How Cool is This?: Squire Patton Boggs Has a Milan, Italy Office Now

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TCPAWorld just got a whole lot more stylish.

I don’t usually brag about my firm–it does lots of great stuff other than TCPA but none of you want to read about that all the time– but I thought I’d pause a moment today to point out just how global the TCPA “world” really is.

As most of you know I am a partner at Squire Patton Boggs, one of the most powerful and global legal brands out there. But what you might not know is that the firm has 45 offices around the world–including 15 in Europe. 15.

The newest office is in wonderful Milan, Italy. Home of Italian fashion design, financial industry headquarters and famous artwork. Che Bello. 

Here’s what the managing partner of the firm’s new Milan office had to had to say about joining us from another firm:

The more we learned about (Squire), its extensive global position and its collaborative culture, the more this move made sense for us and for our clients. This is an exciting opportunity to add a fully integrated Italian practice into the global firm and expand its already sizable Africa practice.

Exciting indeed.

Obviously the TCPA only impacts companies operating, or calling folks, within the United States. Nonetheless if any of you have needs around the world, keep our powerful global team in mind.

All right, the shameless promotion part of this program is over. Back to work (or shopping…?) TCPAWorld.

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Published by Eric J. Troutman

The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 70 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

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