​Twenty Quarles & Brady Attorneys Selected As 2017 Illinois Super Lawyers

CHICAGO, Ill. — The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP today announced that Illinois Super Lawyers magazine has named 20 of its attorneys among the top attorneys in Illinois for 2017. Additionally, 10 Chicago-based attorneys were named to the 2017 Illinois Rising Stars list.

Super Lawyers^®, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service that recognizes outstanding lawyers who have gained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual, statewide selections are made using a multi-phased process that includes independent peer nominations, peer evaluations, and research. No more than five percent of total lawyers in a state are selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers.

The following attorneys from Quarles & Brady's Chicago office were selected for inclusion in the 2017 Illinois Super Lawyers magazine (* indicates lawyers who have been listed for more than ten years):

• Faye B. Feinstein – Creditor Debtor Rights
• Eric J. Fuglsang – Real Estate
• Robert L. Gamrath, III – Real Estate
• Edward J. Hannon – Tax
• Kirk A. Hoopingarner – Estate & Probate
• Steven V. Hunter – Business Litigation
• John A. Klages – Employment & Labor*
• Janine M. Landow-Esser – Environmental
• Paul L. Langer – Insurance Coverage
• Philip V. Martino – Bankruptcy: Business
• Adrianne C. Mazura – Employee Litigation: Defense
• Robert F. Messerly – Real Estate
• Jeffrey Piell – Employment & Labor
• E. King Poor – Business Litigation
• Janice E. Rodgers – Nonprofit Organizations
• Leonard S. Shifflett – Business Litigation
• Everett S. Ward – Real Estate
• D. Scott Watson – Employment & Labor
• Theodore I. Yi – Real Estate
• Richard W. Young – Intellectual Property Litigation

Super Lawyers Rising Stars recognizes the top up-and-coming attorneys in the state who are 40 years old or younger, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less. No more than 2.5 percent of total lawyers are selected for inclusion in the Rising Stars list.

The following Quarles & Brady attorneys from the firm’s Chicago office were named to the 2017 Illinois Rising Stars list:

• Nicole A. Bashor – Intellectual Property
• Mark W. Bina – Health Care
• Travis J. Eliason – Bankruptcy: Business
• Christopher J. Fahy – Intellectual Property Litigation
• Michael H. Fleck – Intellectual Property
• Maria Frenn Kallmeyer – Immigration
• Reema Kapur – Employment Litigation: Defense
• Jodi Patt – Nonprofit Organizations
• Nicholas P. Schmidbauer – Intellectual Property
• Christopher J. Zdarsky – Business Litigation