Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP

Managing Partner: Patricia Brown Holmes

Number of partners: 40

Number of lawyers: 93

Firm Overview: 

Fortune 500 and other market-leading businesses turn to the elite trial teams and C-Suite advisors of Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP (RSHC) to handle their most pressing challenges and advance their most important strategic initiatives. The firm works with a targeted focus on helping companies reach their goals expediently and efficiently.

A mid-sized, full-service firm with five offices and lawyers around the country, RSHC is lauded for “punching above its weight” in multiple areas of practice, delivering exceptional service, value, and, most importantly, results. It has nationally renowned class action, white collar defense and investigations, mass torts, commercial litigation, intellectual property, labor and employment, and business transaction practices, and lawyers that are located in California, Illinois, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Vermont, and Washington.

Noted by the Chambers Diversity & Inclusion Awards as “a true diversity and inclusion pioneer for the profession,” the firm draws from its authentic diversity to assemble bespoke teams for each engagement, incorporating multiple perspectives to craft legal strategies and deliver business insights that create success in both the courtroom and the boardroom. Diverse in backgrounds and experience, the firm’s attorneys are united by a culture of excellence that is relentlessly client-focused, dynamically innovative, and passionately committed to winning.

RSHC lawyers are regularly retained to resolve some of the most challenging, complex, and high-stakes legal issues facing clients today. Their litigation teams handle the full range of investigation and advocacy, from whistleblower allegations to government investigations, from pre-litigation demands to full-blown multi-district litigation, and from discrete internal disputes to substantial and public corporate crises. The firm’s transactional attorneys are called on by clients to structure and negotiate sophisticated deals in real estate, finance, and other areas of business. Whether it is a syndicated construction financing, an airport concessions joint venture, a private equity acquisition, or an asset disposition, RSHC deal attorneys have closed significant transactions across the nation.

Across practices, the firm’s attorneys see themselves as counselors to their clients. Several served in top roles in the legal departments of household name companies, handling the panoply of matters that confront 21st century business: governance, regulatory, risk, expansion, competition, employment, compliance, intellectual property, transaction, and securities issues. Others have served as Assistant United States Attorneys or as state court prosecutors. One was an Illinois state judge. Another was First Deputy Chief of Staff and Public Safety for the City of Chicago. Another served as General Counsel to the Governor of Illinois, and Deputy Corporation Counsel in charge of all City of Chicago litigation. These former public servants have judiciously exercised the power of the government and are well-prepared to defend clients against it.

Deep experience with balancing the competing needs and priorities of various constituencies – customers, employees, investors, and regulators – informs RSHC’s approach to helping clients succeed. With nimble teams who can get up to speed quickly and a knack for executing bold strategies, RSHC delivers a winning difference.

OFFICES: 

ILLINOIS  

CHICAGO: 1 S. Dearborn St., Ste. 2200, 60603

Tel: 312 471 8700

Email: [email protected]

CALIFORNIA  

SAN FRANCISCO: 456 Montgomery St., 16th Fl., 94104

Tel: 415 275 8550

LOS ANGELES/IRVINE: 

100 Spectrum Center Dr., Ste. 650, 92618

Tel: 949 359 5500

NEW YORK  

NEW YORK: 810 Seventh Ave, Ste. 3505, 10019

Tel: 212 660 1000

MICHIGAN  

ANN ARBOR: 2723 S. State St., Ste. 150, 48104

Tel: 734 773 4900