The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP today announced that two of its associate attorneys in Tucson have been admitted as partners as a result of excellent performance and the promise of generating strong future value for the firm and its clients.

They are:

Elizabeth Fella, who practices in the firm’s Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group. She specializes in representing local and national companies in complex contract disputes, complex financial restructuring negotiations, and related litigation.

Yakov Sidorin, who practices in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group, handling all areas of IP counseling for a variety of clients.

“Quarles & Brady has been around for almost 125 years, and we owe much of our success to attracting the best and brightest to join us and then investing in their professional development throughout their careers,” said Firm Managing Partner Fred Lautz, who supervises the partnership across the firm’s nine nationwide locations from its founding office in Milwaukee. “We see our future in the faces of these young and successful lawyers, and I’m confident that we’ll be around for at least another 125 years.”

“Given the intensely competitive nature of the modern legal industry, it’s more important than ever to promote associates with extreme care,” added Firm Chair Kimberly Leach Johnson. “All new partners must be outstanding representatives of the profession, so we’re excited to add these 17 exceptional achievers to our ranks.”

The attorneys’ new status as partners became effective on October 1.