Jones Lang LaSalle Elects Roger T. Staubach to its Board of Directors

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Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:00am EDT

CHICAGO, July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
(NYSE: JLL) today announced that Roger T. Staubach has been elected as a
member of its Board of Directors.
    Mr. Staubach is the Executive Chairman of the firm's Americas region.  He
assumed that role on July 11, 2008, when Jones Lang LaSalle completed the
previously announced transaction to merge its operations with The Staubach
Company, the leading real estate services firm specializing in tenant
representation in the United States.
    Mr. Staubach founded The Staubach Company in 1977 and served as its
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until June 2007, when he became its
Executive Chairman.  A 1965 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Mr.
Staubach served for four years as a Navy officer.  He then joined the Dallas
Cowboys professional football team, from which he retired in March 1980.
    Mr. Staubach is a member of the board of directors of AMR Corporation, the
parent company of American Airlines, and Cinemark Holdings, Inc., the third
largest movie exhibitor in the United States, and is also the Chairman of the
Host Committee for Super Bowl XLV, which will be held in North Texas in 2011.
He has received numerous honors for his leadership in business, civic,
philanthropic and athletic activities, including the 2006 Congressional Medal
of Honor "Patriot Award" and the 2007 Horatio Alger Award.  He has also been
inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame and named a "Distinguished
Graduate" by the United States Naval Academy.
Sheila Penrose, Chairman of the Jones Lang LaSalle Board of Directors,
said, "We warmly welcome Roger to our Board.  He brings a strong combination
of entrepreneurial and large public company experiences that will enhance the
strength of our Board and its value to the organization."
Colin Dyer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jones Lang LaSalle,
added, "Roger has been highly successful in developing the significant
corporate relationships that his firm brings to ours.  We look forward to the
professionalism, drive and marketing sophistication that he will contribute to
our Americas management as well as to our Board."
    Mr. Staubach will initially serve a term that will expire at the Company's
2009 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.  His appointment brings the Jones Lang
LaSalle Board to a total of nine Directors.  In addition to Ms. Penrose and
Mr. Dyer, the other current members of the Board are Henri-Claude de
Bettignies, Darryl Hartley-Leonard, Lauralee E. Martin, Alain Monie, David B.
Rickard and Thomas C. Theobald.
SOURCE  Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated

Gayle Kantro, +1 312 228 2795, gayle.kantro@am.jll.com, or Betsy Peck, +1 703
287 0463, betsy.peck@am.jll.com, both of Jones Lang LaSalle
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