Monks, Steve

Bill's practice areas include probate and trust administration, estate planning, elder law, and employee benefits and executive compensation. 

Since becoming a lawyer in 2001, Bill has focused his practice on counseling individuals, families and businesses.  Bill has assisted clients with everything from simple wills and powers of attorney to addressing more complicated planning situations and sophisticated probate and trust administrations. Bill also provides advice in the areas of elder law and addressing the legal issues that impact individuals with special needs.

Bill’s diverse interests and expertise have also assisted him in serving a wide range of public and private sector employers on legal issues related to employee benefits and executive compensation, including fully-insured and self-insured health insurance, health flex and other welfare benefits, and executive compensation and deferral in qualified and non-qualified plans.

Bill serves as a director of the Boys and Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley and the L.E. Phillips Senior Center. Bill is also a member of the Eau Claire County and Wisconsin Bar Associations, and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA).

In 1998, Bill graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay and then received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School, cum laude. Bill is originally from the Chippewa Valley and now resides in Eau Claire with his family.