Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

About this office:

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a national law firm with approximately 500 lawyers in 24 offices. The firm offers a full-service practice, with an emphasis in litigation, business law and corporate transactions, environmental, intellectual property, labor and employment law, professional liability defense, estate planning and taxation matters. Our attorneys provide services to a range of for-profit and not-for-profit clients in industries that include alarm and security services, construction, financial services, health care, hospitality, insurance, lawyers and law firms, manufacturing, real estate, retail and transportation. Our clients also include government agencies, municipalities and schools.

Hinshaw was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Chicago and has offices in 12 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.

Appellate, Banking & Financing, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights, Class Action Litigation, Civil Rights Defense, Commercial Litigation, Corporate, Construction Law, Director & Officer Liability, Employee Benefits, Environmental, Fidelity & Surety, General Liability Litigation, Government, Health Care, Insurance Coverage, Insurance and Reinsurance, Labor & Employment, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Mergers & Acquisitions, Municipal Liability, Personal Injury Defense, Public Law, Products Liability Litigation, Professional Liability, Regulatory, Real Estate, School Law, Securities, Taxation, Transportation, White Collar Crime and Workers' Compensation Defense.

Gift Tax—the Window of Opportunity
James W. Keeling,James M. Lestikow, December 14, 2011
From now through December 31, 2012, individual taxpayers may gift up to $5 million during their lifetime without incurring federal gift taxes. Prior to 2011, aggregate lifetime gifts were limited to $1 million. Thus, a married couple now has the capacity to make aggregate lifetime gifts up to $10...

Illinois Adopts Transfer on Death Deeds
Marcia L. Mueller, December 14, 2011
The Illinois Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act (Act) becomes effective January 1, 2012. The Act allows an Illinois landowner (or landowners, if real estate is jointly owned) to execute a deed during the landowner’s lifetime that transfers the real property located in Illinois to a...

Marital Trust Allocation Formula in Wills or Trusts May Need to Be Updated Now
Stephen A. Frost,Marcia L. Mueller, December 14, 2011
The decoupling of the Illinois estate tax from the federal estate tax creates significant complexities in the estate plans of married couples residing in Illinois. Historically, married couples in Illinois used A/B trust provisions to insure that no estate taxes would be due on the death of the...

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