Jewish Family Services Milwaukee presented the first-ever Chair’s Community Caring Award to Marquette University Law School for its outstanding commitment to helping the less fortunate in the community. Jewish Family Services Board Chair Nathan Fishbach and Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Rebecca Dallet presented the award to Marquette Law School Dean Joseph Kearney at its annual meeting Monday, Sept. 14. Kearney accepted the award on behalf of the school, professors and students.

The Chair’s Community Caring Award honors individuals and organizations in the community who embrace the JFS core value “to care for those among us in need, not as a burden, but as a mitzvah (obligation).” In presenting the award, JFS said Marquette Law School is a worthy recipient as it serves as an example to the community through the active implementation of programs that have the goal of “being the difference” in the lives of the less fortunate.

Simandl & Prentice, S.C. announces that Brian A. Price and Stefanie Carton have joined the firm.

Price earned his J.D. from Marquette University Law School, graduating cum laude. He is licensed to practice in both state and federal courts in Wisconsin and Illinois, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. His practice focuses on employment litigation and counseling. Price has more than fifteen years of experience in employment law.

Carton received her J.D. from Marquette University Law School where she was vice-president of the Hispanic Law Student Association. Carton is fluent in Spanish.  Her practice focuses on employment counseling and litigation.

The law firm of Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. announces the addition of four associate attorneys to its Corporate and Business Planning Practice.

Jonathan Bundy, Madison office, received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin. He interned with Justice Louis Butler at the Wisconsin Supreme Court and with the Wisconsin Attorney General’s Office.

Alfredo Cantoral, Milwaukee office, received his law degree from Marquette University. He is a former legislative advisor for the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors and global sales manager for a nationwide wireless network.

Gretchen Cleveland, Madison office, received her law degree from the University of Wisconsin where she was active in the development of the UW Pro Bono Project, the Criminal Appeals Project, Editor in Chief at the Wisconsin Law Review, and Managing Articles Editor for the Wisconsin Journal of Law Gender & Society.

Rebecca Mitich, Milwaukee office, received her law degree, magna cum laude, from Marquette University. She also taught English in Poland for two years while earning her master’s degree in education.

The firm also announces it has hired Paul J. Eberle to become the Chief Executive of the law firm. Eberle has a long history of successful entrepreneurship and becomes one of the first non-lawyers to serve as Chief Executive of a major Milwaukee/Madison law firm.

Eberle, a Milwaukee native, comes to WHD as a founder and past president of a hardware, software, services and leasing firm, Capital Data, Inc. in Milwaukee.

Eberle will work through the end of October alongside Mark Miller, the firm’s current CEO, who announced his departure earlier this year after eight years of leading WHD. Eberle will begin his new position on November 1.

Arthur Gollwitzer III, a partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group at Michael Best & Friedrich LLP in Chicago, is one of 40 committee members selected by Judge James F. Holderman, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, to review e-discovery practices and develop principles to make discovery of electronically stored information (“ESI”) more efficient and affordable. The committee included subcommittees focusing on evidence preservation, early case assessment, and attorney education. Gollwitzer serves on both the preservation and early case assessment subcommittees.

The national law firm of Quarles & Brady announces that Michael S. McCauley, an attorney and partner in the firm's Milwaukee Office, was inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) on Oct. 2, 2009.  The induction took place at the annual meeting of the College in Portland, Maine.

The ACOEL is a professional association of distinguished private and public sector lawyers who practice in the field of environmental law.

McCauley has practiced environmental law for over 32 years. He served as chair of Quarles & Brady's National Environmental Law Group from 1985 to 2007. His practice focuses on Clean Air Act, Climate Change and Sustainability issues and other complex environmental compliance matters. McCauley is a graduate of the Iowa Law School.

The law firm of Vance, Wilcox & Short SC, Fort Atkinson, announces the addition of associate Christopher D. Martin.

Martin joined the firm after graduating from Marquette University Law School in May 2009.

Martin joins attorneys James J. Vance, Bradford W. Wilcox and John H. Short, who have practiced law together for over 30 years.

Joel Hirschhorn, Hirschhorn & Bieber, P.A., was elected for fellowship in the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial attorney society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American Lawyers.

The law firm of Godfrey & Kahn announces the addition of Megan E. Bern to the Securities Practice Group in the firm’s Milwaukee office.

Prior to joining Godfrey & Kahn, Megan was an attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Chicago. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude. Megan is licensed to practice in the state of Illinois and not yet licensed in the state of Wisconsin.