B.

Harper

Dickerson

Attorney B. Harper Dickerson is passionate about defending workers’ rights, about uncovering and litigating fraud, and about social justice more broadly. Harper focuses on complex matters involving discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity, including matters of sexual harassment, as well as discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, age, religion, and more. He also focuses on False Claims Act work, using his keen eye for detail to take allegations of fraud from investigation to filing and pursuing qui tam actions.

For Harper, the goal is always to attain justice for his clients and to vindicate and enforce their rights. He works hard to obtain resolutions whenever possible—that way, his clients receive the relief they’re seeking more quickly—which often allows him to obtain remedies for his clients that wouldn’t be available in court. But when settlement proves not to be an option, he is a confident and effective litigator.

During law school, Harper worked with the Neighborhood Law Clinic, defending community members against eviction actions and other actions based in housing discrimination; was recognized as an Outstanding Note and Comment Editor for his service to the Wisconsin International Law Journal; and completed the Labor and Employment Law Concentration with Honors.

Also during law school, Harper worked with the nonprofit Environmental Law and Policy Center, helping to shape its legal response to federal efforts to conserve old-growth forests on public lands; and with Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, performing extensive employment-law research and writing in matters of state, federal, and tribal law.

Harper is a proud Wisconsin transplant. He comes to Milwaukee by way of Austin, Texas; he earned his B.A. in English from UT-Austin (hook ‘em, Horns!), where he also worked as an undergraduate tutor at the University Writing Center, before earning his law degree at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Before he took up the law, Harper also worked as a copy editor for a local newspaper and as an insurance advisor for a small-business insurance startup. In his free time, Harper enjoys writing and making music: He plays piano and guitar and sings, and he has self-produced and released several albums of songs. He also loves going to the movies, cooking, running, and spending time with his cat, Stirfry.