Micabil Diaz-Martinez

Attorney Micabil Diaz has been practicing law over 30 years. His legal career can succinctly be summarized as one of service; both at the governmental and the not-for profit arena.  His career includes significant litigation experience in both state and federal venues, including the military under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice. One of the highlights of his career as an army judge advocate was the authorship, while deployed in Bosnia, of a standard operations procedure for the safekeeping and protection of evidence of mass graves on behalf of the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (IWCTFY).

Upon his honorable discharge from military service, Attorney Diaz returned to Wisconsin where he appeared as the attorney of record in over 500 cases in courts throughout the state, representing individuals and institutions in a myriad of legal issues.  As to the federal venue Attorney Diaz has represented individuals and has appeared in both the Eastern and Western District of Wisconsin primarily in litigation involving civil rights cases under Section 1983.  As Assistant Chief Legal Counsel for the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, Attorney Diaz represented the interests of the agency for a period of six years in both the Eastern and Western District’s Bankruptcy Courts. In the area of administrative law, Attorney Diaz conducted over 200 administrative hearings in Wisconsin as a Class 3 hearing officer on behalf of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs.  In addition as a prosecuting attorney for the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services, Attorney Diaz provided direct legal representation to the Department and its Boards in administrative hearings on disciplinary matters and license denials. Attorney Diaz also served as Deputy Secretary from 2005-2007 for the Department of Workforce Development overseeing the agency’s day to day operations, and supervising the agency’s $2 billion annual budget. In 2005, Attorney Diaz served as Chairperson to the Governor’s Minimum Wage Advisory Council.

From 1997 to 2000 Attorney Diaz served as the legal director of the state affiliate of the national ACLU. In this capacity he coordinated the advocacy, litigation, lobbying efforts and public education of civil liberties and civil rights of all residents of Wisconsin.

Currently Attorney Diaz is owner and managing attorney of Diaz Law Firm, LLC. Based in Madison Wisconsin, the firm focuses on individual representation of clients in the areas of bankruptcy

Wisconsin – 1989

Iowa – 2016

US District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin –1989

US District Court Western District of Wisconsin – 1990

US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit – 1992

US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit – 1992

US Army Court of Military Review – 1992

US Army Court of Criminal Appeals – 1992

US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces – 2003

US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims – 2010

Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Court – 2019

Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

• BA, History and Political Science (1986)
•  JD [Thomas Moore Scholar] (1989)

May 2014 – Present

Owner, Managing Attorney, Diaz Law Firm, LLC

July 2013 – February 2014

Prosecuting Attorney, Wisconsin’s Department of Safety and Professional Services

December 2007 – June 2013

Deputy Chief Legal Counsel, Wisconsin’s Department of Veterans Affairs

February 2007 – December 2007

Division Administrator, Division of Veterans’ Homes, Wisconsin’s Department of Veterans Affairs

January 2005 – February 2007

Deputy Secretary, Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development

February 2003 – January 2005

Administrator, Equal Rights Division, Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development

September 2000-March 2003

Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin Foundation

November 1999 – September 2000

Attorney, Stoltman Law Offices

April 1999 – September 2000

Affirmative Action Officer, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College

June 1997 – April 1999

Attorney, Legal Services of Northeastern Wisconsin

July 1992 – May 1997

Military Attorney, U.S.  Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps

October 1991 – July 1992

Legal Clerk, Puerto Rico Occupational Information Coordinating Committee

October 1990 – September 1991

Judicial Clerk, Hon. Evaristo Orengo Jr.

May 1990 – September 1990

Associate Attorney, Mandelman & Rihn Law Offices

December 1989 – April 1990

Associate Attorney, Cook Law Offices

August 1989 – December 1989

Summer Intern, National Labor Relations Board

Milwaukee’s Latino Citizen of the Year Award – June 2003

Hoban-Davenport Disabled American Veterans’ Award—June 2006

Wisconsin’s Hispanic Man of the Year – November 2006

Wisconsin’s Law Foundation Fellow – October 2014

ABA Foundation Fellow – December 2016

State Bar of Wisconsin – Member (1989-Present)

State Bar of Iowa – Member (2016-Present)

American Bar Association (2015-Present)

American Immigration Lawyers’ Association (2016-Present)

Hispanic National Bar Association – Member (2007-Present)

Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers’ Association – Member (1995-Present), President (2006-2007, 2012-2014)

Milwaukee Bar Association – Member (2000-present)

Dane County Bar Association – Member (2003-present)

Latino Professional Association of Greater Madison – Member (2014-present)

Latino Chamber of Commerce of Dane County – Member (2014-present)

American GI Forum Wisconsin Chapter – Lifetime member (2006)

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1318 – Lifetime member (2008)

American Foreign Legion Post 348 – Member (2005)

Lecturer- Assistant Professor Upper Iowa University

 Administrative Law – Madison Campus

Business Law – Madison Campus

Business Ethics – Madison Campus