Naperville resident to receive Public Service Award from State Bar

Kaitlin E. Barclay, of Naperville, a third-year law student at Northern Illinois University College of Law in DeKalb, will receive the Law Student Division's Public Service Award from the Illinois State Bar Association at the organization's 138th Annual Meeting on Friday, June 20, at the Grand Geneva Resort in Lake Geneva, Wis.

Nominated for the award by law professor Jeffrey Parness, Barclay has been especially active in the Public Interest Law Society and during the past year, spent up to 10 hours a week, volunteering and fundraising on behalf of the organization. She has also volunteered in the Kane County State's Attorney's Office in the Domestic Violence unit and the Kane County Bar Association's Feed My Starving Children program.

During the summer of 2012, she was the NIU student representative on Prairie State Legal Services' fundraising committee where she raised funds and organized student volunteers for a "Battle of the Bands" event.

The 32,000-member ISBA (isba.org), with offices in Springfield and Chicago, provides professional services to Illinois lawyers, and education and services to the public through a website (illinoislawyerfinder.com), consumer brochures, and distribution of legal information.