Peoria and Chicago, Illions, October 4, 2004 -- Retired Circuit Judge Richard Eagleton, now counsel to Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, was elected to the board of Directors of the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys at the annual meeting of the Association in Ashville, North Carolina.
Chicago-based Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, is the only law firm in the country with as many as three former U.S. Attorneys. Eagleton and J. William Roberts of Springfield were U.S. Attorneys in Central Illinois and Thomas Berg was a U.S. Attorney in Minnesota.
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.