Mays Law Office

Stephen E. Mays

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Attorney Stephen E. Mays, as the owner of Mays Law Office, LLC, practices in all areas of criminal and traffic defense throughout the entire State of Wisconsin. Prior to his becoming a defense attorney, Attorney Mays worked in the Dane County District Attorney’s office.

He has won OWI cases at the municipal, circuit, appellate, and Supreme Court levels, and appears regularly before the Federal District Court of Wisconsin and the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

Attorney Mays is a past president and member of the Dane County Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Association, as well as a sustaining member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Bar Association for the Western and Eastern Districts of Wisconsin. He is a member of the James E. Doyle Inns of Court, as well as an active member of the national college for DUI Defense and Drunk Driving Roundtable – an association of attorneys dedicated to the tenacious defense of citizens accused of drunk driving.

He was selected to be a member of the Department of Transportation’s Technical Committee, and has testified before various committees regarding proposed motor vehicle legislation, most recently convincing a sub-committee not to extend the territorial boundaries for OWI enforcement. He is a frequent lecturer throughout the state on the defense of intoxicated driving, which includes an annual presentation in the “Strategies in Handling OWI Cases in Wisconsin” series, a seminar touted as a "must attend” for Wisconsin lawyers defending OWI cases. Attorney Mays has been named one of Madison's Top Lawyers in the area of drunk driving and traffic violations by his peers in a Madison Magazine survey of top lawyers. He has consistently been named a SuperLawyer, receiving that distinction again in 2012, a list featuring the top 2.5 percent of lawyers in the State of Wisconsin in the field of Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI.

Several of Attorney Mays’ cases have attracted substantial media attention, including the successful defense of an individual charged with killing his twin infant daughters while allegedly driving drunk. Attorney Mays has had a number of his cases published in the Wisconsin Reports, thereby establishing precedent that all future cases must follow.

Attorney Mays’ cross examination techniques have gained him statewide recognition as one which has police officers persuading prosecutors to amend charges so as to not have to subject themselves to his cross-examination again.

Lisa Pierobon Mays

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Ms. Mays is deeply committed to making sure that injured workers are treated fairly and get the full compensation to which they are entitled for workplace injuries. She is very focused on representing injured workers, as well as people injured because of the negligence of others. She stresses that many people receiving workers’ compensation are not getting full benefits. Even if you are receiving benefits, her experience and thorough knowledge of the workers’ compensation often results in clients getting all the benefits that they deserve.

John C. Orth

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Attorney John C. Orth joined Mays Law Office in 2004 and practices criminal and traffic defense throughout the State of Wisconsin. Prior to joining the firm, Attorney Orth served as an intern to Justice David T. Prosser of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He attended the University of Wisconsin – Madison for both undergraduate and law studies, earning a B.B.A. in finance and a J.D. and was admitted to practice before Wisconsin’s State courts in 2003 and the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin in 2005.

During his tenure interning at the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Attorney Orth had the opportunity to concentrate on cases before the Court in specific areas of criminal and traffic law, particularly related to 4th Amendment search and seizure issues as well as intoxicated driving law. In doing so, he developed both an insight into the workings of Wisconsin’s appellate courts and an intimate knowledge of several noteworthy cases of recurring significance which has proven invaluable in private practice.

Since embarking on his career in private practice, Attorney Orth has enjoyed great successes in providing outstanding defense to clients, with an emphasis on aggressive and resourceful motion practice, thorough cross-examination, and tough and determined negotiation. His courtroom achievements include victories at the municipal court, circuit court, and appellate court levels. In addition to numerous outright not guilty verdicts in drunk driving cases, other courtroom victories include:

• Exclusion of drug evidence based on an unlawful pat-down search leading to dismissal of charges.
• Exclusion of drug evidence based on unlawful detention of a motorist leading to dismissal of charges.
• Exclusion of blood and breath alcohol tests in several drunk driving cases due to the failure of law enforcement officers to follow the requirements of Wisconsin’s “Implied Consent Law” leading to dismissal of charges.
• Exclusion of all evidence in several drunk driving cases due to insufficient grounds for traffic stops leading to dismissal of charges.
• Dismissal of both criminal and civil drunk driving charges due to the failure of law enforcement officers and prosecutors to preserve evidence.
• Dismissal of felony drunk driving charges at the preliminary hearing stage by preventing the admission of blood alcohol test results.
• Voiding prior drunk driving convictions resulting in the reduction of felony drunk driving charges to misdemeanor charges, and misdemeanor drunk driving charges to civil traffic charges.

In addition to his courtroom wins, and as a result of his familiarity with and reputation among prosecutors across the State of Wisconsin, Attorney Orth has had compiled an impressive track record of negotiating the reduction or dismissal of countless drunk driving and other charges.

He is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Dane County Criminal Defense Association.