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CHICAGO — William H. Frankel, (right), an attorney at the intellectual property law firm Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione and President of Lawyers for the Creative Arts (LCA), Marcia Rolnik, LCA's Legal Director, (center), and William Rattner, Executive Director of LCA, (left), receive a Special Joseph Jefferson Award Citation on behalf of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, who for more than 32 years has provided pro bono legal services to hundreds of Chicago area theatres and theatre artists. The award was presented at the annual Jeff Awards Citations Wing gala on Monday, June 13, 2005 at Park West, Chicago. 

Founded in 1968, the Joseph Jefferson Awards honor excellence in theatrical productions in the Chicago theatre community. Originally chartered to recognize Equity productions, the non-Equity wing of the Jefferson Awards was founded in 1973 to celebrate outstanding achievement in non-union Chicago theatre. 

Lawyers for the Creative Arts provides high quality, pro bono legal services to organizations and individuals in all areas of the arts – visual, literary, performance and entertainment, serving primarily the metropolitan Chicago area, but also all of Illinois and neighboring states. 

Founded in 1917, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione provides intellectual property legal services worldwide. The firm is one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the country, with approximately 150 attorneys who specialize in intellectual property litigation and all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, Internet, unfair competition, related licensing matters and intellectual asset management.