CHICAGO ― Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP recently hosted a fundraising event for the Amazon Rainforest Conservation Society (ARCS), an organization that facilitates and supports activities to strengthen rainforest ecosystems, which play a vital role in the global environment. Organizers of the event, which centered around a focus group of lawyers, businesspersons and others, had several goals. First was for attendees to advise the ARCS about how to convincingly convey the importance of the organization’s mission to the public. The second aim was to obtain support for the ARCS from lawyers, law firms and the business community.
The ARCS is headed by David Meyer, a former Partner with Hinshaw. Mr. Meyer left the practice of law to devote his full-time efforts to conservation. He now works to actively involve Chicago's leading law firms and their clients in the vital “green” movement.
The December 2008 issue of
Chicago Lawyer magazine, in an
article titled, “Around the water cooler: Protecting the rainforest,” includes details on the event and the ARCS. The article also quotes Dan Boho, a Partner in the firm’s Chicago office.
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.