The 2022 first place winner of the Lincoln Award Legal Writing Contest is Daniel C. Katzman, a partner at Katzman & Sugden, LLC, Belleville, who wrote “A Brave New World of Digital Payments for Lawyers?” Daniel's article will appear in the February issue of the Illinois Bar Journal.

Second place is Amy E. Frantz, a senior associate at Purcell & Wardrope, Chicago, who wrote “When Does My Biometric Privacy Expire?”

Third place goes to Jake Crabbs, of Chicago, associate legal counsel at Cooper Cargill Chant, P.A., for “Alternative Fact Pleading: A Broken Kettle of Fish.”

The first-, second-, and third-place winners received $2,000, $1,000, and $500 respectively. They were among 19 manuscripts submitted in the 2022 contest, which was sponsored by the ISBA Young Lawyers Division and open to YLD lawyer members.

Contest judges included Justice George Bridges, Elgin; Hon. Diane E. Winter, Waukegan; Deborah A. Benzing, Chicago; John S. Callas, Rock Island; and Mark J. Ballard, Mt. Vernon.

Details about the 2023 Lincoln Award Legal Writing Contest will be announced in the spring of 2022 on the Contest's webpage.

Congratulations to the 2022 Lincoln Award Legal Writing Contest winners!