Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 80 lawyers are recognized in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, with ten receiving this honor for the first time. Additionally, 22 Hinshaw lawyers are included in The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has been ranked as a Leading Law Firm in the 2025 edition of BTI Consulting's Most Recommended Law Firms.

Scott Seaman—Chicago-based partner and co-chair of Hinshaw's global Insurance Services Practice Group—has been selected to serve on the Law360 2025 Insurance Authority Specialty Lines Editorial Advisory Board.

Hinshaw partners Scott Seaman and Jason Schulze have authored a new 13th Edition of the insurance law treatise, Allocation of Losses in Complex Insurance Coverage Claims, now available as a comprehensive two-volume set from Thomson Reuters.

Read insights from Hinshaw partner Spencer Kook on the need for a streamlined rate review and approval process for insurers in California.

Read Hinshaw partner Spencer Kook's insights in a recent PropertyCasualty360 article discussing California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara's provisional approval of State Farm's request for an emergency interim rate increase.

Hinshaw partner Scott Seaman—the co-chair of the firm's global Insurance Services Practice Group—is scheduled to co-present a virtual panel titled "Navigating Compliance" on May 20, 2025.

Read our white paper, "The Ultimate Social Inflation Survival Guide," to understand the complexities of social inflation and learn effective strategies for insurers and corporate policyholders to navigate its challenges in today's economic landscape.

Read part two of our white paper to learn the components of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and the impact on insurers and corporate policyholders under the second Trump Administration.

Explore the evolving insurance landscape and the implications of ESG changes under the second Trump Administration in part one of our white paper by Scott Seaman.