Chase Student and Alumni Receive Pro Bono Awards

Chase Law News, Cincinnati.com, Northern Kentucky.com, June 4, 2007

Three Chase alumni and one Chase student were recently presented pro bono awards at the Northern Kentucky Volunteer Lawyers’ 2007 Pro Bono Awards Luncheon. John A. Fortner ’82 received the Pro Bono Attorney of the Year award, and William Knoebel ’89 and Gwen Vice ’82 of Knoebel & Vice accepted the award for Outstanding Firm. Trista M. Portales, a third-year, part-time law student at Chase, received the Pro Bono Law Student Award, which was sponsored by Deters, Benzinger & LaVelle.

The awards luncheon was held on May 24 at the Summit Hills Country Club.