Hinshaw Adds Four Partners to Financial Services Group in New Jersey

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that four partners have joined the firm's Consumer Financial Services group in the Iselin, New Jersey office.

The group includes Marissa Edwards, Fred Hoensch, Robert Pollock, and Diane Ragosa, who were previously with Parker Ibrahim & Berg. The attorneys bring significant experience with regulatory and compliance, complex litigation, and bankruptcy matters for a wide range of financial services companies. The team also serves clients in New York and Pennsylvania.

"We are thrilled to have this team on board," said Brian McGrath, co-chair of the firm's Consumer Financial Services Practice Group. "Our clients are experiencing a greater need for compliance counsel, as well as experienced litigators, to handle increasingly complex matters. The group's deep industry knowledge adds significant capabilities to our existing strong bench of practitioners in the practice group."

The group worked previously with Ben Raindorf, co-partner-in-charge of Hinshaw's Iselin, New Jersey, office, and other attorneys at the firm. They decided to join Hinshaw because of the firm's nationally recognized Consumer Financial Services Practice Group, broad geographic footprint, and commitment to strategic growth.

"We all have a deep admiration for the firm's strong reputation and the talented attorneys in the financial services group," said Diane Ragosa. "We bring extensive experience on a broad scope of the compliance issues impacting clients and a successful track record on litigation matters in the industry sector. The firm also offers our clients one-stop shopping on other key legal matters. We're excited to help continue the growth of the Consumer Financial Services practice group."

The group closely follows the addition of partner John Kimble in the Consumer Financial Services Group in Los Angeles, who joined earlier this month from Ballard Spahr.

"I'm delighted that this group has joined our team in New Jersey," said Raindorf. "Having worked with them previously, I know the strength of their legal capabilities and business acumen. The expansion of the financial services group on the East Coast benefits our clients and complements our firm's national platform approach."

About Marissa Edwards

Edwards advises leading financial institutions on the alphabet soup of state and federal consumer protection laws, including the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the Uniform Commercial Code, as well as government investigations and enforcement actions. She has also been admitted to practice in Pennsylvania. She has a strong track record defending clients in civil and commercial litigation, successfully taking matters through trial and appeals. She also has significant experience defending class action litigation in federal courts across the country. Before joining PIB Law, Edwards practiced at Ballard Spahr and Bennett, Bricklin & Saltzburg. She received her B.S. from Pace University and her J.D. from Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University.

About Fred Hoensch

Hoensch advises national financial institutions in a wide range of commercial and business litigation matters in federal and state trial and appellate courts, routinely involving state and federal consumer protection laws, including the Fair Housing Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA, TILA, and the Uniform Commercial Code. Hoensch also has significant experience defending clients in class action litigation, as well as representing creditors and other stakeholders in Chapter 7, Chapter 11, and Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceedings and related adversary proceedings. He is also admitted to practice in Pennsylvania. Prior to PIB Law, Hoensch practiced at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis. He received his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law.

About Robert Pollock

Pollock represents national banks, mortgage lenders, servicers, and trustees in consumer financial services and general commercial litigation matters, as well as in state and federal courts. In addition to his successful track record as a litigator, he advises companies on a wide range of consumer protection laws, including TILA, FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA, and RESPA, as well as state-level consumer laws. Prior to joining PIB, Pollock practiced at Day Pitney. He has a criminal law background, serving as an Assistant Prosecutor in the Somerset County (New Jersey) Prosecutor's Office, where he supervised the Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force, the Counterterrorism Unit, the Screening Unit, the Domestic Violence Unit, and was assistant supervisor of the Civil Asset Forfeiture Unit. He received his B.A. from Emory University and his J.D. from Emory University School of Law.

About Diane Ragosa

Ragosa represents financial services institutions in commercial and business litigation matters, as well as in federal and state trial and appellate courts. She also represents clients in intellectual property litigation matters involving patent and trademark infringement. Prior to joining PIB Law, she practiced at Axinn, Veltrop and Harkrider, and Wilkie Farr & Gallagher. Before earning her law degree, she had an extensive business career at a Fortune 50 company. She received her B.S. in industrial engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, an M.B.A. from Rutgers University, a J.D. from Rutgers Law School, and an LLM in trial advocacy from Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law.

Media Coverage

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