellate Practice Section, State Bar of Wisconsin
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- Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Education Committee Member
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- American Society of International Law’s Cultural Heritage and the Arts Group
- Chair of Executive Committee and Member of Board
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- State Bar of Wisconsin
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- State Bar of New Mexico
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- United States Virgin Islands Bar
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- ABA Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee
- Vice Chair of Steering Committee
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- Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
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- Art Crime
- Encyclopedia of Criminology & Criminal Justice
- National Treasure: A Comparative Analysis of Domestic Laws Criminalizing Illicit Excavation and Exportation of Archaeological Objects
- Mercer Law Review
- Yale's Repatriation of the Machu Picchu Artifacts to Peru
- Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
- NEED TO KNOW: What is a ‘final judgment or order’ for the purposes of appeal?
- Wisconsin Law Journal
