At a dinner last week in Madison celebrating new developments at the University of Wisconsin Eye Research Institute, former Gov. Jim Doyle surveyed the room at the Maple Bluff Country Club and turned to his old friend David Walsh. ?This is what you?re going to do, isn?t it?? Guessing Walsh?s next move might be a popular parlor game for Wisconsin?s movers and shakers and the people who watch them, now that word is getting out that the longtime Foley & Lardner attorney is retiring from the firm.
Walsh is on the UW Hospital board and helped raise considerable sums for retina research at UW-Madison. He?s become involved outside Wisconsin, serving on the board of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, and one hard reality is there is always more to do. ?I?m retiring,? he said, ?because of these other obligations.?