The law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that Vincent Rizzo has been elected to serve as the President of LAGBAC – Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Bar Association –  for the 2025–2026 term. Vincent previously held leadership roles as Vice President and Secretary.

The 2026 edition of Best Lawyers' "Best Law Firms" Directory has been published, with Hinshaw picking up 13 national and 56 metropolitan rankings in the guide.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is delighted to announce that partner Colleen Jarrott has been selected as a 2025 Leadership in Law Honoree by New Orleans CityBusiness. This annual list recognizes “area professionals in the field of law for their career and community accomplishments.”

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.

Read Hinshaw partner Carol Rooney's recently authored article in The Brief discussing the membership benefits of serving in the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Appellate Advocacy Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA).

Read how Hinshaw’s Managing Partner, Robert (“Bob”) T. Shannon, and fellow members of the Leadership Greater Chicago (LGC) 2025 Cohort of the Daniel Burnham Fellowship for Executives were profiled in Crain’s Chicago Business this week.

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.

New Orleans-based partner Colleen Jarrott will speak on carbon capture and storage (CCS) at the American Association of Professional Landmen's (AAPL) 2025 Gulf Coast Land Institute on October 23, 2025, at The Roosevelt in New Orleans.

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.

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").

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.

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.