Quarles & Brady Attorneys Named Best Lawyers’® 2016 “Lawyer of the Year”

The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP  announced that 13 of its attorneys have been selected by their peers as “Lawyers of the Year” in The Best Lawyers in America®.

Each year, Best Lawyers compiles its list of “Lawyers of the Year.” Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is so honored. Lawyers with this designation are chosen based on peer-review assessments conducted with thousands of leading lawyers each year. Receiving this honor reflects the respect a lawyer has acquired among other leading lawyers in the same practice areas throughout the same communities.

The following Quarles & Brady attorneys were named in their respective practice areas designated by Best Lawyers:

Chicago, Ill.
• Janice E. Rodgers—Non-Profit/Charities Law

MILWAUKEE, Wis.
• David B. Bartel—Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants
• David R. Cross—Litigation – Patent
• James D. Friedman—Litigation – Banking and Finance
• Brian G. Lanser—Public Finance Law
• Thomas P. McElligott—Natural Resources Law
• Thomas J. Phillips—Tax Law
• Robert D. Rothacker—Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

PHOENIX, Ariz.
• Don P. Martin—Litigation – Real Estate
• Matthew Mehr—Banking and Finance Law

TAMPA, Fla.
• William F. Hamilton—Litigation – Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)

TUCSON, Ariz.
• Susan G. Boswell—Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• James F. Morrow—Banking and Finance Law

About Best Lawyers
Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

About Quarles & Brady LLP
Quarles & Brady is a full-service AmLaw 200 law firm with more than 475 attorneys offering an array of legal services to corporate and individual clients that range from small entrepreneurial businesses to Fortune 100 companies, with practice focuses in health care and life sciences, business law, data privacy and security, and complex litigation. The firm has offices in Chicago; Indianapolis; Madison; Milwaukee; Naples, Florida; Phoenix; Scottsdale; Tampa; Tucson; and Washington, D.C. Additional information can be found online at quarles.com, as well as on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.