Quarles & Brady: Attorney elected to board of Waukesha County Community Foundation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Caroline Letiecq, Communications Manager

caroline.letiecq@quarles.com

(602) 229-5377

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (July 21, 2010) – The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP is pleased to announce that Kathleen A. Gray, a partner in the Firm’s Milwaukee office, has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Waukesha County Community Foundation.

Ms. Gray, a trusts and estates attorney, focuses her practice in the areas of estate planning for executives, professionals and business owners, and in probate and trust administration. Her practice includes a focus on estate, gift and fiduciary income taxation as well as marital property. Ms. Gray has extensive experience working with the special issues which arise in cases of blended families. She was named a 2009 and 2010 FIVE STAR: Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth ManagerSM, listed in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2001, selected for inclusion in the 2005-2009 Wisconsin Super Lawyers® lists in Estate Planning & Probate, and is a member of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and the Milwaukee Estate Planning Forum. She is also chair of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation’s Women and Girls Fund. Ms. Gray earned her law degree, magna cum laude, from Marquette University, her M.S. from the University of Illinois and her B.A., summa cum laude, from Marquette University.

The Foundation is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of Waukesha County to provide grant support to charitable organizations. The intent of the Foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of community needs through grantmaking activities, management of endowment funds to ensure ongoing grant availability, and management of assets for major community projects like public art and community libraries and recreation facilities.

Quarles & Brady LLP is a full-service law firm with more than 450 attorneys practicing from offices in Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Chicago, Ill.; Naples and Tampa, Fla.; and Milwaukee and Madison, Wis. The Firm offers an array of legal services to corporate and individual clients that range from small entrepreneurial businesses to Fortune 100 companies. Additional information about the Firm may be found at http://www.quarles.com.