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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2004
Champaign Attorney Receives Award
From Illinois State Bar Association

Betty Y. Jang, of Hinshaw & Culbertson's Champaign office, is one of two lawyers who have been named "Young Lawyer of the Year" by the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA).

The other winner is Franco A. Coladipietro, an attorney with the Chicago law firm of Amari & Locallo.

Selected by the ISBA Young Lawyers Division, the two were honored at the awards luncheon June 18, during the ISBA Annual Meeting at The Abbey in Fontana, Wis.

Jang, a member of the ISBA Committee on Minority and Women Participation, has been a panel moderator for the annual Lawyers Workshop and a speaker during the Illinois Supreme Court's town hall forum on professionalism issues.

An adjunct professor of trial advocacy at the University of Illinois College of Law, she is helping to plan a three-day symposium on the roles of Asian American lawyers and law students and their relationship to the profession.

Chair of the East Central Illinois Women Attorneys Public Service Committee, Jang chaired the Women Everywhere Service Project and organized a benefit to raise funds for a women's shelter. She chaired the Champaign County Bar Association Pro Bono Committee for two years.

The 30,000-member ISBA, with offices in Springfield and Chicago, provides professional services to Illinois lawyers, and education and services to the public.