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Consumer Finance Defense

Litigation

Consumer financial services are one of our country’s most regulated industries. Walter Haverfield takes pride in protecting financial institutions’ legal, reputational, and operational risks while resolving matters efficiently and effectively. Our team is well known and trusted by lenders and loan servicers locally and nationally.

Practice Group Leader

Mark S. Fusco, Chair

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Our Consumer Finance Defense Difference

Our attorneys represent national, regional, and local banks as well as credit unions, lenders, loan servicers, and financial institutions in litigation involving a range of complex matters, including defense of claims asserted under various federal and state consumer finance statutes.

Walter Haverfield’s litigation team is well-versed in the defense of:

Recognition

Our litigation attorneys in our Cleveland and Columbus offices are consistently ranked and recognized by Best Lawyers®, Super Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell, and more. At Walter Haverfield, we pride ourselves on becoming each client’s trusted advisor for all their litigation needs.

U.S. NEWS – BEST LAWYERS® 2023 “BEST LAW FIRMS” RANKINGS

  • METROPOLITAN TIER 1: Banking and Finance Law
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 1: Commercial Litigation
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 1: Litigation – Labor and Employment
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 1: Litigation – Real Estate
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 1: Litigation – Trust & Estates
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 1: Real Estate Law
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 1: Tax Law
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 2: Construction Law
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 2: Criminal Defense: White-Collar
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 2: Litigation – Environmental
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 2: Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 3: Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 3: Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 3: Litigation – Construction
  • METROPOLITAN TIER 3: Litigation – ERISA
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Experience

  • Defending the nation’s largest banks, nonbank mortgage lenders, brokers, loan servicers, and sub-servicers in mortgage origination and consumer litigation under state and federal statutes, including but not limited to Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act (OCSPA), FDCPA, FCRA, Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA), TILA, and RESPA in virtually all trial and appellate courts in Ohio
  • Serving as outside regional counsel managing consumer finance litigation on behalf of loan servicers and sub-servicers in multiple states/jurisdictions
  • Advising in-house corporate counsel on litigation strategies, compliance issues, rights, and obligations under complex commercial contracts, including HUD, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac guidelines, as well as rights and obligations under Pooling and Servicing Agreements relative to mortgage-backed securitized trusts
  • Compliance consulting regarding fintech integration of third-party service provider into national mortgage lender’s existing mobile loan origination platform
  • Consulting and defending of nationwide sub-servicer in investigations by the Ohio Attorney General and the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions
  • Successfully representing a national bank in the Ohio Supreme Court that garnered the attention of national media and ended the prosecution of out-of-state financial institutions via trials-in-absentia
  • Defending a national non-bank loan servicer in consumer class action involving FDCPA and bankruptcy-related claims
  • Defending a national automobile warranty company in consumer class action TCPA claims
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