Building RSHC: Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP 2017 Annual Report - Report - Page 5
“…we acted to meet the expressed needs
of our clients…”
Market Leading Practices
We are now a national law firm of litigators, trial lawyers, and transactional
attorneys. As soon as we opened, growth was an imperative to meet the needs
of our clients. Given the newness of our venture, finding like-minded people
who are willing to change the way they think about the practice of law poses
its own challenges. Fortunately, we have attracted new colleagues with the
same commitments to professional excellence, client and public service, and a
collaborative work environment.
We’ve expanded the breadth of our services, as well. This past summer, we
added two important practice capabilities: Antitrust and Competition Law and
Business Transactions. Once again, we acted to meet the expressed needs of our
clients, adding lawyers who practice at the top of their respective fields. We are
currently seeking to expand our Corporate capabilities further.
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Business Transactions
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Class Actions
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Commercial Litigation
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Insurance Litigation
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Intellectual Property
Commercial Litigation, Class Actions and Mass Torts
As our national Tier One ranking from Best Lawyers demonstrates, our most
prominent practices include mass torts and class action defense work. In 2017,
Best Lawyers named Bob Riley as Chicago’s Lawyer of the Year for his Product
Liability work. This year, Best Lawyers named Matt Fischer as Chicago’s 2018
Lawyer of the Year for his Mass Torts defense work. Joe Cancila has also been
recognized by Best Lawyers as one of the best lawyers in the country for class
action defense. And several members of our mass torts and class action practices,
including Ed Casmere, Heidi Dalenberg, Jim Gaughan, Sondra Hemeryck, Nick
Kahlon, and Josh Lee, have been named as Illinois Super Lawyers, and/or as
Illinois Law Bulletin Media Leading Lawyers.
Our commercial litigators work from all four of our offices and practice across
the nation. Since we started, we have defended our clients against class actions
and other commercial litigation in federal and state court in 16 states. During that
period, eight class actions were dismissed at the pleading stage.
Antitrust and
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Labor and Employment
Counseling and Litigation
Product Liability and
Mass Tort Litigation
Risk, Reputation and
Crisis Management
White Collar Defense,
Investigations and
Compliance
We try cases, sometimes in notoriously tough jurisdictions. We have a deep
team of first-chair trial lawyers who, together, have tried scores of civil cases to
verdict across the country. We win. And because we win, our clients often can
resolve matters expeditiously and efficiently without a trial.
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