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News & Analysis as of May 23, 2013

CFPB Announces Major Update To Consumer Complaint Database

by BuckleySandler LLP on 4/8/2013

On March 28, the CFPB released tens of thousands of consumer complaints related to mortgages, student loans, bank accounts and services, other consumer loans, and credit cards. Credit reporting complaints, will be released in...more

CFPB Digest – March 2013

by Suzanne Fay Garwood, Audra J. Heagney, Alexandra Megaris, Jonathan L. Pompan, Andrew D. Price, Jeffrey S. Tenenbaum | Venable LLP on 3/14/2013

In this issue: - What to Expect When You're Under a CFPB Investigation – Negotiating the Scope of the CID - CFPB Initiative to Promote Student Loan Payment Plans - Consumer Complaints Offer Insight into...more

CFPB’s ECOA disparate impact test finds support in HUD’s FHA “Discriminatory Effects” final rule

by Barbara S. Mishkin | Ballard Spahr LLP on 2/14/2013

In April 2102, the CFPB issued a bulletin to confirm that it plans to apply a disparate impact test in exercising its supervisory and enforcement authority under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and Regulation B. The...more

Weekly Brief: Lawyers Laid Off After Foreclosure Settlement [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 1/10/2013

Jan. 10 (Bloomberg Law) -- Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia runs through the legal news for the week. A major settlement between Fannie Mae and several large banks has resulted in many lawyers suddenly finding themselves...more

Protecting Education Savings Accounts in Bankruptcy: Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney

by John Skiba on 2/8/2011

This is my 100th blog post since I started blogging back in June, 2009 and I thought I would go with a topic that has arisen a few times over the last couple of months: Education Savings Accounts and how they are impacted...more

Lawyer Can't Stop Practicing, Even after the Judges Tell Him to Stop

by Gary E. Rosenberg, P.C. on 2/3/2009

Bertram Brown was admitted to the practice of law in the State of New York in 1954. Fifty years later, in 2004, an alarming amount of complaints against him spring up alleging that Mr. Brown was stealing money from his...more