• 30% Business Litigation
  • 20% Business Transactions
  • 20% Employment / Real Estate
  • 20% Municipal / Banking / Bankruptcy
  • 10% Personal / Estate Planning
  • Civil Trial Advocacy, National Board of Trial Advocacy, 1994

University of Wisconsin – Madison – Law School, Madison, Wisconsin, 1978 J.D.
Honors: Cum Laude

University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1973 B.S.
Major: Mathematics
Minor: Psychology

  • Wisconsin, 1978
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1980
  • U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin, 1981
  • Twice Selected “Best of the Bar”
  • AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell (highest rating for competency and ethics)
  • Wisconsin Super Lawyer List
  • State Bar of Wisconsin, 1978 – Present
  • Outagamie County Bar Association

CHARLES D. KOEHLER

Partner  |  Appleton, Wisconsin
Phone: 920-739-7366 | 800-559-7366
Fax: 920-739-6352


Attorney Chuck Koehler has been a Partner with the Herrling Clark Law Firm for over 25 years as Financial Chairman. From 2013-2014 he served as the Firm’s President. Chuck’s practice is concentrated in areas of business and personal financial matters, business and real estate transactions, municipal law, employment law, and related matters in these areas of law. Chuck also handles a wide variety of disputes, mediations, and lawsuits including matters involving real estate, employment issues, creditors’ rights, municipal matters, banking matters, partnerships, limited liability companies, corporate law, purchase, and sale of businesses, bankruptcy, and estate and business transition planning and strategies.

Transactional matters within Chuck’s experience include areas such as forming corporations, negotiating and drafting business contracts, employment agreements, partnership agreements, municipal ordinances, and resolutions, stock agreements, eminent domain, leases, restrictive covenants, non-competition agreements, condominium declarations, bank loan documentation, security agreements, wills, and trusts, real estate purchase contracts, agreements for the sale, purchase, and merger of businesses, articles, and bylaws, real estate easements, contracts, covenants, and purchase and sale agreements.

Chuck has been certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy based upon testing, as well as actual litigation and jury trial experience. Chuck’s trial experience includes a wide range of disputes, including administrative hearings, mediations, arbitrations, and lawsuits in State and Federal courts.

Chuck was rated by an international service as having “very high to preeminent” legal ability and “very high” ethical standards as established by confidential opinions of members of the Bar in Northeast Wisconsin. He also was rated as one of the “Best of the Bar” in a survey of lawyers conducted by Fox Cities Magazine. Since 2014, Chuck has been named a Wisconsin Super Lawer, placing him among the top 5% of attorneys in Wisconsin.

Chuck is currently the Chairperson of District 6 of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Fee Arbitration Program, served on a select committee of the State Bar regarding multi-disciplinary practice, and serves on the Board of Directors for Community Real Estate and Personal Property Foundation, Inc. which is a supporting organization of the Community Foundation of the Fox Valley. He also serves on several other Boards of Directors.

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It was always great to know that Chuck had my back. He was always very professional and detailed oriented which was very reassuring. All attorneys involved said that Chuck was the best and he is!

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Mr. Koehler always gave us a deep sense of caring with strong moral values. He often gave awareness of right or wrong and advised on ethical fairness, with final decisions up to us. Mr. Koehler, we believe, goes above and beyond what expectations anyone would have. An exemplary job, well done!

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Over 60 years of requiring professional counseling services, I have never been better represented for legal counseling services than those provided by Mr. Chuck Koehler. He is absolutely top of the line. He excelled in an area of state statutory documentation that is seldom utilized involving garnishment procedures related to money judgment by financial institutions. His research and resulting effort resulted in a very rewarding conclusion.

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