Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 35 lawyers were selected for the 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch®.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that the firm has continued the strategic expansion of its nationally recognized Consumer Financial Services Practice Group with the addition of partners Leslie Meredith in Washington, D.C., and Joseph (Joe) Sanders in Chicago.

Read two Hinshaw-authored articles—“Fair Access and Debanking: Recent Developments and Unanswered Questions” and “State Survey of Coerced Debt Laws”—in the latest issue of the CCFL Quarterly Report.

Read a Law360 Expert Analysis by Hinshaw partners Leslie Meredith and Vaishali Rao discussing emerging enforcement risks in marketing and advertising for financial services providers. 

Hinshaw partners Brian McGrath, Lauren Campisi, and Leslie Meredith will speak at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA’s) 2026 Compliance and Risk Management Conference at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC, from September 27–29, 2026.

Hinshaw attorneys Alyssa Szymczyk and Leslie Meredith will present at the 2026 Spring Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL), taking place May 28 and 29 at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

Hinshaw proudly serves as a Diamond Sponsor of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference in Miami from May 4 to 7, 2026.

Learn how banks would be impacted by the proposed first major update to Regulation O in nearly 50 years—significantly raising dollar thresholds for insider lending and modernizing outdated leadership definitions.

Read key takeaways from the Hinshaw-sponsored 2026 Mortgage Bankers Association Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference, where our attorneys were on site, presenting and engaging with industry leaders.

Read how Tennessee has reached the first settlement in the multistate attorney general action against Mariner Finance, imposing conduct requirements on add-on product sales and lending.