Otis receives CVLS Distinguished Service Award

The national law firm of Quarles & Brady announced that Donna L. Otis, an attorney in the Firm's Chicago office, has been selected as the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award by Chicago Volunteer Legal Services ("CVLS"). The award was presented at CVLS' 2010 annual ceremony on November 10, 2010 Ms. Otis is a member of the Firm's Trusts & Estates group. Her experience includes preparing wills and trusts; financial and health care powers of attorney; traditional bypass trust and marital deduction planning, generation-skipping transfer tax planning, probate of decedents' and disabled adults' estates and trust administration; and Guardian Ad Litem for minors' and adult estates. She earned her law degree from John Marshall Law School and her undergraduate degree from Roosevelt University. CVLS is the first and pre-eminent pro bono civil legal aid provider in Chicago. Their staff and 3,000 volunteer attorneys provide a wide range of free legal services and offer the most comprehensive, efficient and cost-effective civil legal aid and representation to Chicago's poor and working poor. 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. Additional information about the Firm may be found at www.quarles.com.