Who’s Doing What: Firms add to staffs

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ON THE RISE

Milwaukee-office partner Jeffrey Davis of Quarles & Brady LLP was named 2014 a BTI Client Service All-Star by The BTI Consulting Group Inc.

The BTI Client Service All-Stars are an elite group of attorneys, nominated solely and exclusively by clients in a BTI independent study, who are distinguished as delivering the absolute best in client service. Davis is a member of the firm’s commercial litigation practice group and chair of its insurance recovery team, whose practice has a particular focus on insurance coverage litigation. He earned his law degree from The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law.

YOU’RE HIRED

Phillip Addis joined the law firm of Dewitt Ross & Stevens SC, Madison.

Addis practices in creditors’ rights in state courts and in bankruptcy, while also serving as corporate counsel for assorted small businesses, community banks and credit unions. He earned his law degree from Hamline University School of Law.

• Lisa Kleiner Wood joined the Davis & Kuelthau SC’s corporate and real estate practice as a shareholder in its Milwaukee office.

Wood concentrates her practice in commercial and residential real estate, corporate and general business matters, including acquisitions and mergers and sales of businesses. She earned her law degree from Marquette University Law School.

• Brett Schnepper joined Buelow Vetter Buikema Olson & Vliett LLC, Waukesha. Schnepper will be part of the employee benefits team advising both public and private sector clients with benefit, retirement, and welfare plan design and potential issues, advice regarding Internal Revenue Code, COBRA, HIPAA, and ERISA compliance. He earned his law degree in 2013 from Marquette University Law School.