Consultants and Coaches for the Profession®

Read how a team of Hinshaw attorneys collaborated to contribute six chapters in the 2025 edition of the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) "Attorneys' Legal Liability" handbook.

Read Bloomberg Law's coverage of several panel recaps from Hinshaw's recently concluded Legal Malpractice and Risk Management (LMRM) Conference.

Save the date and plan to join us at the 22nd Annual Legal Malpractice & Risk Management Conference (LMRM). 

Join us for the industry's premier event focused on current and important developments in the law, litigation of legal malpractice claims, malpractice insurance, professional responsibility, and risk management strategies.

Hinshaw's Don Mrozek will present in a series of panel presentations at the Managing Partner Forum (MPF) Fall Symposium, November 3, 2021. Mrozek is the former chairman of Hinshaw (1989-2015), and currently chairs the firm's Consultants and Coaches for the Profession® practice, which provides a series of business advisory services to law firms.

10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Central

2020 LMRM ConferenceMarch 3 – 5, 2020

The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reported today on the establishment of a new governmental and real estate boutique firm. Called Elrod Friedman LLP, the new law firm consists of a group of former Holland and Knight attorneys. The firm is led by partners Steven M. Elrod and Peter M. Friedman.

While relocating to another state may be straightforward for most professionals, it's far from seamless for attorneys because of the risk of engaging in the unauthorized practice of law. In a DRI For the Defense column titled "Moving 'House'? Mind the Gap," Cassidy Chivers explores the challenges that legal practitioners face when moving to a new state, and provides tips for what to do during the "lag time" that exists between seeking and gaining admission to the bar. As part of her discussion, Chivers reviews the American Bar Association's Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.5 as well as legal precedent from cases in Arizona and California.

In an article published in DRI's For the Defense magazine, Hinshaw attorneys Mollie Kugler and Alyssa Johnson review the ethical responsibilities and potential financial liabilities of law firms who experience a data breach as a result of a cyber attack. They note that recent amendment to the Model Rules and their comments reflect the ABA's increasing concern about the ethical implications of such data breaches, and highlight ABA Formal Opinion 483 for its instruction on lawyer duties in the event of a data breach which has a "substantial likelihood" of involving "material client information."

The Legal Malpractice and Risk Management (LMRM) Conference, of which Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a lead sponsor, concluded its 16th annual edition earlier this month. In addition to welcoming more than three hundred attendees, the conference also received extensive media coverage from reporters at Law360 and Bloomberg BNA. The following is a brief summary of the media coverage provided by these publications.Malpractice: Proximate Causation is Key in Legal Malpractice CasesElizabeth Cohen, Associate Editor of the Bloomberg BNA/ABA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct, provided coverage of three panels involving Hinshaw lawyers as panelists. The first panel was moderated by Hinshaw's Thomas McGarry and looked at several recent legal malpractice cases in which causation proved decisive. The second panel, moderated by Hinshaw's Cassidy Chivers, offered a year in review of significant professional malpractice cases. The third panel, which included Hinshaw's Matthew Henderson, focused on indemnity provisions in lawyer retention agreements, especially in outside-counsel guidelines – a "hot topic" according to Henderson.

Donald Mrozek — Fmr. Chair of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP and current Chair of the firm's Consultants & Coaches for the Profession™ Practice — authored a Bloomberg Big Law Business article titled "How to Evaluate Law Firm Leaders." In it, Mrozek addresses the historical practices involved in selecting law firm leadership, and the changed business environment in which law firms operate today. He then outlines an evaluation process calling for the identification of the factors most critical to the firm's success, weighing those factors in order of importance, developing specific behaviors relevant to each factor, and subscribing a grading system for each. "Using an analytical, mathematically based approach to leader performance evaluation," Mrozek explains, "should enhance the effectiveness of firm leadership and correspondingly the competitive position of the firm."