Who’s Doing What: Hupy donates to MJC; attorneys named to Best Lawyers list

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Hupy donates $50,000 to Milwaukee Justice Center

Hupy and Abraham President Michael Hupy recently donated $50,000 to the Milwaukee Justice Center.

Hupy is a founding member and the principal benefactor of the MJC. He has already donated $100,000 to help transform MJC from an idea into a reality.

Located in the Milwaukee County Courthouse, MJC has helped more than 20,000 people in the past two years.

Schmidt joins Ogletree Deakins

Kelsey Schmidt has joined the Milwaukee office of Ogletree Deakins as an associate. She earned her law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School and focuses her practice on employment law matters.

Attorneys named to Best Lawyers list

Kohner, Mann and Kailas attorneys Robert Gegios, Matthew Gerdisch, Christopher Kailas, Samuel Wisotzkey and David Chartier have been selected by their peers as The Best Lawyers in America.

Gegios has also been named as a Best Lawyers 2016 Antitrust Law Lawyer of the Year for Milwaukee.

WHD elects board members, shareholders

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek has announced the election of Gina Carter, John Emanuel and Eric Lenzen to its board of directors, and has also announced the re-election of Andrew Jones to its board.

Jones has served on the board since 2012. Fellow board members include Patrick Howell, Daniel Miske and Joseph Pickart.

Erik Eisenmann, Patrick Harvey and Philip Koutnik have been elected shareholders.

Coon named to Best Lawyers list

Hall Render’s Larry Coon was recently named the Best Lawyers 2016 Milwaukee Health Care Lawyer of the Year, and Pat Walsh was named the Best Lawyers 2016 Milwaukee Project Finance Lawyer of the Year.

Seventeen other Hall Render attorneys were also named to the list: Liz Callahan-Morris, Art deVaux, Mary Gaughan, Scott Geboy, Terry Heath, Doug Long, Steve Lyman, John Render, John Ryan, Mark Sabey, René Savarise, Dave Snow, Wally Stromberg, Gerry Stovall, Scott Taebel, Bill Thompson and Gregg Wallander.

3 WHD attorneys named Best Lawyers

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek’s Ross Anderson, Richard Lewandowski and Philip Miller were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2016 list.

Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren has 96 attorneys make list

Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren has announced that 96 of the firm’s attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2016 list.

Within Reinhart’s group of 96 selected attorneys, nine were named Lawyer of the Year.

Quarles & Brady gives back to the hungry

Quarles & Brady has announced that its first firm-wide summer hunger campaign raised equivalent money to provide nearly 130,000 meals to hungry children and families across its hometown office locations.

The initiative was coordinated by Quarles Cares, the firm’s program that supports charities and causes across each of its offices. The primary areas of focus are projects related to hunger and education. Organizations that benefited from the firm’s efforts include A Just Harvest in Chicago; Shepherd Community Center in Indianapolis; Second Harvest Foodbank in Madison; Hunger Task Force in Milwaukee; St. Matthew’s House in Naples, Fla.; Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Phoenix; End 68 Hours of Hunger in Tampa; Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona in Tucson; and the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C.