CHICAGO ― Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP Associate, Jennifer M. Ballard, has been named to DiversityMBA Magazine’s “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive & Emerging Leaders.”
The award recognizes exceptional executives who are striving for and/or have reached success within the highly competitive corporate, government and entrepreneurial environments. Award recipients were selected based upon several attributes including position within a publicly or privately held company, a successful entrepreneurial company, or not for profit organization; the size of budget managed; scope of responsibility; community service work; and MBA and/or advanced degree.
As an award recipient, Ms. Ballard will be a guest of honor at the magazine’s Diversity Leadership Awards and Gala on September 17, 2009 in Chicago and will be featured in the magazine’s Summer 2009 issue.
Founded in 1934, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a national law firm with more than 460 lawyers in 24 offices spanning 12 states, including Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
Hinshaw offers a full-service practice, with an emphasis in litigation, business law and corporate transactions, environmental, intellectual property, labor and employment law, professional liability defense, estate planning and taxation matters. The firm represents a range of for-profit and not-for-profit clients in industries that include alarm and security services, construction, financial services, health care, hospitality, insurance, legal, manufacturing, real estate, retail and transportation. Hinshaw clients also include government agencies, municipalities and schools.