Quarles & Brady: Vidal elected to Centro Legal board

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Caroline Letiecq, Communications Manager

caroline.letiecq@quarles.com

(602) 229-5377

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (June 24, 2011) — The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced that Valerie P. Vidal, an attorney in the Firm’s Milwaukee office, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of Centro Legal.

Ms. Vidal is a member of the Commercial Litigation group. She represents a variety of clients in complex civil disputes. Ms. Vidal also has extensive experience representing individual pro bono clients in both state and federal court actions involving civil rights violations, tenant/landlord disputes, False Claims Act allegations and municipal violations. Ms. Vidal is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School and received her bachelor’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Centro Legal is a nonprofit legal services organization that serves a diverse group of Milwaukee County clients in family law and criminal misdemeanor defense cases. Their mission is to improve access to the court system and assure quality legal representation for clients regardless of income, ethnicity, or native language by providing legal education and representation to low-income clients who are in personal transition out of poverty toward safety and self-sufficiency.

Quarles & Brady LLP is a full-service law firm with 425 attorneys practicing from offices in Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Chicago, Ill.; Naples and Tampa, Fla.; Milwaukee and Madison, Wis.; and Shanghai, China. 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.