LITIGATION FORUM TRACK: Bankruptcy and Data Breach Litigation
This session covers the latest developments in bankruptcy law and how recent cases impact compliance responsibilities. In addition, matters pertaining to data breach litigation will be addressed.
Speakers
Facilitator

Robert represents financial institutions and mortgage companies across the United States. He has handled matters both at the pre-litigation and initial complaint filing phase as well as being employed during discovery, to depose expert witnesses and at the pre-trial phase to assist the current counsel. On the compliance side, Robert has worked with both legal and business managers for multiple clients to draft and outline procedures in response to pending or new legislation. Robert is a regular speaker at national industry conferences. He is Faculty Fellow with MBA’s School of Mortgage Banking.
Speakers

Simon Fleischmann is a partner in Troutman Pepper Locke’s Consumer Financial Services Practice Group. He advises banks and non-bank financial services providers in complex litigation and regulatory enforcement matters across the country. He has tried jury and non-jury cases, argued in federal and state courts of appeal, and effectively responded to investigations by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Illinois Attorney General. Most of the matters Fleischmann handles involve consumer-related operations, such as loan origination and modification practices, payment application procedures, website accessibility, online payment fees, collateral preservation procedures, default servicing procedures, debt collection, outbound calling practices and related technology.

Michael R. Hogue maintains a multi-disciplinary construction practice providing representation to owners, developers, and major corporations in all aspects and phases of construction and project development in the real estate industry. Michael’s practice provides an integrated “one-stop-shop” for a broad cross-section of public and private sector clients in due diligence, transactions, tenant buildouts, project oversight and management, regulatory compliance, disputes, litigation, and restructuring/bankruptcy matters. Using his broad experience with project development in an array of differing geographic and economic conditions, Michael represents clients in a variety of industries ranging from hospitality and multifamily development to digital infrastructure and transportation/mass transit throughout the United States and abroad. And as a firm believer in “doing well by doing good”, Michael also provides pro bono counseling and representation on construction and project development matters to charitable organizations and non-profits.