Warren E. Buliox

Biography

Warren E. Buliox has extensive experience representing and counseling small and large businesses (including Fortune 50, 100, and 500 Corporations) on a wide array of employment-related issues. His experiences range from providing counsel and representation to employers on discrimination claims to working hands-on with employers to develop creative and proactive solutions to eliminating or reducing risks.

He has defended or provided counsel on claims involving allegations of race and color discrimination, sex discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, disability discrimination, arrest and conviction record discrimination, and disparate impact discrimination based on credit history and incarceration rates/statistics. He has also analyzed and provided counsel on countless employment policies and handbooks, trained management level employees on various topics, and analyzed and drafted employment contracts and separation agreements.

Mr. Buliox has tried a dozen jury trials and has handled in excess of 250 hearings. He has first chaired numerous motions and employment discrimination hearings before the Wisconsin Equal Rights Division and has obtained summary judgment in every federal case litigated through dispositive motions. His experience includes the successful defense of a multitude of administrative complaints before state agencies and the EEOC and lawsuits filed in federal courts across the country.

In addition to his employment work, Mr. Buliox has served as a Public Service Special Prosecutor for the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office, where he handled numerous bench trials, motions, and hearings. He also first chaired several jury trials from start to finish, and has experience with voir dire, contentious jury selection processes, trial motions, jury instructions, and other related activity. Further, Mr. Buliox has represented and provided counsel to a federally recognized Indian Tribe on various issues, including, but not limited to, sovereign immunity, gaming, constitutional issues, subrogation rights in connection with a self-funded employee health plan, the Indian Civil Rights Act, and the Indian Gaming Regulation Act.

Mr. Buliox has served as a panelist or sole presenter at several CLE seminars on employment law issues. He has also authored numerous articles on cutting edge employment issues published nationally and throughout Wisconsin (in the Wisconsin Law Journal). Articles published in national media include a featured article, “ADA Litigation after Gross,” in DRI’s For the Defense employment law issue (March 2010) and “Can Your Employee Secretly Record Conversations with Management?” in the National Bar Association’s newsletter, Commercial Law Connection (Fall 2010).

Mr. Buliox was named to the “2014 Annual Midwest Region Hot List” by Lawyers of Color, which recognizes early- to mid-career minority attorneys excelling in the legal profession. He was nominated and selected for inclusion in The Milwaukee Business Journal’s 2014 “40 Under 40 Awards”. The program features 40 Milwaukee-area individuals under the age of 40 who are making a difference in their professions and communities. Mr. Buliox was selected for inclusion in the Wisconsin Rising Star℠ list for 2013 and 2014 Wisconsin Super Lawyers®, recognition granted to fewer than 2.5% of attorneys in the state. He was also named a “2012 Up and Coming Lawyer” by the Wisconsin Law Journal. He is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, the American Bar Association, DRI, NAACP, and is the former president and current board member of the Wisconsin Association of African-American Lawyers. He is an alumnus of Future Milwaukee, a community leadership development program affiliated with Marquette University’s College of Professional Studies.

Mr. Buliox received his B.A. in English, magna cum laude, from Alabama State University and his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law, where he was on the Dean’s List and graduated with Order of Barrister honors. He is admitted to practice in Wisconsin and U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin.

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

• Syracuse University College of Law, J.D., Dean’s List, Order of Barrister Honors
• Alabama State University, B.A., English, magna cum laude

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin
• U.S. District Courts, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin

In the News

• 3/30/2015 - Greg Wesley and Warren Buliox Speaking at ACC Wisconsin Conference
• 1/5/2015 - Warren Buliox and Julie Bittner Promoted to Partner
• 11/6/2014 - Five Milwaukee Attorneys selected for inclusion in 2014 Wisconsin Super Lawyers® and Rising Star℠ lists
• 7/22/2014 - Warren Buliox Named to Lawyers of Color Hot List
• 1/10/2014 - Warren Buliox Selected as a 40 Under 40 Winner
• 11/1/2013 - Five Milwaukee Attorneys selected for inclusion in 2013 Wisconsin Super Lawyers® and Rising Star℠ lists
• 7/29/2013 - GSH Hosted Marquette Law School Summer Youth Institute Students
• 9/19/2012 - Warren Buliox named “2012 Up and Coming Lawyer”

Publications