Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that 16 attorneys, including eight partners, have joined the firm’s Consumer Financial Services and Insurance Services industry groups.

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.

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 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.

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'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.

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

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.

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:

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.