Firm Announces 2009 Much Shelist Founders' Award Recipient

On Thursday, January 28, 2010, the firm presented the Much Shelist Founders' Award to Inspired Youth, a tutoring/mentoring program located on Chicago's northside. Representatives from the firm, including co-founder Morrie Much (Principal, Real Estate) and Carrie M. Risatti (Principal, Real Estate), were on hand to award the $7,000 grant in conjunction with the Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth Program. Created in 2005 to honor the firm's five founders in celebration of its 35th anniversary, the annual award recognizes an up-and-coming tutoring/mentoring program that has been in existence for five years or less. The Lend-A-Hand organization distributes approximately $200,000 in grants annually to exemplary programs, raises community awareness of the importance of mentoring to disadvantaged youth, and recruits lawyers and others in the legal community as volunteers to support local groups.

Inspired Youth, which also received the Much Shelist Founders' Award in 2005, 2006 and 2008, is a five-year-old tutoring/mentoring program that provides assistance with reading, writing, arithmetic and homework for low-income children in the Uptown/Edgewater community.

For more information on Lend-A-Hand, visit www.lawyerslendahand.org.