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Of Counsel, Katten & Temple, LLP

Levy provides actionable and creative compliance, transactional and regulatory guidance for mortgage lenders, banks, and related providers to the settlement service industry. Levy has unique sales and in-house experience enabling him to offer practical guidance and effective training on matters such as RESPA, LO compensation, mortgage repurchase defense, loan sale and technology agreements, transaction and business structuring, new business initiatives, and various regulatory and enforcement issues. Levy is a thoughtful industry pundit and the author of the provocative, insightful and heavily footnoted with humor, Levy’s Mortgage Musings. He is also a frequent conference speaker, magazine contributor and webinar/podcast guest. Levy was General Counsel for a mid-sized midwestern bank (and its 3 mortgage banking subsidiaries) for 15 years and prior to that handled primarily commercial real estate matters at a large law firm in Chicago.

Partner & Chair, Consumer Financial Services, Paul Hastings LLP

Jonice Gray is Chair of the Consumer Financial Services practice at Paul Hastings. She specializes in work with banks, non-bank financial institutions, and other companies providing financial products and services. She works with many of the largest bank and non-bank financial institutions, emerging companies such as fintechs, and retailers whose business operations include consumer and small business finance. Her work is focused on high-stakes legal proceedings, including matters initiated by federal and state regulators, private civil litigation, and internal investigations. She also counsels clients on compliance with consumer protection laws. She routinely provides strategic advice to senior corporate leaders, including Boards of Directors, as they navigate complex, and often unexpected, business and legal challenges.

Chairman and Managing Partner, Weiner Brodsky Kider PC

Mitch is the Chairman and Managing Partner of Weiner Brodsky Kider PC. He represents banks, mortgage companies, residential homebuilders, real estate settlement service providers, credit card issuers, and other financial service companies in a broad range of matters. As a litigator, Mitch has defended clients in more than 150 class action lawsuits in federal and state courts throughout the country. He also advises clients on federal and state regulatory compliance matters. He represents clients in investigations and enforcement actions before the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and various state and local regulatory authorities and Attorneys General offices. In addition, Kider acts as outside general counsel to smaller companies and special regulatory and litigation counsel to Fortune 500 companies. He has written extensively on issues involving lenders and other settlement service providers and speaks frequently on regulatory and litigation matters before trade associations and other industry groups.

Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP

Jeff Naimon is a Partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff LLP, with more than 25 years of experience assisting bank and nonbank financial services providers (and investors in same) with regulatory, enforcement, and transactional matters. He defends financial services companies facing complex examination or enforcement matters before the CFPB, FTC, and federal and state banking regulators, with a focus on fair lending, UDAAP, loan servicing, privacy and credit reporting, debt collection, servicemember protections, and other consumer protection issues. He assists banks and nonbanks (including fintech entities) structure, negotiate, and operate a variety of partnerships, outsourcing programs and other third-party arrangements.