Formerly with Polsinelli, a six-attorney group led by partner Brendan I. Herbert in Miami and partner Marc D. Cabrera in Dallas is joining Hinshaw’s financial services group. Joining as senior counsel are Jonathan L. Blackmore in Miami, Elizabeth F. Hayes and Justin K. Sauls in Dallas, and Michael C. Hughes in New York.

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 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 today announced that Brian A. Turetsky has joined the firm's Consumer Financial Services practice group as a partner in New York. Formerly with Ballard Spahr, he brings extensive in-house and law firm experience advising a wide range of consumer financial-related companies on state and federal regulation and compliance, as well as litigation matters.

In the November 28, 2022 edition of the ARM Compliance Digest, Hinshaw partner David Schultz discusses the impact of the Ninth Circuit's decision to affirm the dismissal of a case at the District Court level, holding that in order for technology to meet the definition of an automated telephone dialing system, it must generate and dial random or sequential telephone numbers, based on how the Supreme Court interpreted the definition in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA):

In the November 22, 2021 edition of the ARM Compliance Digest, Hinshaw partner David Schultz reports on a case in which a judge lowered the attorney’s fees awarded in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case by 50%, ruling that a "hyper-technical" violation of the statute that led a jury to award the plaintiff $200 in damages was fair and reasonable:

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.

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 attorney Dustin Alonzo will speak as part of an AccountsRecoverydotnet webinar panel titled "CFPB Debt Collection Rule Series: Advisory Opinions." The panel will discuss the inclusion of advisory opinions in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) new debt collection rule, and the impact these advisory opinions might have on the accounts receivable management industry in adapting to and complying with the new rule.

Chicago-based partner David Schultz will co-present "Litigation Trends Within the FDCPA, FCRA, and TCPA " on April 21, 2022, in a webinar organized by AccountsRecovery.net. The panel will share insights into FDCPA, FCRA, and TCPA lawsuits being filed and review defense strategies to avoid being sued.

Chicago-based partner David Schultz will co-present "Mapping Out Legal Strategies" in an AccountsRecovery.net webinar on August 6, 2021. The panelists will share their insights into helping accounts receivables management companies develop effective legal strategies to keep costs down as low as possible.

Hinshaw partner David Schultz will participate in a panel presentation webinar titled, "The Time-Barred Debt - It's 'Time After Sometime' to Talk About This," presented by ACA International, on January 14, 2021. The webinar will discuss out-of-statute debt.

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.