Karen Bauer is Senior Counsel at Amundsen Davis, litigating financial services and banking matters. She joined the firm recently after previous roles at the U.S. Department of Education and the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee. Attorney Bauer sits on the State Bar’s Board of Governors and volunteers with WisLAP as a monitor and peer assistant. She is a Fellow of both the Wisconsin Law Foundation and the American Bar Foundation.
Attorney Bauer has authored articles in Wisconsin Lawyer magazine on student debt and has taught countless CLE courses on student loan issues. She continues to provide student loan advising services at her new firm. Attorney Bauer holds degrees from Milwaukee Area Technical College, UW-Milwaukee, and the University of Wisconsin Law School.
- Confidently interpret repayment and forgiveness options for clients facing time-sensitive decisions
- Provide accurate, current guidance amid federal policy uncertainty
- Identify repayment strategies that reduce long-term financial exposure for borrowers
- Advise individual borrowers on how proposed federal changes may affect their financial planning
- Strengthen your ability to assess when consolidation, plan changes, or PSLF tracking is in a client’s best interest
- Solo and small firm lawyers
- Debtor-creditor and bankruptcy lawyers
- General practitioners
- Anyone paying off student loans