20 Jan 2026
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Adds Nathalina Hudson to Chicago Litigation Team
"Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney adds Nathalina Hudson to its Chicago litigation team; she will focus on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations and cybersecurity management."
Hudson brings more than 20 years of experience and will focus her practice on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, and cybersecurity management, including incident response and recovery. She joins Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney as a shareholder from the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, where she served as Chief of Staff.
At the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, Hudson also served as Deputy Attorney General in the Criminal Enforcement Division, leading development and execution of strategic enforcement initiatives and prosecution of high-priority matters. She is a former federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Illinois and has handled a wide range 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.
Hudson led efforts to strengthen the Attorney General’s cybersecurity infrastructure through training, enhanced cybersecurity and IT policies, data classification, risk assessments, third-party vendor risk assessments, and vulnerability management procedures. She also established a cybersecurity team and led the development of a cybersecurity operations center to support incident response and recovery.