Jessica M. Kramer is the managing partner of Kramer, Elkins & Watt, LLC in Madison. Jessica has been practicing in the Madison area since earning her law degree in 2004 and focuses her practice on commercial real estate with an emphasis on representing landlords, including manufactured home communities, throughout Wisconsin. She provides landlords with comprehensive representation, including drafting customized lease packages, prosecuting evictions, defending administrative actions such as fair housing complaints, and providing day to day advice on tricky tenant issues. Jessica’s approach to her practice involves providing the right balance of appropriately aggressive advocacy clients desire and the practical advice they need. Jessica is a trial attorney by training and regularly litigates landlord-tenant matters, employment matters, and business disputes in both trial courts and courts of appeals.
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