Think of Milwaukee, and you're likely to come up with Miller beer, Koss Corp. headphones and Harley-Davidson motorcycles. But behind those well-known brand names is a local manufacturing economy that's still working hard to emerge from the economic doldrums.

"It's taken a long time to move out of the Great Recession, and the same can be said for the legal market," said Jay Rothman, Milwaukee-based chairman and chief executive officer of Foley & Lardner. "It's still choppy markets." Manufacturing is rebounding, Rothman said, and increased natural gas exploration is an encouraging development.

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