JOHN D. CLAYPOOL

Partner  |  Appleton, Wisconsin
Email: jclaypool@herrlingclark.com
Phone: 920-739-7366 | 800-559-7366
Fax: 920-739-6352

John Claypool concentrates his practice in the area of personal injury litigation. He is a board certified by the National Board of Trial Advocates. He has also been consistently named a Wisconsin Super Lawyer, placing him in the top 5% of attorneys in Wisconsin. Since 2010, he has been given special accolades as one of Wisconsin’s Top 50 attorneys for 14 years in a row.

In addition to having tried over 150 cases before juries, John has settled cases in excess of $3 million. In the fall of 2015, after a week-long jury trial in Winnebago County, John earned a $1.3 million verdict for a client on a complicated premises liability claim. Regardless of the size of the verdict, though, John is a zealous advocate for his clients.

John is also an ardent believer in the right to a trial by jury and is frequently asked to speak on this topic. He has presented at countless legal seminars.

Throughout John’s career, he has taken on large corporations on behalf of his clients, including Walmart, Walgreen’s, WE Energies, AT&T. ShopKo, Stanley, Black & Decker, and Ford Motor Company, just to name a few.

Because of his professional acumen and reputation, John is frequently asked to serve as a mediator in personal injury cases. John was rated by an international service as having high to very high legal ability and very high ethical standards as established by confidential opinions of the Bar in Northeast Wisconsin.

John is very involved in the Fox Valley Community. He has also served on the Wisconsin State Bar’s Board of Governors and the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Association for Justic. Locally, John served as a past-president of the Outagamie County Bar Association and sat on the Board of Director for C.O.T.S.