About Stephanie M.
Stephanie M. Rock earned her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2019 after completing undergraduate studies in criminal justice and business management at Lakeland College in 2015. She arrived in law school having already spent time around courtrooms and client interviews, and she used her legal education to expand that practical experience. Her academic record is marked by clinic and student practice placements that exposed her to appellate, immigration, and public defender work.
During law school Rock served in a series of student lawyer roles that shaped her early approach to practice. In 2018 she worked on the Federal Appeals Project and contributed to brief writing and appellate research. That same year she took placements with the Community Immigration Law Center and the Sheboygan County Public Defender’s Office. In 2017 she served with Legal Assistance to Institutionalized Persons, gaining direct experience with incarcerated clients and institutional procedures. Those clinic positions required courtroom appearances, client counseling, and collaborative case development.
After law school she continued into practice in Wisconsin. She is a member of the Wisconsin bar and maintains memberships in a range of professional organizations, including the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Sheboygan County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. Those affiliations reflect the mix of criminal defense and immigration work that runs through her background.
At Birdsall Obear and Associates Rock handles matters that draw on both her clinic work and her courtroom experience. She works on criminal defense matters and represents noncitizen clients on immigration-related issues. Her early appellate exposure informs her approach to case strategy and brief preparation. She has experience preparing pleadings, conducting client interviews, and representing clients in court proceedings.
Colleagues describe her as someone who moves between investigation and advocacy without hesitation. She spends time on research and drafting, and then takes that work to hearings and client meetings. That combination has become a practical hallmark of her work style.
Outside casework Rock participates in local bar activities and continuing legal education through her professional associations. She contributes to the practice community in Sheboygan and across Wisconsin through those memberships and occasional volunteer work tied to her clinic roots.
She continues to practice in Wisconsin, where her current work centers on criminal defense and immigration-related representation.
