Tomislav Kuzmanovic practices in the area of litigation, with an emphasis on commercial litigation, construction liability, premises liability, product liability, transportation law, toxic torts, complex litigation, and international and human rights law. Representative examples of Mr. Kuzmanovic’s trial experience include:

• Harvey v. Western Diversified, Milwaukee County, Judge Michael Skwierawski. Insurance bad faith and toxic tort.
• Pettit v. Vassos, Kenosha County, Judge Michael Fisher.  Professional liability/architect.
• Pilkington-Theesfeld v. Bornstein, Walworth County, Judge John Race. Premises liability/equine. 
• Prosecutor v. Delalic, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Command responsibility.
• Weimer v. Dynaweld, Jefferson County, Judge William Hue. Product liability/trailer. 
• Zahran v. Cleary, Federal District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Judge Robert Warren, Judge Charles Clevert. Breach of contract and fraud case. 
• H. K. Mallak, Inc. v. Fairfield FMC Corp., Federal District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Judge Lynn Adelman. Premises liability/security.
• Heritage v. Intermatic, Inc., Federal District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Judge William Griesbach. Product liability/timer.
• Schulz v. Grunau Project Development, Inc., Milwaukee County, Judge Daniel Noonan. Construction defect.
• Jenkins v. American United Taxicab, Milwaukee County, Judge David Hansher. Commercial vehicle.
• Wells-Valentine v. Active Foam Products, Inc., Milwaukee County, Judge Jeffrey Kremers. Commercial vehicle.

Mr. Kuzmanovic’s appellate experience includes:

• Briggs v. Farmers Ins. Exchange, 2000 WI, 234 Wis. 2d 178.
• H. K. Mallak, Inc. v. Fairfield FMC Corp., 209 F.3d 960 (7th Cir. 2000).
• Malinowski v. DeLuca, 177 F.3d 623 (7th Cir. 1999).
• Carney v. White, 843 F. Supp. 462 (E.D. Wis. 1994), aff’d 60 F.3d 1273 (7th Cir. 1995).

Mr. Kuzmanovic joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in June 1988. He is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

He is very active professionally, with membership in the American Bar Association and the Wisconsin Bar Association. He is also a member of the Milwaukee Bar Association, and was appointed in 2005 to a three year term to its Bench/Bar Civil and Courts Committees.

Among his litigation-focused professional affiliations are the Civil Trial Counsel of Wisconsin, the Defense Research Institute, Conference of Freight Counsel, Association of Defense Trial Attorneys, Litigation Counsel of America and American Inns of Court, Thomas E. Fairchild Inn.

Mr. Kuzmanovic is also an active member of the Association of Defence Counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ADC-ICTY), and in 2009 was elected to its five-person Executive Board for a one-year term as one of two vice-presidents. The ADC-ICTY Executive Board is responsible for the administration, finance, policy and representation of the ADC-ICTY before the Tribunal and also before the United Nations Security Council.

Mr. Kuzmanovic was one of five Hinshaw attorneys to be included in April 2008 issue of Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition. Since 2005 he has been named annually to the Super Lawyer list in the area of Business Litigation by Wisconsin Super Lawyers and Rising Stars magazine. In 2006, he was profiled as the subject of "A Small Part to Play," an article in Super Lawyers describing his litigation practice and his human rights work on behalf of independent Croatia.

In January 2006, he was appointed as a Judicial Court Commissioner by Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Mary Kuhnmuench, Branch 5. This appointment requires the approval of the Chief Judge, and two thirds of the Circuit Court Judges. Mr. Kuzmanovic has appeared on ”International Focus,” a weekly television broadcast sponsored by the Institute of World Affairs at the University Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He an active speaker to professional and community groups around the country. Among his representative presentations are:

• “Present and Future Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” 39^th National American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2007.
• Moderator, “National Leadership Conference of Bosnian and Croatian Americans,” Chicago, Illinois, March 2006.
• “Contract Law for Contractors,” Project Manager / Project Executive Peer Group Meeting, Gilbane Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 2005.
• "An Overview of Construction Defect Claims," legal issues affecting the construction industry, Appleton, Wisconsin, 2004. A commercial vehicle presentation to Transguard Insurance Company in Naperville, Illinois, 2003.
• “Trying a Case Before the ICTY,” American Inns of Court, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2003.
• “Premises Liability Update,” Marriott International Regional Claims Office, Des Plaines, Illinois, 2002.
• “Insurance Fraud/Investigation and Claims Handling,” Farmers Insurance Group Regional Claims Conference, Brookfield, Wisconsin, 1999.
• “Bad Faith Litigation in Wisconsin,” NBI, 1997.
• “A Shield for Strict Liability - the Substantial Modification Defense,” Civil Trial Counsel of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1997.
• “Defense of Sexual Misconduct Cases in Wisconsin,” Boy Scouts of America, Irving, Texas, 1996.
• “Defense of § 1983 Claims,” Specialty Risk Services, ITT Hartford, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1996.

Mr. Kuzmanovic received the Milwaukee Young Lawyers Association Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to Community in 1991. He was recognized by the City Council of the Croatian city of Slavonski Brod for his contributions to its defense in 1992.

Mr. Kuzmanovic was awarded the Order of the Croatian “Pleter” for his contributions toward Croatia’s independence by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman in 1996. From 1994 to 2002, he served as a board member and Vice President of the Croatian American Association, a Washington, D.C.-based Croatian advocacy group. He is a member of the National W Club of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, an organization whose members must have earned a varsity letter while an athlete at the University of Wisconsin.

Among his many service activities, he worked with students at Oak Creek High School as a coach for the State Bar Mock Trial Competition and coaches two children’s soccer teams in his Greendale community.