About Dale Michael
Dale Michael Eaton is a companion at Eaton Law, LLP, located at 513 Grant Street in Wausau, Wisconsin. He has been practicing law in Wisconsin since 1993, specializing in medical malpractice, private injury, business litigation, and household regulation. Before establishing his practice in Wausau, Attorney Eaton gained experience with regulation companies in Boston and Milwaukee. Notably, he supplied complete-time litigation support for an outstanding Boston company handling claimant asbestos and tobacco claims. This company controlled severa asbestos and mesothelioma instances related to Massachusetts area shipyards and factories and was co-lead counsel in certainly one of the first profitable prosecutions of tobacco firms for lung cancer cases within the country. In his legal proceedings practice, Attorney Eaton has represented giant insurers in protection of considerable structure defect claims and effectively prosecuted complicated environmental claims towards municipalities and multiple insurers.
He has secured numerous six-figure resolutions in private damage and medical malpractice cases and has experience in business litigation, contract disputes, products legal responsibility, insurance claims disputes, environmental law, and construction defects. In the business sector, Attorney Eaton has negotiated and drafted various contracts, represented small businesses and people in business sales, acquisitions, and buy-outs, and treated monetary work-outs. He has represented Wausau area producers in multi-state agreement legal proceedings and more than one monetary establishments in lending-associated litigation. Additionally, he effectively prosecuted an intellectual property and agreement declare in state and federal court towards California defendants. In family law, Attorney Eaton has been a zealous advocate in divorce and legal separation actions, cohabitation dissolutions, custody and bodily placement disputes, and financial child support and maintenance modifications. He has resolved complex marital property disputes involving property brought to the wedding, gifts, inheritances, and agencies.
Attorney Eaton earned his Bachelor of Arts with honors from Tufts University in 1987 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1993. During law school, he served as Managing Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review and interned for the Wisconsin highest court and the University of Wisconsin System General Counsel. He authored "Recovery for Purely Emotional Distress Under the Warsaw Convention: Narrow Construction of Lesion Corporelle in Eastern Airlines, Inc. v. Floyd," posted in the 1993 Wisconsin Law Review. He is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin and has been involved in a number of community activities, which includes serving at the U.S.
Bank – Wausau Advisory Board from 2006 to 2021, appearing as a Big Brother for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Marathon County in 1996-1997. Holding positions as President and Director of Emily’s Path, Inc. since 2009. He has also been a Board Member and Volunteer for Sara’s Storybook Garden from 2017 to 2025.
