The national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP has long been recognized as preeminent in representing and counseling lawyers. Today, the firm announces the addition of yet another nationally recognized legal ethics all-star, Peter Jarvis.
“Our exceptional team continues to attract the top talent in the attorney disciplinary and legal ethics areas,” said Ronald Mallen, Chair of Hinshaw's national Lawyers for Professionals practice group. “We are honored to have Peter join as his significant experience and contributions to the practice area add to our existing strength in this area."
Peter Jarvis, formerly a partner with the Oregon-based law firm Stoel Rives, LLP, is engaged in the practice of litigation, with emphasis on attorney disciplinary and legal ethics matters, as well as general contracts and business issues. He is a frequent writer and speaker on legal ethics issues, and his practice includes advising attorneys with legal ethics questions and defending attorneys accused of legal ethics violations.
Mr. Jarvis will maintain an office in Portland, Oregon, at 101 SW Main Street, Suite 915, Portland, OR 97204.
Among other publishing responsibilities, Mr. Jarvis was Editor-in-Chief and author of four chapters of "The Ethical Oregon Lawyer," a treatise on ethics and professionalism originally published by the Oregon State Bar in 1991 and reprinted in 2003; and he was co-author of a fifth chapter and supplement added in 1994, and a sixth chapter and supplement added in 1998. He is also a co-author of "Oregon Rules of Professional Responsibility Annotated" (4th Ed 1997, updated and reprinted in 2003), a former ethics columnist for The Multnomah Lawyer, a newsletter of the Multnomah Bar Association, and a current columnist for the electronic column entitled American Legal Ethics found on the website of the Litigation Section of the Oregon State Bar at http://www.osblitigation.com/columns.htm. His speaking engagements include general or “public” CLEs, as well as CLEs for individual law firms and legal departments. In October 1991, Mr. Jarvis received the President’s Membership Services Award from the Oregon State Bar for his ethics work. In August 1993, he received the Harrison Tweed Special Merit Award from ALI-ABA for his ethics work. In 1995, Mr. Jarvis became a member of the American Law Institute.
Regarding his professional associations, Mr. Jarvis is former chair, Oregon State Bar Committee on the Rights of the Handicapped; former member, Oregon State Bar Legal Ethics Committee; former member, Oregon State Bar Ad Hoc Committee on Attorney Advertising; former member, Washington State Bar Association Rules of Professional Conduct Committee.
Mr. Jarvis’ educational background includes the following: J.D., M.A., economics, Yale University, 1976; Editor, Yale Law Journal; B.A. magna cum laude, economics, Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 1972.
This past February, Hinshaw added prominent “lawyer’s lawyer” Anthony E. Davis to this team. Based in New York City, Davis is recognized nationally for his work in counseling large law firms on risk management and professional responsibility issues. He joined an already existent all-star team of legal liability attorneys, led by the foremost expert in legal malpractice, Ronald Mallen. Mallen is author of the five-volume treatise published by West Publishing, "Legal Malpractice," 5th Ed.
In addition to Mallen and Davis, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP’s lawyers' liability practice team of 35 lawyers includes Thomas P. McGarry (Chicago), a recognized leader in the area of representing lawyers and firms in liability defense and professional discipline and Chair of the firm’s Lawyers Professional Liability practice group; and Thomas L. Browne (Chicago), who serves as Hinshaw's general counsel and has extensive experience counseling lawyers and law firms.
Hinshaw has developed at www.lawyeringlaw.com extensive web-based resources for professional liability insurers and their lawyer clients in the area of risk management. In addition, the firm is the premier sponsor of the "Legal Malpractice and Risk Management Conference," held annually in March in Chicago (see www.lmrm.com for more information).
The nature and scope of the firm’s “Law of Lawyering” practice encompasses the following:
Law firms "cradle to grave"
Hinshaw handles a myriad of issues affecting firms, including law firm formation (i.e., partnership and business structure and documentation); compensation structure; partnership disputes; partnership mergers and lateral hiring arrangements; and law firm break ups and dissolutions.
Counseling and Advising Law Firms and Law Departments
These services include:
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Risk management services, including education programs, risk management audits, and developing policies, procedures, forms and manuals for improving law firm operations and profitability.
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Advising law firms as outside ethics counsel, including conflict of interest resolution and management, development and structure of ancillary businesses, marketing, advertising and solicitation of clients, supervision of lawyers and support staff, and multijurisdiction and multidiscipline practices.
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Representing firms and attorneys in responding to professional grievance and disciplinary complaints.
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Advising and representing lawyers and law firms in bar admission, including movement of lawyers among jurisdictions.
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Advising general counsel on improving management over disbursed in-house law departments, and establishing and maintaining effective control over outside counsel, including case and engagement oversight and billing control.
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a national law firm with 475 lawyers in 25 offices coast-to-coast. The firm offers a full-service practice, with an emphasis in commercial and defense litigation, corporate, environmental, employment and construction law, as well as the representation of professionals in their liability matters. The firm provides services to a range of clients in financial services, construction, health care, not-for-profit, insurance, legal, manufacturing, real estate, transportation and other industries. Firm clients also include government agencies, municipalities and schools.
Hinshaw was founded in 1934. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, and maintains offices in 12 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.