RSHC news

Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila’s Business Transactions attorneys David Aguilar and Peter M. Zagotta were recently featured in Law360’s quarterly Expert Analysis series, examining the most significant Illinois banking and financial services developments from Q2 2026.

Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila is pleased to announce that Partner LaVon M. Johns has been invited to join the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation (ABF), a prestigious honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars.

RSHC attorney Bruce Wagman is co-counsel in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s APHIS challenging a federal rule that exempts most bird breeders from oversight under the AWA.

Over the past 15 months of the second Trump Administration, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), under the leadership of Chair Andrea Lucas, has pursued aggressive enforcement efforts aimed at advancing the Administration’s civil rights priorities...

RSHC partner Patricia Brown Holmes was featured in Best Lawyers Women in the Law for her article, “The Woman Lawyer’s Playbook for Leading Through Crisis.” In it, Holmes emphasizes a critical distinction: crisis management is leadership, not just legal analysis.

Bruce Wagman, a leading voice in animal law, has published a compelling new article in the American Bar Association’s Animal Law Docket titled How Many Roads Must a Dog Walk Down Before You Call Her a Sentient Being?

In his recent Juriste International article, Animal Law in America – Decades of Change, Millions of Lives Impacted, Bruce Wagman offers a concise and authoritative perspective on the growth of animal law in the United States and its increasing relevance across legal, regulatory, and societal landscapes.

Today's Managing Partner listed its interview of Patricia Brown Holmes as one of the Best of 2025! In her insightful conversation, Holmes champions mentorship, DEI, and the power of authenticity in modern law firms.

On the 50th Anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, RSHC’s Greg Curtner explains how the “Wreck” by Gordon Lightfoot helped save the Mariners’ Church of Detroit in his article “THE LEGEND LIVES ON” about the “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” which sank November 10, 1975.

RSHC’s Bruce Wagman and San Francisco SPCA’s CEO were recently interviewed by HumanePro about “Helping Animal Shelters Navigate (and Change) Laws.”

RSHC Partner Gregory L. Curtner was acknowledged for introducing the subject of whether student-athletes benefit from or are exploited by participation in college athletics in the NBER Working Paper Series: The Benefits of Scholastic Athletics.

In case you missed it, the June/July 2025 edition of Chicago Lawyer profiles RSHC’s Chicago office relocation in the article, "Spaces: Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila's new office checks all the boxes on its list.

In Bruce Wagman’s recent American Bar Association newsletter article, "Chimpanzees—Ten Years of EndangeredStatus," he explains how the legal landscape has changed for chimpanzees, and their slow move from laboratories into sanctuaries.

Today's Managing Partner profiled RSHC Managing Partner Patricia Brown Holmes in an interview that underscores the dynamic leadership required of today’s law firms. In a conversation covering mentoring, authenticity, and diversity, equity, and inclusion, Holmes shared her perspective on RSHC’s success in recruiting and retention.

In Bruce Wagman’s recent American Bar Association newsletter article, "Intertwined: Animal Law and All Its Relatives," he explains how animal law integrates many aspects of traditional legal doctrines, while creating and reforming the legal and social norms around animals; and how the developing field impacts animals on many levels of our society, while incorporating theories, principles, and ideas from other areas of law and science.