PORTLAND, Ore. ―
Allison D. Rhodes, a Partner in the
Portland,
Oregon, office of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP has been elected as a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers’ Board of Directors. Her term runs through 2012.
The Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers is an independent national organization of lawyers concentrating in the fields of professional responsibility and legal ethics.
Ms. Rhodes focuses her practice in legal professional responsibility with particular emphasis on legal ethical matters, attorney disciplinary defense and lawyer mobility. She also handles complex conflict of interest and multiple representation questions, as well as attorney-client privilege matters and work product doctrine matters.
Ms. Rhodes advises individuals and entities, from solo practitioners to large firms and in-house legal departments in sophisticated professional responsibility matters for a variety of legal fields, including transaction and litigation practices. She also advises lawyers and law firms in partnership and corporate structuring, lawyer dissociation and lateral hiring. In addition, Ms. Rhodes litigates law firm dissolution, fiduciary duty matters and lawyer separations. Ms. Rhodes also represents lawyers in white collar criminal investigations at both the state and federal levels, and has a general commercial litigation practice.
Ms. Rhodes earned her J.D. in 1999, from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, where she graduated
cum laude. She received her B.A. from Lewis & Clark College in 1994.
Founded in 1934, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a national law firm with approximately 500 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.