A Hinshaw appellate team led by partners Joshua G. Vincent and Joseph Culig, alongside co-counsel Donald Morrison of Kelleher & Holland, secured affirmance on appeal of the dismissal with prejudice of a 15-count criminal indictment against Waukegan City Clerk Janet Kilkelly.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that Consumer Financial Services partner Fernando Rivera-Maissonet has been selected for the 2026 Class of Fellows of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). Additionally, associates Mariam Chubinidze and Melinda Oliver have been selected to participate in the 2026 LCLD Pathfinders Program.

The law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce the election of thirteen attorneys as new partners, effective January 1, 2026.

Listen to Hinshaw partner Ambrose McCall’s discussion about corporate social media rights, censorship, and AI legal risks on the Greg and Dan Show.

Read a new Mealey’s report, “D&O Liability and Coverage: 2025 Trends, Developments and Decisions,” authored by Hinshaw insurance partners Scott Seaman and Pedro Hernandez. 

Read Hinshaw partner Anshuman Vaidya’s discussion of the merits of the sentencing appeal by tax records leaker Charles Littlejohn in Bloomberg Law’s Daily Tax Report.

Hinshaw partner Anshuman Vaidya will be a panelist at the "Criminal Tax Workshop" on December 11, 2025, during the ABA's Criminal Tax Fraud and Tax Controversy Conference in Las Vegas.

New Orleans-based partner Colleen Jarrott will present with panelists on November 13, 2025, in Washington, DC, to examine carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project development in Texas and Louisiana.

New Orleans-based partner Colleen Jarrott will serve as a panelist at the Fourth Annual Carbon Capture USA 2025 conference on “The Challenges and Benefits of Implementing CCUS in Heavy Industry Sectors,” taking place October 27, 2025, in Houston, Texas.

Hinshaw partner Vaishali Rao is scheduled to co-present a webinar titled "Preparing for State Investigations and Examinations" on August 8, 2025.

The Executive Order directs federal agencies to eliminate or de-prioritize disparate impact liability “to the maximum degree possible,” fundamentally realigning federal enforcement around intentional discrimination and away from statistical disparities alone.

Dive into our latest edition of Privacy, Cyber, & AI Decoded to explore important updates on AI regulation, data privacy, bulk data controls, and enforcement trends.

Explore how Louisiana’s 2025 legislative session and the federal One Big Beautiful Bill are transforming carbon capture and storage development. Learn about key changes to the Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act, new agency structures, and the impact on Section 45Q tax credits.

On February 8, 2024, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Department of Agricultural Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz by holding that a consumer may sue the government under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) for providing false information to the credit reporting agencies.

Yesterday, the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") signed a final rule granting the State of Louisiana's request for primary responsibility for the permitting, compliance, and enforcement of Class VI (deep geologic sequestration) wells under the EPA's Underground Injection Control Program ("UIC").

In 2025, Hinshaw’s global insurance services team authored several resources on key developments and decisions that impacted the US insurance industry. From our timely commentary just published in Mealey’s to the third edition of our Duty to Defend 50-state survey and whitepapers covering a variety of areas that impact the industry, our team has you covered.

Insurers are impacted in many ways by the United States (U.S.) Supreme Court decisions, but very rarely does the Supreme Court wade into decisions directly involving insurance contracts or the rights of insurers. This term, the Supreme Court has had several cases on its docket that affect insurers directly.  

DHS’s May 2025 memo points to at-home arrests based on administrative warrants (Form I-205), with unresolved questions about business entries and “exigent circumstances.” Explore what’s changed, the constitutional backdrop, and the current litigation landscape in our new alert.

Learn more about the US Department of State’s announcement of an indefinite pause on visa adjudications for nationals of 75 countries, effective January 21, 2026.