Press Releases

Dinsmore attorneys R.J. Cronkhite and Tom Cedoz successfully defended a client from a claim of breached partnership and contractual obligations by a subcontractor for $3.7 million this week. The client provides IT services to the United States Department of Defense. The company recently won a lucrative multi-million federal contract. Its subcontractor then sued the client for more than $3 ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has welcomed partner of counsel Michelle Duncan to its Louisville office, where she will practice with the firm’s Labor & Employment Department. She is the fourth new partner in the office this month, following the promotion of three former associates to begin 2021 ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to welcome partner Helana Darrow, who will practice with the Tax, Benefits & Wealth Planning group in the firm’s Corporate department. Darrow has extensive experience in employee benefits and executive compensation, including counseling clients on 401(k) and other retirement plans, deferred compensation, HIPAA, COBRA and ERISA compliance. This area of specialty is particularly pertinent during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce that 15 attorneys were elected to partnership effective Jan. 1, 2021. “I’m excited that these 15 impressive attorneys are proceeding to the next level of their careers here at Dinsmore, and I’m anxious to see what they’ll accomplish as partners,” said Dinsmore Chairman and Managing Partner George Vincent ...

Wooden McLaughlin LLP, a regional law firm with offices in Evansville, Indianapolis and Bloomington, has merged with the national law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. Wooden’s 47 attorneys, including the seven in Evansville, join the 680-plus at Dinsmore to create one of the largest mergers in the legal industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Wooden’s success, both recently and over its 50-year history, made the merger a logical and beneficial business decision ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP continues its upward growth trajectory by merging with Wooden McLaughlin LLP in Indiana, adding offices in Indianapolis, Evansville and Bloomington to its national footprint. The merger, which became official on Jan. 1, 2021, is one of the largest such deals of two domestic-only firms in the legal industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it immediately grows Dinsmore’s attorney headcount by over 7 percent ...

We are proud to announce The Bond Buyer has awarded a Dinsmore health care financing as its 2020 Deal of the Year in the Health Care Financing category. The awarded deal was the $1.16 billion aggregate principal amount of bonds issued in April for Bon Secours Mercy Health, Inc., and its nonprofit affiliates. According to The Bond Buyer, the financing helped “pave the way for the reopening of the capital markets for not-for-profit health systems amid the pandemic ...

Dinsmore & Shohl is pleased to announce 41 of its attorneys have been named to the Kentucky Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists for 2021. Attorneys on the Super Lawyers list are selected by a multi-phase process that takes into account independent research, peer evaluations and professional achievement. The Rising Stars list recognizes up-and-coming attorneys in Kentucky. Dinsmore attorneys recognized as Super Lawyers & Rising Stars are listed below: Super Lawyers – Lexington Glen S ...

Dinsmore & Shohl is pleased to announce 44 of its attorneys have been named to the Ohio Super Lawyers list and Rising Stars lists for 2021. Of the total, 36 are repeat winner from previous years. Attorneys on the Super Lawyers list are selected by a multi-phase process that takes into account independent research, peer evaluations and professional achievement. The Rising Stars list recognizes up-and-coming attorneys in Ohio ...

Dinsmore partners Andrey Tomkiw and James Reid have been selected as 2021 Top Lawyers in Metro Detroit by dBusiness Magazine. Tomkiw, based in Troy, is recognized as one of Michigan’s top labor and employment attorneys, having been rated in the Super Lawyers top 100 attorneys in Michigan twice. This is the 13th year in a row he's been recognized by the magazine as a top attorney ...

Dinsmore partners Andrey Tomkiw and James Reid have been selected as 2021 Top Lawyers in Metro Detroit by dBusiness Magazine. Tomkiw, based in Troy, is recognized as one of Michigan’s top labor and employment attorneys, having been rated in the Super Lawyers top 100 attorneys in Michigan twice. This is the 13th year in a row he's been recognized by the magazine as a top attorney ...

As part of the 2021 U.S. News & World Report “Best Law Firms” rankings, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has been named “Law Firm of the Year” for mining law, the only firm in the U.S. to receive such recognition for the practice area ...

Dinsmore and Shohl LLP has welcomed Matthew Bakota to its Dayton office as an of counsel attorney. Bakota has been practicing for 15 years and will continue to practice in the areas of management-side labor and employment law and business litigation. He is certified as a specialist in labor and employment law by the Ohio State Bar Association and as a professional in human resources (PHR) through HRCI ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has welcomed commercial litigation partner Matt Wasserman to its growing Chicago office. Wasserman is Dinsmore’s third new hire in the last month, following associates Brian Talcott and Helena Wright. Wasserman joins from Golan Christie Taglia LLP, where he practiced since 2008. He focuses his work on complex commercial litigation, including business-to-business disputes, real state, shareholder and third-party administration litigation ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has welcomed associate Rebecca Trump Russell to its Morgantown, West Virginia office. She will practice in the firm’s award-winning Labor & Employment department, which was named one of the 29 best in the United States by Forbes in 2019 ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to welcome attorney Terri Stallard, who has joined the firm’s Lexington office as a partner in its leading Private Client & Family Wealth Planning practice group. She joins from McBrayer PLLC, where she practiced since 2004. Stallard focuses on estate planning, business succession planning and asset protection, typically for clients with eight figures-plus in assets ...

PNC Bank and Dinsmore & Shohl LLP are partnering to participate in the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Week. “In this especially difficult time, the unserved and vulnerable members of our communities are desperately in need of free legal services,” said Renee Garcia, managing senior counsel and pro bono chair at PNC ...

In one of the first in-person civil trials in Kentucky during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dinsmore attorneys Chris Cashen and Chris Jackson secured a victory for global aerial work platform manufacturer Genie. This is significant for the industrial equipment industry, as it is the first entrapment case to be tried to verdict. “This is a great victory for both Genie and Dinsmore,” Cashen said. “This victory is the result of an outstanding trial team from Dinsmore ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s Jill Cranston Rice has been selected as this year’s recipient of the DRI Kevin Driskill Outstanding State Representative Award. DRI is the leading organization of civil defense attorneys and in-house counsel, and Rice has served as West Virginia’s state representative to DRI since 2017. She is the first member from the state of West Virginia to receive this award ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of its Tampa office with the addition of partner of counsel, Lisa Hodgdon. Hodgdon has spent more than 20 years as a labor and employment and commercial litigator. Over the last few years however, she has found that her practice has transitioned primarily to providing advice and guidance to employers on various labor and employment issues that arise in the workplace ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the prospect of public events, and construction projects for facilities that house public gatherings have been left in limbo. Rupp Arena, home of the Kentucky Wildcats, is no exception. The landmark’s renovation was first announced in 2014, and Lexington residents have been waiting for their promised state-of-the-art facility ever since ...

The American Lawyer released its annual A-List Female Equity Partner Scorecard on August 20, and Dinsmore is among the top firms listed, with its ranking of 27th, up from 35th in 2019. The scorecard ranks the female equity partner percentage of 184 United States-based law firms. At the time of publication, Dinsmore’s 39 female equity partners made up 24.5 percent of its equity partner population, resulting in the No. 27 ranking nationally ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce 180 of its attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® . Dinsmore also had 19 attorneys named “Lawyer of the Year” in their practice fields and 52 attorneys named to the “Ones to Watch” list ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce 52 of its attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch list. Dinsmore also had 179 attorneys named “Best Lawyer” in their respective practice fields and 19 attorneys named “Lawyer of the Year ...

Dinsmore & Shohl is pleased to announce 19 of its attorneys were recently named Best Lawyers® 2021 “Lawyer of the Year.” In each city, one lawyer from each practice area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” The attorneys received the honor based on high reviews by their peers for their abilities, professionalism and integrity. Additionally, 179 Dinsmore attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® ...