Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that Fernando C. Rivera-Maissonet has been reappointed as the Co-Chair of the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA)’s Business Law Section for the 2025–2026 term.

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.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 80 lawyers are recognized in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, with ten receiving this honor for the first time. Additionally, 22 Hinshaw lawyers are included in The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

Learn how Hinshaw partner David Schultz and the firm played a "crucial role" in shaping Illinois’ new coerced debt protection law, and what it means for collection agencies and consumer rights, as featured in the ACA Daily.

In a byline published in the January 2025 edition of The Banking Law Journal, Geoffrey Milne explores the significance of a rise of contested mortgage foreclosure cases involving lender-placed insurance (LPI).

Hinshaw partners Vaishali Rao, Akeela White, and Joe Sanders will lead a panel on "Regulatory Landscape from a State Perspective" at the Chicagoland Compliance Association's (CCA) Annual Conference on October 16, 2025, in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Hinshaw partners David Schultz and Vaishali Rao will present at ComplianceCon 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Hinshaw partners Vaishali Rao and Michael Guerrero will speak at the Annual Consumer Financial Services Conference in Chicago, Illinois, on May 29, 2025. Both attorneys serve on the Governing Committee of the Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL), which hosts the event.

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

Chicago-based partner Vaishali Rao will co-present the webinar, "Back In Repayment: What Student Loan Servicers Need to Know About Licensing Before Collecting," on June 26, 2025.

Mohamed F. Sweify, is set to deliver opening remarks for the first global event organized by NYSBA’s Egypt Chapter at a virtual panel titled "Crypto, ESG and Global Markets: U.S., Egypt and Brazil Regulatory Shifts & Trends," on April 30, 2025.