Patricia Wise
Patricia Wise is certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a labor and employment law specialist and represents diverse clients of all sizes and lines of business. She has been interviewed by NPR, quoted in The Wall Street Journal and The Economist, and has contributed to publications from San Francisco to Atlanta. Wise has testified before a Congressional subcommittee, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the California State Legislature. In 2014, the Ohio Supreme Court appointed Wise to the Board of Professional Conduct, where she served for 9 years, including 2 as chair.
Former EEOC Chair Jenny Yang selected her to serve on the EEOC’s Select Task Force on Workplace Harassment. Wise is a past member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Labor Relations Special Expertise Panel, which she co-chaired in 2014-2015. She has trained thousands of students and professionals in civil rights and employment law, including state banking associations throughout the country, and served as a full-time and part-time professor for more than two decades.
Wise serves on the faculty of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has authored books on harassment and retaliation and previously worked as in-house counsel for a multi-billion-dollar bank holding company. For over 15 years, she has held Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent rating, the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards. Wise is a College of Labor and Employment Lawyers member and a certified Title IX investigator.