Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

• Phone: 312-704-3000
• Website: www.hinshawlaw.com
• About Us:

  At Hinshaw, we value long-term client relationships. That’s why we make it a priority to help contribute to our client’s success, whether that means solving a problem or helping to achieve their goal. How do we do that? First, we don’t believe in leveraging work down to a corps of less experienced lawyers. Rather, all of our partners – our most seasoned lawyers – are hands-on practitioners who regularly interact with their clients on a personal level. We like to think that we are more than just our clients' “lawyers.” We feel we are on the same journey with our clients – to grow their business into a sustainable institution. Sometimes this requires next generation solutions; in other words, a little creativity applied to legal issues or problems. Other times, it requires just purely practical thinking. We do both. Whatever the matter, our advice and counsel are tailored to our clients, which can only come from a strong partnership and deep understanding of their business and objectives.

  Our team of lawyers can provide a wide variety of sophisticated legal advice and counsel. Additionally, since we are located in many of the major cities across the country, we can provide national depth of expertise coupled with a local or regional presence and local or regional knowledge. Across all of our offices, we strive to consistently deliver service at the highest levels of quality and reliability, giving our clients a one-firm approach and giving us the long-lasting relationships we treasure.

  Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a national law firm with more than 460 lawyers in 24 offices. We offer a full-service practice, with an emphasis in litigation, corporate and business law, environmental, labor and employment law, professional liability defense, and wealth preservation and taxation matters. Our attorneys provide services to a range of for-profit and not-for-profit clients in industries that include construction, financial services, health care, insurance, legal, manufacturing, real estate, retail and transportation. Our clients also include government agencies, municipalities and schools.

  Hinshaw was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Chicago. We have offices in 12 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.

Contributing authors from Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP:

Michael P. Downey Partner Michael Downey is a partner in the national Lawyers for the Profession® practice group at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, where his practice focuses on advising lawyers, accountants, and their firms...	Peter R. Jarvis Peter Jarvis practices primarily in the area of attorney professional responsibility and risk management. He advises lawyers, law firms and corporate legal departments in legal ethics, risk management...
Craig T. Liljestrand Craig Liljestrand has extensive experience in the areas of toxic tort, products liability and environmental litigation. He is recognized for his litigation and trial skills in the areas of asbestos, s...	Steven M. Puiszis Steven Puiszis is a well-known and highly experienced trial attorney and mediator with a wide-ranging litigation and trial practice, who stopped counting after having taken more than 40 civil and crim...
David A. Sorensen David Sorensen focuses his practice in the areas of professional liability and products liability defense with particular emphasis on the representation of lawyers, physicians and hospitals, and med...