Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that senior counsel Nicholas Ponzo has been appointed to serve on the City of Stamford’s Historic Preservation Advisory Commission (HPAC).

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that partner Cathy Mulrow-Peattie was selected by Crain’s New York Business for its 2026 Notable Women in Law.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that Hinshaw partners James (Jim) Sandy and Scott Seaman have been ranked as Top Authors in the 2026 JD Supra Readers’ Choice Awards.

Read a Law360 “Expert Analysis” by Hinshaw partner John Kimble examining the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s (DFPI) regulatory and enforcement priorities for 2026.

Read an AccountsRecovery.net column by Hinshaw partner Justin Penn analyzing the significance and key takeaways of a recent FCRA ruling, which dismissed most claims against a defendant accused of improperly reporting mortgage delinquencies during COVID-19 forbearance periods.

Read a new AccountsRecovery.net column by Hinshaw partner Colin Winkler, who examines a recent Minnesota district court decision that largely denied a motion to dismiss in a pro se Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) case, despite the plaintiff’s reliance on sovereign citizen-style arguments. 

Hinshaw partners Lauren Campisi and Brian McGrath will present at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Servicing Solutions Conference and Expo in Dallas, Texas, from February 16 to 19, 2026.

Partners Dustin Alonzo and Leslie Meredith will serve as panelists on November 20, 2025, at the Fall Conference of Consumer Finance Law (CCFL) in Fort Worth, Texas.

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 partner Jim Sandy will be a faculty member in a National Business Institute (NBI) CLE webinar titled "Advanced FDCPA Compliance Challenges and Violations," on April 1, 2026.

Hinshaw partner Colin Winkler will co-present an AccountsRecovery.net webinar, "Breaking Down the NYC Proposed Debt Collection Rule," on March 3, 2026, at 3 pm Eastern.

Hinshaw partner Colin Winkler will co-present an AccountsRecovery.net webinar titled "Breaking Down FCRA Lawsuit Trends" on February 11, 2026, at 1pm Eastern.

Read our key compliance insights from a significant DOJ settlement with a major car retailer over allegations that the company repossessed vehicles from active-duty servicemembers.

Read our new Consumer Crossroads blog written by partner Jim Sandy, where Jim discusses a recent case where the Ohio Eighth Appellate District found that a party could not circumvent the statutory timeframe to seek to vacate an arbitration award.  

Watch our video discussion diving into the new regulatory landscape under NYC’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, including enforcement priorities against junk fees, subscription traps, and unfair interface designs.

In this November edition of Hinshaw’s Privacy, Cyber and AI Decoded, in celebration of the US Thanksgiving holiday, we are recommending that our readers Keep Calm as they are faced with a new surge of legal requirements, regulations, and enforcement actions, and Gobble On. 

Explore compliance implications of California’s finalized CCPA rules and Colorado’s new regulations, including insurance privacy requirements, ADMT notices, risk assessments, and phased cyber audits.

Explore key compliance strategies from Hinshaw partner Cathy Mulrow-Peattie and industry experts on AI-driven cyber risks and regulations, as covered in our alert with takeaways from the Q3 2025 FinCyber Femmes Meeting.

Read part one, "A Bronx Tale: A New York State Trial Judge Calls Out New York State's Long-Standing Heightened Standard of Proving the Making of an Agreement to Arbitrate," about the trial court's decision in Wu v. Uber Tech., Inc.

On February 8, 2024, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Department of Agricultural Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz by holding that a consumer may sue the government under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) for providing false information to the credit reporting agencies.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed off on anti-deed theft legislation, as outlined in Senate bill 2023-S.6577 with companion Assembly bill 2023-A.6656.[1] The Governor signed the new legislation on November 14, 2023, and it goes into effect 30 days later, on December 14, 2023. (See 2023-A.6656 section 8.)