Keane, Brian

Dean Strang defends people accused of crimes in state and federal courts. He also has a broad appellate practice. Hurley, Burish & Stanton allows him to continue that practice with a wonderful group of lawyers. The firm’s integration of sophisticated practice in business and individual services, civil lawsuits, mediation, and the full range of criminal defense makes a rare firm in Wisconsin.

Before joining the firm, Dean was the first Federal Defender in Wisconsin. He established and supervised offices in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Madison. Prior to that experience as a public defender in federal court, Dean practiced for 15 years in Milwaukee. For most of that time, he defended men and women in criminal cases.

In addition to his state and federal criminal trial work, Dean has offered oral argument in more than 20 appeals, including in the United States Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and three other federal circuits. He has briefed many more cases on appeal in both state and federal courts. In his second appearance in the United States Supreme Court, Dean was co-counsel and co-author of the respondent’s brief in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), the landmark decision that declared unconstitutional mandatory federal sentencing guidelines.

Dean also has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School for more than five years. He has authored three law review articles and several shorter published articles. Dean was one of the founders of the Wisconsin Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 1994, and for well over a decade actively has opposed reinstatement of capital punishment in Wisconsin. In 2004, he was elected to the American Law Institute.