Mike Levey Honored by State Bar of Wisconsin with Pro Bono Lifetime Achievement Award

Mike Levey, a retired Quarles & Brady partner who served as the firm’s national pro bono partner for more than a decade, is being honored by the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Legal Assistance Committee with its first Lifetime Achievement Award. Levey will be recognized June 11 at the organization’s annual Member Recognition Celebration, along with other award recipients.

In a news release announcing this year’s awards, the State Bar said, “This Lifetime Achievement Award… is the first time that the committee has made this distinction. Levey’s accomplishments ‘make him an outlier in pro bono community,’ according to the committee, and this award celebrates him as he begins his retirement.”

During his time leading the firm’s pro bono efforts, Quarles established significant pro bono partnerships with a variety of national organizations, including Legal Services Corporation, the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program, Kids in Need of Defense, National Immigrant Justice Center, HIAS, Sanctuary for Families, ALIGHT, and Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Beyond his work at Quarles, Levey also has been actively involved with organizations such as the Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund, Congregation Shalom and the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, and recently was appointed to the Legal Services Corporation’s Leaders Council