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 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 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. 

Read David Schultz’s AccountsRecovery.net ARM Compliance Digest column analyzing a New Jersey Appellate Division decision holding that using a letter vendor to print and mail collection notices does not violate the FDCPA.

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.

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 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.

Hinshaw partner Justin Penn will co-present an AccountsRecovery.net webinar titled “The Pro Se Litigation Playbook” on January 20, 2026. 

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.