Clark Hill Attorney Ray J. Koenig III Nominated to Serve On the Chicago Bar Foundation’s Board of Directors

CHICAGO –

Clark Hill Member Ray J. Koenig III was selected to serve on the Chicago Bar Foundation’s (CBF) Board of Directors. The CBF works to ensure that everyone in the Chicago area has equal access to justice, particularly the low-income and disadvantaged people who most critically need the protections of the legal system. The CBF Board of Directors is made up of a diverse group of attorney and judges. The board’s responsibilities include: setting strategic goals, directions, and policies for the CBF; raising funds and develop sufficient resources to carry out the CBF’s goals and directions; building community awareness and support for the CBF’s mission; and providing oversight of the CBF’s finances, grants, programs, and operations. Koenig will serve a one year term ending in July 2014.

For more information about the CBF Board of Directors, please visit:

http://www.chicagobarfoundation.org/board-and-staff/board-of-directors.

Koenig is the managing member of Clark Hill’s Chicago office and a member in Clark Hill’s Litigation Practice Group. He practices in the areas of probate litigation, trust litigation, fiduciary litigation, elder law, estate planning and estate administration, with an emphasis on will, trust, guardianship, and advance directive contests and other fiduciary litigation. Koenig has represented individuals, families, financial institutions, medical institutions, and governmental organizations in all areas of his practice. Koenig has extensive trial, appellate and mediation experience in state and federal courts.

The Chicago Bar Foundation mobilizes our legal community around a cause that is a distinctive responsibility of the legal profession: ensuring that everyone in the Chicago area has equal access to justice, particularly the low-income and disadvantaged people who most critically need the protections of our legal system. As the charitable arm of The Chicago Bar Association, the CBF’s work is made possible by the generous contributions of thousands of dedicated lawyers and legal professionals, more than 200 law firms and corporations, and many other committed partners.