Brady Williamson is a partner and a co-founder of Capitol Opinion, a Wisconsin based research firm that combines cutting edge research techniques with the political savvy and experience of some of Wisconsin’s top political minds.

Mr. Williamson is also a partner in the law firm of Godfrey & Kahn. Mr. Williamson’s practice in Madison and in Milwaukee involves several disciplines and law firm teams including the Business Finance and Restructuring and Litigation Practice Groups. He is a member of the Firm’s Government Relations Practice Group and focuses this area of practice on election and campaign finance law. He also heads the Firm’s Media Law Group, which represents newspapers, magazines, ISPs and radio and television stations statewide and regionally.

Mr. Williamson has twice represented clients successfully in the U.S. Supreme Court, and he often has appeared in the federal and state appellate courts. On March 28, 1996, the President of the United States appointed him to chair the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, which submitted its 1300-page report to the Congress, the Chief Justice and the President on October 20, 1997.

Mr. Williamson is a 1975 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, and teaches state and federal constitutional law, campaign finance and election law, and bankruptcy law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Mr. Williamson has worked on political and legal issues for several Democratic presidential candidates.

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