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Not all attorneys spend day and night at their desks or in a courtroom.
Meet Milwaukee attorney Caterina Colón. When Colón isn’t elbows deep in labor and employment law, you might find her on stage.
The Racine native has always had a passion for music and has previously performed in a cover band at weddings and memorial services. Colón, who has been with the firm for five years, said it seemed only natural to join the Husch Blackwell band.
“For a firm of our size to have attorneys come together from across the country to perform on a whim, we had an absolute blast,” Colón said during an interview with the Wisconsin Law Journal.
The niece of Milwaukee Judge Pedro Colón, the younger Colón noted her performance at a recent attorneys-only retreat for the firm.
Colón is in good company.
“In HB’s Labor and Employment practice group, we have many musicians. It’s almost a running joke, to be a labor and employment attorney here you almost have to be a musician,” Colón said.
“It’s a funny coincidence. We’ve noticed as we add more people to our team, they all have music talent. I think people are surprised when they learn attorneys here have a background in music,” Colón said.
Colón noted that while her voice is her primary instrument, she also plays piano, clarinet and cello. She was also a drum major in high school. As an undergraduate student, she performed in flagship choir concert tours across the Eastern Seaboard and Europe. In her free time, she...
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