TAMPA, FL – May 21, 2018 – GrayRobinson, P.A. announces that shareholder Grace Yang has been named president-elect of the Hillsborough County Bar Association (HCBA). Yang will serve a one-year term before assuming the role of president in 2019. She will be sworn in as president-elect on June 7, 2018.
Yang succeeds President-Elect John Schifino, who will be sworn in as HCBA president.
Yang is a liquor licensing attorney who focuses her practice on multistate compliance issues for alcohol beverage and food vendors and multistate alcohol, hotel, restaurant and occupational licensing work. She also represents alcohol and hospitality industry members before local, state and federal administrative agencies on issues relating to land use, including alcohol-related conditional or special use permitting and variance issues, drafting and negotiating various types of agreements and other matters affecting hospitality industry members.
An active member of the HCBA since 1997, Yang has served in various leadership roles with the voluntary bar organization, including as a board member and editor of the HCBA monthly magazine, The Lawyer.
Yang received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her law degree from Cornell Law School.