The national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that four partners in the firm, J. William Roberts, Donald L. Mrozek, Charles F. Thomas and Thomas P. McGarry, have been named among the Top 100 Leading Business Lawyers in Illinois by the Leading Lawyers Network. Roberts was named the Number One business lawyer in downstate Illinois. Earlier in 2007, he, Mrozek and Thomas were named to the Leading Lawyer Network’s Top 100 Leading Lawyers in Illinois.
J. William Roberts, Managing Partner of Hinshaw and Chair of the firm's national Business Litigation Practice Group, concentrates his practice in complex civil and criminal litigation, mediation, government relations and employment law.
Donald Mrozek, Chairman of Hinshaw since 1989, engages primarily in business litigation; fidelity, surety and fiduciary bond claims and litigation; and transaction planning and legal risk assessment.
Charles Thomas, a recipient of Hinshaw’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, practices in general corporate and business law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate health care law and general business transactions.
Thomas P. McGarry, Chair of Hinshaw's national Lawyers Professional Liability Practice Group, including its Lawyers for the Profession® practice, focuses his practice on representing lawyers and lawyers’ professional liability insurers.
The top 100 Leading Business Lawyers list is compiled primarily on the basis of the number of peer recommendations of an attorney, consideration of qualitative information and ethical standing of the attorney, and review by the Leading Lawyers Network Advisory Board. The Advisory Board is comprised of those Leading Lawyers who received the highest number of votes for their area(s) of law and/or their region of the state.
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a national law firm with 475 lawyers in 25 offices. The firm offers 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. The firm provides 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. 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.