Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan brings in an attorney with a rarified designation. Milwaukee-based law firm Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan has hired Eido Walny as a senior associate in its wealth-management group.

"We are pleased to welcome Eido to Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan," says the firm's managing partner Gerardo Gonzalez. "His extensive experience in estate planning will serve as a tremendous asset to our firm and clients."

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Walny comes to Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan as a newly certified as an Accredited Estate Planner and as an Estate Planning Law Specialist (EPLS).

To become an EPLS -- the highest designation for an estate planning attorney recognized by the American Bar Association -- an attorney must pass a comprehensive examination in estate-planning law. But to qualify to sit for the exam, an attorney has to have earned at least 36 continuing legal-education credits within the last three years, needs recommendations from at least five colleagues and has to have devoted at least one-third of his practice to estate planning for a minimum of five years.

Fewer than sixty attorneys have attained the EPLS designation.

Walny joins Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan from Brookfield, Wisc.-based Schott, Bublitz & Engel. Earlier he worked at Menomonee Falls, Wisc.-based Niebler, Pyzyk, Klaver & Wagner and at Milwaukee, Wisc.-based Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren. -FWR

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