Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that Miami partner-in-charge Barbara Fernandez has been selected as one of Florida Legal Elite’s 2025 Most Notable Women Leaders in Law by Florida Trend Magazine for the third consecutive year.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that BTI Consulting has ranked the firm as a “Leader in Litigation” in its BTI Litigation Outlook 2026 client survey.

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.

Read Akeela White’s analysis of a debt collector’s petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify three Fair Debt Collection Practices Act questions.

Read a Law360 “Expert Analysis” article by Hinshaw colleagues Megan Ryan and Sam Bodurtha, which analyzes Massachusetts’ new consumer protection regulations targeting “junk fees” and deceptive pricing practices.

Read Hinshaw partner Akeela White's ARM Compliance Digest column analyzing an Ohio appellate court decision upholding summary judgment for a debt buyer in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) case.

Boston-based partner Geoffrey Coan will be a panelist at the Bench-Bar Leadership CLE, "Controlling eDiscovery: Discovery Issues Unique to Mass-Tort MDLs," on March 13, 2025, at the Charleston School of Law in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

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."

Chicago-based partner David Schultz will co-present an AccountsRecovery.net webinar titled "Defending FCRA Lawsuits," on August 19, 2024. As the number of FCRA lawsuits continues to rise annually, this webinar will examine the complexities of these cases and outline effective defense strategies to improve the chances of a positive outcome.

Hinshaw partner Justin Penn will co-present an AccountsRecovery.net webinar titled "Dealing with Pro Se Litigants," on November 6, 2025. 

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.

Read our blog post outlining the legal framework and practical steps for successfully obtaining a rent receiver, with a focus on expediting the process and maximizing collateral value.

Explore the evolving legal landscape of data breach claims, examining on how courts define actual injury and standing requirements in light of recent rulings.

Loan servicers and their counsel are often sued by consumers during contested mortgage foreclosure proceedings. The United States Supreme Court’s opinions in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins[1] and TransUnion v. Ramirez[2] continue to be an important precedent in defending consumer claims.

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.

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.

On Friday, June 25, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, reversed and remanded TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez back to the Ninth Circuit. Justice Kavanaugh delivered the opinion of the Court and he was joined by Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch and Chief Justice Roberts. The Court decided the question of whether Plaintiff can establish Article III standing without suffering a concrete harm aside from simply alleging a violation of a federal statute, which provides for the recovery of statutory damages. The Court also decided whether each putative class member must establish Article III standing to assert a claim for statutory damages.

We recently attended the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) 2024 Global Summit. The event provided great insights into privacy, artificial intelligence (AI), and regulatory issues, and we wanted to share those with our readers. Here are our top four takeaways from the conference:

New Hampshire is the fourteenth state with a comprehensive privacy law, as signed by Governor Sununu on March 6, 2024. The new law will go into effect on January 1, 2025. Continue reading for our Q&A on the "trusted" number 14!

The Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (“GIPA”) was enacted in 1998, and although minimal litigation followed in the years following its enaction, we are now seeing a significant surge in litigation similar to that experienced under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”).

We share news of a significant defense victory before the Illinois Supreme Court in a claim involving the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). In a case argued by Hinshaw partner John Ryan, the Supreme Court handed down the first employer-friendly decision in any BIPA case it has considered. The issue before the Court was whether "Section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act (29 U.S.C. §185) preempt Privacy Act claims (740 ILCS 14/1) asserted by bargaining unit employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement?"

Yesterday, the Illinois Supreme Court held that the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act's exclusive remedy provisions do not bar employees from filing lawsuits in civil court against their employers for alleged violations of the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), when no other injury is alleged. McDonald v. Symphony Bronzeville Park, LLC, 2022 IL 126511. 

The Illinois state legislature passed the Biometric Information Privacy Act in 2008. The law, known as BIPA, covers and regulates private employer use of biometric identifiers and biometric information of Illinois employees. Local and state governmental employers are specifically exempted.

Welcome to the Labor & Employment Chronicle, our quarterly newsletter that reviews the top stories from Hinshaw's Employment Law Observer blog.

BIPA: Employer Obligations, the Risks of Noncompliance, and What Comes Next

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