Litigation & Trial

Our lawyers regularly represent clients in mediation, arbitration, and hybrid ADR proceedings. We serve both as advocates and as neutrals, drawing on deep experience with institutions such as AAA, JAMS, ICC, and UNCITRAL. We design ADR strategies that resolve disputes decisively while protecting business relationships and long-term interests.

Hinshaw represents businesses and individuals in appellate matters before state and federal courts across the country. Our lawyers have drafted briefs and presented oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and in state appellate courts. With extensive experience handling post-trial motions, interlocutory appeals, and writs, we advance our clients’ interests at every stage of the appellate process.

We represent businesses in high-value contract disputes, shareholder litigation, trade secret cases, business torts, and cross-border commercial conflicts. Many matters involve multi-party, multi-jurisdictional claims where reputational and financial stakes are significant. Our litigators combine trial readiness with commercial acumen to deliver strategies that align with business goals.

Hinshaw defends clients in catastrophic injury, product liability, personal injury, premises liability, property damage claims, and mass tort cases. We manage high exposure claims across industries including construction, hospitality, retail, and insurance. Our team conducts thorough investigations, leverages trial experience, and provides risk mitigation strategies and subrogation counsel to protect clients’ operations, preserve their reputations, and minimize liability.

We handle class and collective actions under statutes such as FDCPA, FCRA, TCPA, and state consumer protection laws. Our lawyers defend clients in consumer fraud, privacy, data breach, and product liability class actions, often achieving early dismissals or defeating class certification. We also advise on compliance and risk management strategies to reduce the likelihood of future litigation.

Hinshaw defends employers in state and federal courts against claims involving wage and hour disputes, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, class actions, union violations, and ERISA litigation. We provide strategic counsel on labor relations, workplace investigations, employment law compliance, and risk management. Our team also represents clients in mediations and agency investigations—including those by OSHA, EEOC, and the NLRB—and offers compliance training, drafts workplace policies, and negotiates executive agreements.

Our lawyers represent clients in environmental litigation in federal and state courts and before agencies such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We defend manufacturers and insurers in pollution, toxic tort, and other regulatory disputes, and advise on compliance, permitting, pollution prevention, and strategic planning for environmental risk.

Hinshaw defends banks, lenders, mortgage servicers, fintechs, and other financial institutions in disputes involving lending practices, regulatory compliance, consumer protection, and fraud. Our experience spans class actions, arbitrations, enforcement actions, and supervisory exams. We help financial services clients resolve disputes efficiently while safeguarding operations and reputations.

We support healthcare clients in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape through litigation, audits, and investigations. In courts and administrative hearings, we defend healthcare providers, organizations, hospitals, and professionals in medical malpractice actions, regulatory disputes, and reimbursement litigation. Our team advises on HIPAA, HITECH, and transactional matters and provides compliance training and risk management counsel.

We provide insurers with comprehensive counsel across general liability, property, professional, and specialty lines. Our work includes policy analysis, declaratory judgment actions, bad faith defense, extra-contractual disputes, and reinsurance litigation. With one of the nation’s deepest benches of coverage lawyers, Hinshaw delivers clarity and strategic defense in complex coverage disputes.

Hinshaw represents leading insurers, benefit plans, administrators, and fiduciaries in life, health, disability, and ERISA litigation nationwide. Our attorneys handle complex benefit disputes, fiduciary and class action claims, and managed care matters with efficiency, precision, and deep industry insight. With decades of experience in federal and state courts across the country, we navigate the full spectrum of ERISA and non-ERISA claims, from benefit denials and fiduciary breach allegations to regulatory and service provider disputes.

Hinshaw advises and represents payers, health plans, and other managed care entities in the full gamut of reimbursement disputes. With deep experience in payer-provider disputes and negotiations, we deliver practical, defensible solutions that support both operational realities and long-term growth.

We defend mortgage servicers, lenders, and financial institutions against claims involving foreclosure, servicing practices, and lender liability. Our lawyers regularly handle FDCPA, RESPA, TILA, and other consumer finance-related claims, including class actions. We also advise on supervisory exams, compliance programs, and transactional support to minimize litigation risk.

For clients facing high volumes of litigation across multiple jurisdictions, Hinshaw provides centralized portfolio management. We coordinate defense strategies, manage local counsel, and implement consistent approaches to discovery, settlement, and trial. Our scalable model reduces costs and creates predictability while preserving the flexibility needed to address unique claims.

Hinshaw defends attorneys, accountants, healthcare providers, architects, engineers, insurance brokers, and other professionals against malpractice, fiduciary duty, and ethics claims. We combine deep industry knowledge with strong trial experience to resolve high-stakes professional liability disputes. Our lawyers also counsel professionals on risk management, compliance, and ethics to mitigate future exposure.

We assist clients in responding to third-party subpoenas, discovery requests, and regulatory inquiries in a streamlined manner. Our team handles collection, review, and production of documents while protecting confidentiality, privilege, and business operations. By centralizing subpoena response, we minimize disruption and reduce costs while ensuring compliance with legal obligations.

Our attorneys represent corporations, executives, and boards in white collar criminal defense and regulatory enforcement matters. We conduct internal investigations, respond to subpoenas and agency inquiries, and defend clients against allegations of fraud, securities violations, and other misconduct. With former federal prosecutors on our team, we bring credibility and insight into how regulators and enforcement agencies operate.

Hinshaw represents employers and insurers in workers’ compensation disputes, from initial filings through hearings and appeals before state agencies and federal courts nationwide. Our team manages complex cases and third-party actions, coordinates medical and expert evidence, and advises on compliance and risk reduction, while managing claims to minimize costs. Our lawyers also defend self-insured employers in high-exposure claims, including catastrophic injuries.