The Trusted Adviser
April 2013 | Volume 6 · Number 3

IN THE NEWS:

Team ATG Overall Winner of Lawyers Feeding Illinois Campaign

We recently received the official word from our friends at Lawyers Feeding Illinois — Team ATG won the Hunger Relief Partner Award and the Large Law Firm Category for the most food and money raised!

The combined efforts of the ATG members and staff totaled $25,395 in funds and 732 pounds of food. These contributions will go a long way toward supporting Feeding Illinois in its effort to stock the eight regional food banks in our state. In total, Lawyers Feeding Illinois raised 1.25 million meals to feed 1.4 million residents across the state. We’d like to offer a special “thank you” to the ATG members whose offices served as drop sites. Another special thanks to ATG top member firms Codilis and Associates and Pierce and Associates, each of whom made sizeable financial donations to Team ATG. We could not have done it without you.

We can all be proud of the meaningful work we did to help curb the very serious problem of hunger in Illinois. Thank you so much for your generous support of this great cause. Congratulations to all the lawyers and groups who made this campaign a success. Read the LFI Campaign Wrap-up for details.

The competition winners will be honored at a ceremony on May 8 at the ISBA’s Chicago Regional Office. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, whose office supported the campaign, will be on hand to help present the awards:


Feeding Illinois Masthead

Lawyers Feeding Illinois Awards

Award Law Firm or Organization
City
Funds Raised Pounds of Food Raised
Hunger Relief Partner (Overall) and Large Law Firm Award Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund, Inc.
Champaign/Chicago
$25,395 732
Hunger Relief Partner (per capita) DuPage Solos
Villa Park
$2,540  
Mega Bar Association Award DuPage County Bar Association
Wheaton
$23,682 23
Large Bar Association Award Champaign County Bar Association
Champaign
$8,740  
Medium Bar Association Award Vermilion County Bar Association
Danville
$2,231 84
Small Bar Association Award Warren County and Henderson County Bar Associations $1,425 97
Mega Law Firm Award Heyl, Royster, Voelker and Allen, P.C.*
Peoria
$12,849 2,547
Medium Law Firm Award Webber and Thies, P.C.*
Urbana
$7,557 471
Small Law Firm Award Fombelle and Fombelle, LLP
Forsyth
$3,050  
Best Law School Award (per capita) Northern Illinois University College of Law
DeKalb
$920.58 103
Best Government/Non-Profit Award Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation
East St. Louis
$6,801 144
Food Bank Award Eastern Illinois Food Bank    

* = ATG member firm

This was a cooperative effort among lawyers from all corners of Illinois. Illinois judges supported LFI by placing collection containers for non-perishable food items in courthouses in all parts of the state. Additional financial support for the project came from Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund and ISBA Mutual Insurance Company. Numerous local, ethnic and special bar associations also participated. Information about the campaign is available at www.lawyersfeedingil.org.

Thanks for your participation.

[Last update: 4-23-13]

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