Hatten Receives KBA Pro Bono Award

Shook Associate Madison Hatten has been named a 2017 recipient of the Kansas Bar Association Pro Bono Award, given annually to recognize a lawyer or law firm for providing direct legal services to the poor or to charitable organizations serving the poor. Since February 29, 2016, Madison has performed 15 adoption hearings for 26 children, the majority of whom were provided permanent homes from the foster care system. 

Previous recipients include Shook Partners Gene Balloun and Zach Chaffee-McClure; Shook, Hardy & Bacon won the award as a law firm in 2001.