New Directions in Consumer Financial Services: Housing Finance, Collection Practices, and Ethics
Why Attend?
Participate from the convenience of your office or home in selected sessions webcast from the ABA Business Law Section Consumer Financial Services Committee Winter Meeting! Featured are the authoritative speakers you want to see and hear on new opportunities, trends, and legal accountability.
Register for any individual session or for all three. ABA members are eligible for discounts, as are group viewers.
What You Will Learn
Webcast Segment A: The New Frontier of Housing Finance (9:00 am-10:00 am EST)
The 2008 financial meltdown resulted in legislation and regulatory action which dramatically impacted mortgage lending in the US. Our panel of experts will discuss how these changes will impact mortgage origination and servicing.
Presented by: Subcommittee on Housing Finance and RESPA. Chair: John P. Kromer, Buckley Kolar LLP, Washington, DC. Vice Chair: Sanford Shatz, Countrywide Mortgage, Calabasas, CA.
Speakers: Michael C. Flynn, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC; Felecia Rotellini, Arizona Department of Financial Institutions, Phoenix, AZ (invited)
Webcast Segment B: Abusive Collection Practices: A Consumer Lawyer’s Perspective (10:00 am-11:00 am EST)
Attendees at this session will hear from one of the leading Fair Debt Collection Practices Act attorneys in the country, who will discuss current trends in the collection industry and the impact of collectors’ conduct on consumers.
Presented by: Subcommittee on Debt Collection Practices and Bankruptcy. Chair: Anna-Katrina S. Christakis, Grady Pilgrim Christakis Bell, LLP, Chicago, IL. Vice Chair: Tomio Narita, Simmonds & Narita, LLP, San Francisco, CA.
Speaker: Peter F. Barry, Barry & Slade, LLC, Minneapolis, MN
Webcast Segment C: What Can We Learn, What Should We Learn, and What Have We Learned from the Seismic Shift in the Financial Market? (11:15 am-12:15 pm EST) (eligible for ethics credit)
Many factors have contributed to the financial meltdown. Has a lack of accountability (at least until now) been compounded by inadequate legal accountability? Did our concept of the role of lawyers shape our contribution to the crisis? Join us in this program for a lively discussion of these issues.
Speakers: Kathleen Keest, Center for Responsible Lending, Durham, NC; Eldon Spencer, Leonard O’Brien Spencer Gale and Sayre, Ltd., Minneapolis, MN
Planning Chairs
Anna-Katrina S. Christakis, Grady Pilgrim Christakis Bell, LLP, Chicago, IL
John Kromer, Buckley Kolar LLP, Washington, DC
Tomio Narita, Simmonds & Narita, LLP, San Francisco, CA
Sanford Shatz, Countrywide Mortgage, Calabasas, CA
Faculty
Peter F. Barry, Barry & Slade, LLC, Minneapolis, MN
Michael C. Flynn, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
Kathleen Keest, Center for Responsible Lending, Durham, NC
Felecia Rotellini, Arizona Department of Financial Institutions, Phoenix, AZ (invited)
Eldon Spencer, Leonard O’Brien Spencer Gale and Sayre, Ltd., Minneapolis, MN
Accompanying written materials are distributed in downloadable PDF format. For assistance with group tuition discounts for ABA members, send email to groupregistration@ali-aba.org or call 215-243-1653 or -4007.
Whether you sign up for one or all of these January 12 sessions, you also will have complimentary access to your video when available online after the live event.
Did you miss the standing room-only presentation by the ABA Presidential Task Force on Financial Markets Regulatory Reform? Click here to watch this from the Business Law Section Fall 2008 Meeting archives, Meltdown! Perspectives on the Future of Financial Services Regulatory Reform, plus a dialogue with the SEC enforcement staff and sessions on hot bankruptcy issues and the attorney-client privilege and SEC examinations.
Program Schedule
All Times Eastern Standard
9:00 a.m. Webcast Segment A: The New Frontier of Housing Finance
10:00 a.m. Webcast Segment B: Abusive Collection Practices: A Consumer Lawyer’s Perspective
11:00 a.m. Intermission (15 minutes)
11:15 a.m. Webcast Segment C: What Can We Learn What Should We Learn, and What Have We Learned From the Seismic Shift in the Financial Market?
12:15 p.m. Adjournment
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 3.0 (including 1 hour of ethics). Total 50-minute hours, 3.6 (including 1.2 hours of ethics)
Times
Eastern 9:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Central 8:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Mountain 7:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
Pacific 6:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m.
