Quarles & Brady

Quarles & Brady LLP is a U.S. law firm with thirteen offices nationwide. According to the National Law Journal's 2012 rankings, it is the 107th largest law firm in the United States, and the second-largest firm in the state of Wisconsin (after Foley & Lardner). The firm also ranked 184th in profit per attorney on the 2010 AmLaw 200 survey.^[1]

Quarles & Brady LLP

Headquarters	411 East Wisconsin Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin
No. of offices	13
No. of attorneys	550 (2023)
Major practice areas	Business Law | Intellectual Property Law | Employment Law | Environment Law | Litigation | Real Estate Law | Health Care Law | Trust & Estate Law | Franchise Law.[1]
Key people	Michael Aldana, Managing Partner and Chair of Executive Committee [2]
Revenue	$349M (2023)[3]
Profit per equity partner	$813,000 (2023)[4]
Date founded	1892
Founder	Joseph V. Quarles Jr., Thomas Wilson Spence & Charles Quarles (Quarles, Spence & Quarles) William McIlvaine & John P. Wilson (Wilson & McIlvaine)
Company type	Limited liability partnership
Website	Quarles.com

History

The Quarles firm was formed in 1892.^[5] In 1974, the Quarles firm & Brady firm merged. At the time, the combined firm had 70 lawyers^[6] In 2000, the firm merged with Streich Lang, a Phoenix, Arizona law firm. After being known in Arizona as Quarles & Brady Streich Lang LLP, the firm shortened its name and is now uniformly known as Quarles & Brady LLP.^[7]

Practice areas

Quarles & Brady has practices in commercial litigation, product liability, environmental law, regulatory compliance, Corporate law & securities law, mergers & acquisitions, private equity, antitrust, tax law, intellectual property, and real estate.^[8]

Notable lawyers and alumni

• John Daniels Jr., philanthropist, businessman and former chairman.
• Tony Earl, 41st Governor of Wisconsin (1983–1986).
• Ron Kind, U.S. Congressman who represented Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district from 1997 to 2023.
• Matt Flynn, former chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and candidate for governor in 2018.
• Joseph V. Quarles Jr., co-founder of the firm, U.S. senator (1899–1905) and U.S. district judge (1905–1911).
• Kwame Raoul, 42nd Attorney General of Illinois (2019–present).
• David S. Ruder, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1987–1989)
• Thomas Wilson Spence, co-founder of the firm, state legislator, died during arguments in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (1912).