Attorneys
Jen Hanna
Graduating cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School, Attorney Jen Hanna is the founder of Holevoet & Hanna, LLC. Having gained significant experience through serving countless clients, we often refer to Jen as our Yoda. Not only is she exceptionally insightful, but she also manages to be patient while everything tries to grab her attention. [..]
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Melissa Young
As a double-badger, Attorney Melissa Young is truly dedicated to her community. Before joining our firm, Mel provided free legal help to incarcerated parents in their family law matters through the Frank J. Remington Center Family Law Project. She also served as an advisor on youth violence issues and chaired the UW-Madison Advisory Committee for [..]
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Elisabeth Fletcher
Elisabeth Fletcher is originally from the Fox Valley area in Northeast WI. She received her bachelor’s degree from UW Oshkosh in 2010, and graduated with her J.D. from the UW Law School in 2013. While she was in law school, she worked for the Frank J. Remington Center Reentry Project, providing a wide range of [..]
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About
J. Steven House represents clients accused of crimes or traffic violations throughout Wisconsin. He graduated with honors, magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1999 and began legal practice with the Knox County Public Defender’s Community Law Office in Knoxville, Tennessee where he worked in the Misdemeanor, Felony, DUI and Trial divisions as well as handling appeals. In 2006 Steven began private practice in Wisconsin while still handling appellate matters in Tennessee. Steven House handled drunk driving cases exclusively for several years as well as working for small law firms which focused on impaired driving defense.
This intensive focus on impaired driving offenses provided the experience necessary to obtain numerous dismissals, reductions and amendments of drunk driving charges to lower level offenses. During this time he became intimately familiar with the nationally standardized field sobriety tests and the numerous factors that can lead to false results from those as well as blood alcohol tests. As a private attorney, Steven House persuaded a state supreme court to overturn a jury verdict convicting a client of felony aggravated assault and aggravated reckless endangerment stemming from an attempted “suicide by police officer.” This appellate success was followed by successfully petitioning the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2010 to review the decision of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in State vs. Janet A. Conner, 2009 WI App 143, challenging the jury instructions as well as the trial and appellate courts’ interpretation of the aggravated stalking law.
Recent appellate successes include overturning the conviction of a client on three counts of distributing a schedule 2 narcotic to a police informant, obtaining a new trial in Jefferson County, and suppression of evidence obtained by search warrant in the appeal of a burglary conviction in Rock County. The House Law Office continues to focus solely on criminal and traffic defense at the trial and appellate levels with an emphasis on impaired driving and drug offenses. In hiring Steven House you will have an attorney who cares about his clients, is passionate about civil liberties, and who understands that the law is an ever changing field that requires persistent study. You will also have an attorney who will personally handle your case rather than passing it on to a junior assistant to review and draft motions or even appear in court with you.