Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that Miami partner-in-charge Barbara Fernandez and Ft. Lauderdale partner-in-charge Andrew Gordon have been honored in the 2025 South Florida Business Journal’s Power Leaders in Law & Accounting, which celebrates the region’s most influential executives across key industries.

Four partners, Marissa Edwards, Fred Hoensch, Robert Pollock, and Diane Ragosa, have joined Hinshaw's Consumer Financial Services Practice Group in the Iselin, New Jersey office.

Hinshaw Miami partner-in-charge Barbara Fernandez has been honored as one of ten Women of Distinction in the 2025 Inaugural Miami-Dade Florida Association of Women Lawyers (FAWL) Impact Awards.

Read Hinshaw partner David Schultz's column analyzing a significant U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit decision that overturned a lower court’s decision not to compel arbitration in a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) case.

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's Lauren Campisi will participate in a panel discussion titled "TransUnion v. Ramirez: What This Ruling Means For You, For Hunstein, and For the Number of Lawsuits Filed Against Collectors," on June 30, 2021. Campisi and her fellow co-panelists for the program, presented by AccountsRecovery.net, will analyze the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in TransUnion v. Ramirez, and what it means for the accounts receivable management industry.

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.

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.

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: