Husch Blackwell declined to say Thursday whether it knew before this week that one of its partners had pleaded guilty to a battery charge, prompting a June 26 reprimand by the Wisconsin Supreme Court and leading to his ouster from the firm this week.

Jeffrey McIntyre, a commercial litigator, was charged with misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct in January 2018. Prosecutors said he and two women at a downtown Madison, Wisconsin, bar were unhappy when closing time came around, and that one of the women pulled down her pants and urinated on the floor, laughing at the bar manager.

The manager followed the trio to an apartment complex, where McIntyre punched him in the nose, according to the reprimand's account.

McIntyre pleaded guilty to the battery charge last May and was entered into the state's first offenders program, which allows defendants to avoid criminal convictions by participating in programs such as drug and alcohol assessments, community service and counseling, according to the Dane County District Attorney's Office. A deferred prosecution agreement he reached with prosecutors is due to end on Sept. 20.

Separately, McIntyre was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated in March 2018, and he pleaded guilty in October. It was his third drunken driving conviction since 2003, according to the June reprimand.

The ABA Journal reported that Husch Blackwell removed McIntyre's profile from its website on Tuesday.

“We were surprised and disappointed to learn of Jeff's misconduct and the resulting Supreme Court reprimand,” a firm representative wrote in an emailed statement. “Obviously, our firm does not condone or tolerate his behavior. Jeff has withdrawn from the firm, and as of today, he is no longer affiliated with Husch Blackwell.”

The firm declined to comment on whether it knew of McIntyre's cases as they played out in court during the last year and a half, or whether the firm offered any programs for employees related to alcohol or other mental health issues.

In addition to the battery case and facing Wisconsin DUI charges in 2014 and 2018, court records show that McIntyre and his then-wife were engaged in divorce proceedings from mid-2016 through mid-2017.

McIntyre joined the Madison office of Kansas City, Missouri-based Husch Blackwell in 2016 when Husch merged with his 150-lawyer Wisconsin firm, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek.

Marcus Berghann, the attorney who represented McIntyre in the battery and most recent DUI case, did not respond to requests for comment.

McIntyre is the latest partner at a large law firm to end employment after alcohol-related misconduct. In 2017, ex-U.S. Attorney Stephen Wigginton left Am Law 200 firm Armstrong Teasdale after pleading guilty to a DUI charge in Illinois. (Last month, the U.S. Justice Department also acknowledged that Wigginton was also the unnamed former federal prosecutor accused of sexual misconduct in a May 2017 DOJ inspector general's report.)