Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that Jill Eckhaus has been re-elected to a new three-year term on the Illinois Defense Counsel (IDC) Board of Directors.

Read how a Hinshaw legal team consisting of Jill Eckhaus, William “Bill” Cook, and Richard Harris successfully secured the dismissal of a negligence lawsuit filed against a chiropractic clinic, a decision which was recently affirmed by the Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District.

The law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that Hinshaw partners Jill Eckhaus and Hillary Weigle have been re-appointed to Illinois Defense Counsel (IDC) committee leadership positions for the 2024 – 2025 term.

Joshua Vincent and Jill Eckhaus will participate as faculty in the Illinois Defense Counsel's (IDC) Developments Critical to Medical Malpractice Litigation Hybrid Seminar on August 15, 2024. Vincent will present "The 'Secret Agent' – Updates on Apparent Agency Jurisprudence." His presentation will cover the general law of apparent agency in Illinois with a special discussion of Solorzano v. Magnani, Brayboy v. Advocate, and Conrads v. Rush-Copley. Eckhaus will moderate a panel titled "Jury Questions: Rule 243, Questions from the Jury, and Special Interrogatories." The discussion will cover a decade of jury questions allowed by Supreme Court Rule 243 and recent developments in jury questions in cases like Devany v. Lincoln Park, Galich v. Advocate, and Edson v. Horwich. Her panel will also explore the continued use of special interrogatories following the amendment to 735 ILCS 5/2-1108 and Ris v. Advocate.