PLI’s 25th Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute will take place on December 7-8, 2020 by live webcast.

The Institute is considered the country’s premier consumer financial services CLE program and this year’s Institute will once again explore in detail important developments in consumer financial services regulation and litigation.  I am again co-chairing the event, as I have for the past 24 years.… Continue Reading

There is no question that a COVID-related recession will bring about a wave of regulatory enforcement activity and consumer litigation. But what areas will the regulators and plaintiffs’ counsel focus on, and how can the industry stay out of the crosshairs? On June 2, the Practicing Law Institute is hosting a free one-hour briefing that will help answer these questions.… Continue Reading

PLI’s 25th Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute will take place on March 23-24, 2020, in New York City (and by live webcast and groupcast in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and New Brunswick, New Jersey; Cleveland, Ohio; and Atlanta, Georgia); on May 18-19, 2020, in Chicago; and on December 7-8, 2020 in San Francisco (and by live webcast).… Continue Reading

The third location of PLI’s 24th Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute will take place in PLI’s San Francisco Conference facility and via concurrent live Webcast on December 9-10, 2019 in San Francisco (and by live webcast).  PLI has extended a 25 percent discount to clients and friends of Ballard Spahr who register through the link below.  … Continue Reading

The second presentation of PLI’s 24th Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute will take place in Chicago on May 20-21, 2019.  The Institute is considered the country’s premier consumer financial services CLE program and this year’s Institute will once again explore in detail important developments in consumer financial services regulation and litigation. … Continue Reading

The third location of PLI’s 23rd Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute will take place in PLI’s San Francisco Conference facility and via concurrent live Webcast on June 25-26, 2018.  This will be the first time in many years that the Institute will take place in San Francisco.  Since the first location of this event in NYC on March 26-27 was well-attended, and the second location in Chicago on May 7-8 was sold-out, anyone interested in attending the program in San Francisco is encouraged to act quickly to register. … Continue Reading

The second presentation of the 23rd Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute, sponsored by the Practising Law Institute, will take place in Chicago on May 7-8, 2018.  I am co-chairing the event, as I have for the past 22 years.

Hundreds of people attended the first presentation in NYC, live and on the web, on March 26-27, 2018. … Continue Reading

The 23rd Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute, sponsored by the Practising Law Institute, will take place on March 26-27, 2018, in New York City (and by live webcast and groupcast in Atlanta, Cleveland, and New Brunswick, New Jersey); and on May 7-8, 2018, in Chicago.  For the first time in many years, on June 25-26, 2018, the Institute will also be presented in San Francisco (and by live webcast).… Continue Reading

The second presentation of the 22nd Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute, sponsored by the Practising Law Institute, will take place in Chicago on May 4-5, 2017.  I am co-chairing the event, as I have for the past 21 years.  Hundreds of people attended the first presentation in NYC, live and on the web, on April 27-28, 2017. … Continue Reading

Earlier today, at the Practicing Law Institute’s (“PLI”) 22nd Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute in New York City, Alan Kaplinsky (who is co-chairing the event) moderated a panel entitled “The CFPB Speaks,” that featured three senior CFPB lawyers: Anthony (“Tony”) Alexis (Assistant Director for Enforcement), Diane Thompson (Deputy Assistant Director, Office of Regulations), and Peggy Twohig (Assistant Director for Supervision Policy). … Continue Reading