
Additionally, he served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he taught copyright law. From 1999 to 2014, he had been a shareholder at the Wisconsin law firm of Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., where he was a member of the litigation and intellectual property practice groups and led the firm's intellectual property litigation working group. Deininger of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals from 1998 to 1999. He served as a law clerk for Judge David G. He received his Juris Doctor in 1998 from the University of Wisconsin Law School, graduating Order of the Coif.

After graduation, he was a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame, where he taught film and television history. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1979, Master of Arts degree in 1984 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1986 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
