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 today announced that Rachel Nudel has joined the firm’s Defense Litigation Practice as a partner, operating from the firm’s offices in New York and New Jersey.

Hinshaw is pleased to announce that it has boosted its Business Litigation practice group with the addition of complex civil defense litigation attorney Heather M. Calhoon as a partner in the firm’s Miami office.

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.

Hinshaw partner Joel Wiegert will serve as the conference co-chair for the Fidelity Law Association (FLA) 31st Annual Conference, in Chicago, Illinois, on October 8, 2025, for which Hinshaw is a firm sponsor. His Hinshaw colleague, Michael Adams, will also present as part of a panel titled "Who's Holding the Bag? (And Who Gets to File the Claim)?"

Hinshaw partner José A. Herrera Paez, an adjunct professor in the University of Miami School of Law's Transactional Skills Program, will co-present "Core Contracts Every Business Lawyer Must Master" at the school's Essentials of Transactional Practice Bootcamp on September 5, 2025, in Miami, Florida.

Hinshaw partner Justin Penn will co-present an AccountsRecovery.net webinar titled "Dealing with Pro Se Litigants," on November 6, 2025. 

Chicago-based partner David Levitt will moderate a DRI webinar, titled "Litigation Financing: What You Need to Know," on September 3, 2025.