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Tenant Claims Under DATCP 2025

Product ID: CA3865R
Presented By: State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE

This program is an excerpt from Landlord Tenant Update 2025.

The DATCP dispatch

Olivia’s lease at Acme Apartments required a $1,400 security deposit. Three weeks after moving out, she receives a check for $400 with no itemized statement, just a note saying “damages.” Olivia doesn’t recall receiving written notice that she had seven days to inspect the unit to document any preexisting damage or defects before moving in. She turns to you for help. To assist Olivia, you need to understand how Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP) investigates and enforces landlord-tenant rules.

Rental fundamentals

Tenant Claims Under DATCP unpacks Wisconsin’s rules on deposits, fees, disclosures, and prohibited lease provisions. You’ll receive practical guidance for advising clients, drafting compliant agreements, and litigating disputes. Examine how the statutes, administrative code, and case law fit together and ways to use them to your clients’ advantage.

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Pricing

Member $129.00

Non-Member $179.00

Credits

1.5 CLE

Date and Time

Friday, October 24, 202512:00 PM - 1:15 PM CT

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This program is an excerpt from Landlord Tenant Update 2025.

The DATCP dispatch

Olivia’s lease at Acme Apartments required a $1,400 security deposit. Three weeks after moving out, she receives a check for $400 with no itemized statement, just a note saying “damages.” Olivia doesn’t recall receiving written notice that she had seven days to inspect the unit to document any preexisting damage or defects before moving in. She turns to you for help. To assist Olivia, you need to understand how Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP) investigates and enforces landlord-tenant rules.

Rental fundamentals

Tenant Claims Under DATCP unpacks Wisconsin’s rules on deposits, fees, disclosures, and prohibited lease provisions. You’ll receive practical guidance for advising clients, drafting compliant agreements, and litigating disputes. Examine how the statutes, administrative code, and case law fit together and ways to use them to your clients’ advantage.

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This program is an excerpt from Landlord Tenant Update 2025.

The DATCP dispatch

Olivia’s lease at Acme Apartments required a $1,400 security deposit. Three weeks after moving out, she receives a check for $400 with no itemized statement, just a note saying “damages.” Olivia doesn’t recall receiving written notice that she had seven days to inspect the unit to document any preexisting damage or defects before moving in. She turns to you for help. To assist Olivia, you need to understand how Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP) investigates and enforces landlord-tenant rules.

Rental fundamentals

Tenant Claims Under DATCP unpacks Wisconsin’s rules on deposits, fees, disclosures, and prohibited lease provisions. You’ll receive practical guidance for advising clients, drafting compliant agreements, and litigating disputes. Examine how the statutes, administrative code, and case law fit together and ways to use them to your clients’ advantage.

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Evan E. Knupp is a partner in the Milwaukee law firm of Roney & Knupp, LLC. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in political science and his law degree from Marquette University Law School. After graduation, he went into private practice and has worked on a variety of matters, including criminal defense, municipal defense, bankruptcy, foreclosure defense, real estate, and civil litigation. His primary expertise is in landlord-tenant law, having represented tenants, landlords, and management companies. Evan is also a licensed real estate broker and member of the Wisconsin Realtors Association, Rental Property Association, Milwaukee Bar Association, and the State Bar of Wisconsin.

Jessica M. Kramer is the managing partner of Kramer, Elkins & Watt, LLC in Madison. She has been practicing in the Madison area since earning her law degree in 2004. Jessica’s practice focuses 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 that 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. 

Mitch is a Clinical Law Professor and the Director of the UW Law School's Economic Justice Institute and the Neighborhood Law Clinic. In 2004, he co-founded Community Justice Inc., a nonprofit tax-exempt sliding-scale law firm that provides direct legal services to low-income individuals. His practice has focused primarily on the areas of rental housing and employment law. Mitch is the UW Law School's representative on the Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission, former Chair of the Wisconsin State Bar's Public Interest Law Section, and former member of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Board of Governors. 

  • Spot compliance problems before they escalate into DATCP complaints
  • Draft leases that withstand judicial and administrative scrutiny 
  • Advise clients on avoiding violations that trigger automatic penalties
  • Use recent case law to strengthen negotiation and litigation positions
  • Confidently respond to DATCP enforcement letters or tenant demands
  • Protect your clients’ financial interests while staying within legal boundaries
  • New and experienced landlord/tenant lawyers
  • Real estate lawyers
  • Public interest lawyers
  • General practitioners
  • Paralegals 

Evan E. Knupp is a partner in the Milwaukee law firm of Roney & Knupp, LLC. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in political science and his law degree from Marquette University Law School. After graduation, he went into private practice and has worked on a variety of matters, including criminal defense, municipal defense, bankruptcy, foreclosure defense, real estate, and civil litigation. His primary expertise is in landlord-tenant law, having represented tenants, landlords, and management companies. Evan is also a licensed real estate broker and member of the Wisconsin Realtors Association, Rental Property Association, Milwaukee Bar Association, and the State Bar of Wisconsin.

Jessica M. Kramer is the managing partner of Kramer, Elkins & Watt, LLC in Madison. She has been practicing in the Madison area since earning her law degree in 2004. Jessica’s practice focuses 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 that 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. 

Mitch is a Clinical Law Professor and the Director of the UW Law School's Economic Justice Institute and the Neighborhood Law Clinic. In 2004, he co-founded Community Justice Inc., a nonprofit tax-exempt sliding-scale law firm that provides direct legal services to low-income individuals. His practice has focused primarily on the areas of rental housing and employment law. Mitch is the UW Law School's representative on the Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission, former Chair of the Wisconsin State Bar's Public Interest Law Section, and former member of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Board of Governors. 

  • Spot compliance problems before they escalate into DATCP complaints
  • Draft leases that withstand judicial and administrative scrutiny 
  • Advise clients on avoiding violations that trigger automatic penalties
  • Use recent case law to strengthen negotiation and litigation positions
  • Confidently respond to DATCP enforcement letters or tenant demands
  • Protect your clients’ financial interests while staying within legal boundaries
  • New and experienced landlord/tenant lawyers
  • Real estate lawyers
  • Public interest lawyers
  • General practitioners
  • Paralegals 
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