Mackall, Crounse & Moore, PLC has joined Dewitt Ross & Stevens S.C.

The newly formed DeWitt Mackall Crounse & Moore S.C. will provide clients with enhanced legal services
and efficiencies as well as access to more than 100 attorneys practicing in nearly 30 areas of
law in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

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If you are seeking advice on an insurance coverage issue, DeWitt has attorneys who specialize in providing clients with comprehensive guidance in all areas related to title insurance and litigation. We have a skilled team of real estate litigators with decades of experience representing insured owners and lenders of real estate. Whether you have an issue involving title and priority issues, mechanics liens, easements or any other related area, we are confident our team has the experience to help you navigate your legal issues.

Areas of Focus


  • Agent error and omissions
  • Adverse possession, trespass and encroachment claims
  • Breach of option agreements
  • Coverage litigation
  • Coverage investigations and response
  • Defalcation actions
  • Easement, boundary and access disputes
  • Escrow claims
  • Litigation involving title and priority issues
  • Mechanics lien defense litigation
  • Mortgage fraud, forgery and flipping litigation

  • Quiet title actions
  • Restrictive covenants
  • Right to first refusal claims
  • Survey disputes
  • Title defect litigation
  • Title claim investigation
  • Title conveyance issues
  • Title irregularities
  • Title insurance coverage claims
  • Underwriting
  • Validity and priority liens

Creditor’s Remedies

  • Through a reverse-piercing of the corporate veil in a contested action, our attorneys established the validity and priority of a marital lien encumbering commercial property – in a total amount exceeding $719,000.
  • In a recent $6 million construction loan, we were brought in to correct substantial defects in an attempted foreclosure. DeWitt repaired the defects, uncovered borrower fraud, and recovered equipment wrongfully removed.

Insurance Coverage Litigation

  • Our attorneys represented a paper company against multiple insurers who had denied coverage for hundreds of millions of dollars in exposure from environmental contamination. The case was tried to a jury for five weeks in Brown County Circuit Court and the company won against all of its insurers on all of their policies. The decision was affirmed by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
  • DeWitt collected millions of dollars for a Wisconsin city after its insurers had denied coverage for the costs of re-mediating former city landfills.
  • We successfully defended an insurance company in a $1.7 million coverage action.

Lien Priority Disputes

  • In an approximately $18 million office and residential condominium project, our attorneys recently defended a purchase money lender in an action brought by another purchase money lender. Our insistence on questioning shared assumptions revealed the earlier delivery of the mortgage to DeWitt’s client, which ultimately led to the resolution of the action.
  • Our litigation practice regularly involves contested priority disputes between lenders, or between lenders and other secured lien creditors, including holders of judgment liens, tax liens, martial liens, attorney’s liens and mortgages. We frequently deal with actual and constructive notice cases, equitable subrogation cases, equitable liens, lien circuity, and marshaling.

Mechanic’s Liens

  • Our Title Insurance Group has extensive involvement in large multi-party mechanic’s lien cases. We have avoided or defeated millions of dollars worth of mechanic’s lien claims.
  • We recently defended a multi-million dollar mechanic’s lien foreclosure action by a general contractor and most of its subcontractors against commercial property significantly reducing and eliminating those mechanic’s liens for our insured lender. In a similar action, we represented one of our title insurance underwriters, we successfully avoided coverage for several million dollars of lien claims by advancing a rarely used and novel title insurance coverage defense focusing on the definition of lender loss.
  • DeWitt led the mechanic’s lien defense against the general contractor in one of the largest mechanic’s lien cases in recent Minnesota history. In a $70 million hotel and condominium project in downtown Minneapolis, our attorneys formulated and argued a successful apportionment defense – splitting liens up among various portions of the project, and then splitting them further among unsold condominium units.

For more information

If you would like more information please contact any of the attorneys listed, or Ron Ragatz at rrr@dewittllp.com or 608.2​52.9351.

 

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Get to know us

DeWitt LLP is one of the ten largest law firms based in Wisconsin, with an additional presence in Minnesota. It has more than 130 attorneys practicing in Madison, Greater Milwaukee, Green Bay and Minneapolis in over 30 legal practice areas, and has the experience to service clients of all scopes and sizes.

Partners

We are an active and proud member of Lexwork International, an association of mid-sized independent law firms in major cities located throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia and an active member of SCG Legal, an association of more than 140 independent law firms serving businesses in all 50 state capitals and major commercial centers around the world.

Awards

Best Lawyers 2013 – 2021
Super Lawyers 2021
 Compass Award 2012
Top 100 Lawyers: National Trial Lawyers Association

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