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The Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) is an independent national organization of lawyers concentrating in the fields of professional responsibility and legal ethics. The organization was formed to meet the growing demand for expertise in the law of lawyering, melding substantive law, procedural rules and regulatory standards governing various aspects of a lawyer’s professional life.

Bloomberg BNA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bloomberg, is a leading source of legal, regulatory, and business information for professionals. Its network of more than 2,500 reporters, correspondents, and leading practitioners delivers expert analysis, news, practice tools, and guidance — the information that matters most to professionals. Bloomberg BNA’s authoritative coverage spans the full range of legal practice areas, including tax & accounting, labor & employment, intellectual property, banking & securities, employee benefits, health care, privacy & security, human resources, and environment, health & safety.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a national law firm with approximately 500 lawyers in 24 offices. With offices in 12 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, Hinshaw 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. Hinshaw 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, legal, manufacturing, real estate, retail and transportation. Clients also include government agencies, municipalities and schools. Hinshaw was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Chicago.

The Lawyers for the Profession® practice group of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is wholly devoted to assisting attorneys and law firms of all types in successfully handling matters related to law firm creation and risk management, and in protecting lawyers and law firms when professional responsibility and malpractice issues arise.

West, a Thomson Reuters business, is the foremost provider of integrated information solutions to the U.S. legal market. Throughout its history, West has been a leading innovator in its field. Today, its products and services are considered the world standard for supporting the business and practice of law. West offers a powerful competitive advantage to its customers by providing authoritative resources, tools and services.

CHUBB is an experienced insurance company providing comprehensive liability insurance and risk management tools to law firms. Backed by nearly 120 years of experience and consistently high ratings for financial strength from A.M. Best, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, all of Chubb’s products are offered through appointed retail agents and wholesale producers and supported by their global network of branches and affiliates.

For over 60 years, Elite has been a leading global provider of integrated financial and practice management systems and consulting services to law firms. Elite is a business within Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) and is comprised of a team of experts with decades of experience working with some of the largest firms in the world. Elite is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

With Iron Mountain you can protect the confidentiality of information and make it safe. Law firms have unique obligations to safeguard client information as well as protect firm and employee personal information. In today’s market no one wants to lose a client or face a lawsuit when information is mistakenly made public. Your confidential information will have unmatched protection with Iron Mountain’s secure facilities, standards and protocols for law firm information management including transport, storage, imaging and destruction. Iron Mountain has the only patented transportation security technology in the information management industry. Established in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of physical and electronic information assets, including legal records for more than 10,000 law firms around the world. Follow our law firm information management blogs on http://bit.ly/kQDHuA

Lockton provides insurance, surety, employee benefits and risk management services to its clients. Since its inception in 1966, Lockton has grown to be the largest independently owned insurance broker in the United States, serving clients in more than 125 countries.

IntApp provides risk management software solutions that enable law firms to meet their professional obligations relating to new business intake, conflicts, client outside counsel guidelines, and internal policies. It offers products that protect against policy violations and help foster a risk aware culture. IntApp Wall Builder is the industry standard for confidentiality enforcement and tracking for ethical screens, client confidential matters and regulatory compliance.

Paragon is a Lloyd’s of London insurance broker specializing in lawyers’ professional liability programs for law firms in the United States. It offers clients a wealth of information through regular newsletters, monthly updates, market trends and conferences.