Ruder Ware, Wausau, is Wisconsin’s largest law firm north of Madison. We provide some of the state’s best-known national and international companies with prompt, practical and affordable solutions to a wide variety of legal challenges. George L. Ruder opened the firm in 1920. Wausau, at the time, was home to many of the state’s most successful entrepreneurs who made their fortunes in the thriving lumber and paper industries. At first, the new firm specialized in real estate and probate. A decade later, however, George Ruder began focusing on business law—a direct response to his clients’ needs for better legal counsel on the complex new business regulations created by the New Deal. With legal guidance from the Ruder Ware firm, many small and medium sized businesses throughout northern and central Wisconsin grew quickly. Today we have many clients who are small businesses as well as many clients who have become major companies serving national and international markets.
