CHICAGO (January 2026) - Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney's Chicago office continues its strategic growth with the addition of Nathalina Hudson in its litigation section. Hudson joins as a shareholder. With more than 20 years of experience, she will focus her practice on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, and cybersecurity management, including incident response and recovery.
"Throughout her career, Nathalina has demonstrated an exceptional blend of legal expertise, leadership, and strategic vision, said Gretchen Jankowski, shareholder and co-chair of the firm's litigation section. "We're excited to add her to the team in Chicago, and we're focused on continued strategic growth to meet our clients' needs."
Prior to joining Buchanan, Hudson served as Chief of Staff for the Illinois Attorney General's Office. Through this experience, she developed relationships within the state attorney general community and gained a deep understanding of how to guide clients through state attorney general multi-state investigations and settlements, as well as criminal investigations and civil consumer fraud investigations.
Notably, she led efforts to fortify the Attorney General
Office's cybersecurity infrastructure through training,
implementation of enhanced cybersecurity and IT policies, data
classification, risk assessments, third-party vendor risk
assessments and vulnerability management procedures, and by
establishing a cybersecurity team. She also led the development of
a state-of-the-art cybersecurity operations center.
"I look forward to working with my new colleagues to leverage
my state and federal experience to help clients navigate complex
issues and reach their objectives," said Hudson.
Hudson also previously served as Deputy Attorney General, Criminal Enforcement Division, where she led the development and execution of strategic enforcement initiatives, ensuring timely and effective prosecution of high-priority cases across multiple complex areas of law. As a former federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Illinois, she has experience with a variety of complex criminal investigations, including health care fraud, home health care fraud, Medicaid Fraud, anti-kickback investigations, fraud related to internal business accounting, tax fraud, money-laundering, human trafficking, identity theft, mortgage fraud, international drug trafficking and public corruption.