Ms. Hitchcock Cross has been concentrating on employment, business, and civil rights law for more than 30 years. Her clients include CEO's, CFO's, COO's and other executives, managers, and personnel directors; college administrators and professors, school administrators, principals and teachers; judges, court commissioners, assistant district attorneys and public defenders; fire chiefs, police chiefs, police officers, chief deputies and deputy sheriffs; physicians, nurses, and health care administrators; accountants and others with fiduciary responsibilities, such as stockbrokers; office workers, blue collar workers, truckers, service employees; and all other executives, managers, supervisors, and employees, both in the private and in the federal, state, and municipal public sectors; and consultants, entrepreneurs, temporary employees, and independent contractors.

In addition to litigation, she also focuses on counseling clients through pre-termination intervention, severance agreements, non-compete agreements, employment contracts, commission disputes, and job counseling. Often such counseling and negotiation includes deferred compensation and key employee agreements, stock options and grants, special tax considerations for highly paid individuals involved in severance transactions, and consulting arrangements.

Ms. Hitchcock Cross has a reputation for handling matters where extraordinary remedies are required, such as injunctive relief, declaratory judgments, mandamus, writs of prohibition, and other emergency equitable actions.

She has decades of experience representing labor unions in both the private and public sector, including in law enforcement, healthcare, construction trades, industrial employees, service employees, and others.

Ms. Hitchcock Cross also chairs the Firm's Business Law Center. She advises on business start-ups, contract bids, personnel, key employee contracts, vendor and customer collection disputes, and all manner of commercial litigation. She also represents community organizations and co-operatives.

Her communications background has led her to defamation, slander, and libel litigation and resolution.

Ms. Hitchcock Cross has a concentration in whistleblower actions. She recently completed a Federal False Claims Act action that resolved for nearly $13 million. She regularly pursues Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower actions and resolutions.

She handles education law matters which involve special consideration of tenure, plagiarism, teacher and administrator contracts. She also represents schools in start-up and on-going legal and personnel needs.

Attorney Hitchcock Cross is a frequent speaker and writer in areas of interest in employment, business, university law, and community organizations.

Public Service

Small Business Venture Fund Committee of the City of Milwaukee City Council, review and approval of grant proposal for business start-ups and expansion for job creation and retention for more than a decade.

Milwaukee Public Schools: Taught classes on job rights for students entering the workforce.