Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that Gregg Stevens has joined the firm as a partner in the Consumer Financial Services practice in Dallas. Formerly with McGlinchey Stafford, Stevens has significant experience advising financial services companies on a wide array of federal and state regulatory compliance, and consumer finance defense litigation matters.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that partners David Schultz and Justin Penn have been re-elected as Legal Advisory Board (LAB) Members of the Consumer Relations Consortium (CRC) for the 2024 term.

A story on a significant Hinshaw client win—Quaglia v. SN Servicing, McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce—ranked among the Top Ten most popular daily decision articles published by the Association of Credit and Collection Professionals (ACA) in 2023.

Read how a team of Hinshaw attorneys collaborated to contribute six chapters in the 2025 edition of the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) "Attorneys' Legal Liability" handbook.

Read AccountsRecovery.net's ARM Compliance Digest columns by Hinshaw partners David Schultz and Justin Penn reviewing recent, impactful court decisions affecting the debt collection and credit reporting industries.

Explore insights from Hinshaw partner Justin Penn on a significant Illinois Appeals Court FCRA ruling affecting the accounts receivable sector and its implications for class actions and court jurisdiction.

Hinshaw partner Justin Penn will co-present an AccountsRecovery.net webinar titled "Differentiating Between Cease Requests and Disputes: How to Tell the Difference," on November 27, 2024. Predicated on the concept that words are important in debt communication, this webinar will enable attendees to distinguish between cease requests and disputes, equipping them with essential insights to better address consumer needs.

Hinshaw partners Justin Penn, David Schultz, and Vaishali Rao will present at the firm-sponsored ARM Law conference in Nashville, Tennessee. On Tuesday, September 17, Schultz will co-present a panel on "TCPA Compliance Update: Navigating Recent Rulings." On Wednesday, September 18, Penn and Rao will respectively present on panels titled "Litigation Update" and "Interacting with Regulators: Strategies for Positive Outcomes."

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP partners, Justin M. Penn and John P. Ryan will present "Licensing Requirements and Their Implication on Collection Attorneys" during the Defense Bar Education Session at the NARCA 2014 Fall Collection Conference October 23, 2014. The presentation will provide an analysis of the evolution of licensing requirements at the state and municipal levels; explore specific examples of state licensing statutes and how debtors have tried to use these statutes as both a sword and a shield; and investigate ways to avoid liability.

Hinshaw partner Justin Penn will co-present an AccountsRecovery.net webinar titled “Dealing with Sovereign Citizen Situations” on September 12, 2025.

Hinshaw partner Justin Penn will co-present an AccountsRecovery.net webinar titled "Settle or Defend: Ripped From the Headlines," on July 18, 2025.

Hinshaw's Justin Penn will present "Preparing For Managing and Cleaning Up Federal and State Investigations," at the Receivables Managements Association International's (RMAI) 2021 Annual Conference, scheduled to be held April 12 – 15, 2021. His presentation will provide a comprehensive look at the types of examinations which affect debt buyers, including how to best prepare for an investigation, how to manage the investigative process, and how to address and remediate issues uncovered by regulators.

Today, Hunstein took another unique—but favorable—turn for the debt collection industry. The Eleventh Circuit Court of appeals issued an order vacating its last opinion in Hunstein vs. Preferred Collection & Management Services, Inc, and ordered the case to be reheard en banc.

In a recent client alert, Hinshaw's Consumer Financial Services team recounted a series of notable federal court decisions they secured on behalf of debt collector clients in recent months. These included multiple wins at the Third and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, as well federal districts in Florida and Illinois.

On September 8, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals gave its final word—after many twists and turns—in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc., No. 19-14434. The court issued an en banc opinion (that is, the case was decided by all the judges in the circuit—not merely the typical three-judge panel) holding that a debt collector's use of a mail vendor did not create a concrete injury necessary to give the plaintiff Article III standing to sue in federal court.

In Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, the Eleventh Circuit drastically altered the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act landscape when, in April of 2021, it determined that the statute was implicated when a debt collector used a third-party vendor to mail notices (violating the FDCPA's prohibition of relaying information about the debtor to a third party). Since then, the case has been subject to both a petition for rehearing and a petition for rehearing en banc, and a decision has been eagerly awaited—particularly in the wake of the intervening Supreme Court TransUnion v. Ramirez decision, which seemingly undercut the original Hunstein decision's reasoning.

Consumer Law Hinsights is a monthly compilation of nationwide consumer protection cases of interest to financial services and accounts receivable management companies.

Consumer Law Hinsights is a monthly compilation of nationwide consumer protection cases of interest to financial services and accounts receivable management companies.

Consumer Law Hinsights is a monthly compilation of nationwide consumer protection cases of interest to financial services and accounts receivable management companies. In this edition, we are also highlighting popular posts from our blog, Consumer Crossroads.