ALWAYS WINNING: Squire’s Financial Services Team Becomes Even More Powerful With Addition of Banking Law Heavyweight

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As we all prepare ourselves for huge game day coverage tomorrow–what a lineup we have, my goodness–I wanted to take a moment to share a little more good news.

Many of you know that–while my position as Czar of TCPAWorld transcends any one industry group– the financial services sector holds a special place in my kingly heart because I cut my TCPA teeth serving as counsel for some of the biggest banks in the nation. Indeed my formative TCPA years were spent defending hundreds of suits for major banks and finance companies and helping these complex organizations build enterprise-wide (and sometimes business-line specific) compliance processes, policies and outreach systems.

This experience lives alongside Squire’s vaunted financial services practice which serves the needs of industry participants– from the boardroom to the courtroom. Indeed, Squire’s recognized POWER in the financial services space is one of the major reasons I agreed to come on board.

Adding to that cache, Squire just added Derrick Cephas– practice group head at Weil, Gotschal, and Manges and a “banking heavyweight” according to Bloomberg Law– to its already impressive banking bench.

Oh, and did I mention Derrick was CEO of Amalgamated Bank for a while? No biggie.

Anyway, Derrick has just joined Squire’s New York office and his addition to the firm has (very appropriately) made headlines in legal rags across the nation.

While TCPAWorld.com serves the needs of the entire business community–we’re multi-vertical around here–and not just financial institutions, I figured I’d do a quick shout out to our friends in the banking industry to make sure you’d heard the HUGE news. We are super excited to have Derrick on board and we know he’s going to do (even more) great things.

But really, really– don’t miss tomorrow’s SCOTUS coverage folks.

Chat soon.

 

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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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