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Julie Moran is a Senior Executive Counsel at Orlans PC, a 100% woman owned WBENC certified law firm and a member of NAMWOLF, the National Association of Minority and Women owned Law firms. She is licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The firm represents local and national lenders and servicers in the areas of residential and commercial foreclosure, regulatory compliance, complex litigation, creditors’ rights, credit card and consumer secured lien recovery including auto and mobile home loans, bankruptcy, evictions, real estate closings and REO sales. Julie is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Rochester and Union University’s Albany Law School. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Real Estate Bar Association and is a member of the Compliance Committee of the MA Mortgage Bankers Association, the Financial Services Committee of NAMWOLF and USFN, where she is vice chair of the Legal Issues Section and is an Amicus Committee member. |
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Jaime Burgess is a 20+ year veteran of the mortgage service industry. She began her career at Countrywide, where she progressed her career through a multitude of areas including Acquisitions, Originations, Real Estate Owned, Property Preservation, and Donations. Following an illustrious 13-years at Countrywide/Bank of America, Jaime moved with her family from CA to Texas to take on the Property Preservation leadership role for SolutionStar. Jaime’s success as an executive was quickly rewarded with additional responsibilities in Foreclosure, Mediations, Attorney Oversight, Real Estate Owned (REO), and FHA post sale. Jaime is long considered an industry expert and her expertise is widely sought for her broad wealth and depth of knowledge. |
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Roy Diaz is the shareholder of Diaz Anselmo Lindberg, PA in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Roy has been a member of the Florida Bar since 1988. He has concentrated his practice in the areas of real estate, litigation and bankruptcy. He has represented lenders, servicers of both conventional and GSE loans, private investors and real estate developers throughout his career with an emphasis on the mortgage servicing industry for over 25 years. |
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Daniel Cox is a partner and manages the Default Litigation Practice Area which handles accounts in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Kentucky. The majority of his practice focuses on assisting clients to manage their commercial and residential Default Litigation and Default related matters including Foreclosure, Bankruptcy, Forfeiture, Evictions, Appeals, Code Violations, Lender Liability Litigation, Loss Mitigation, Mediations, Best Practices and Risk Management. He focuses on providing consultation and risk analysis in the effort to reduce costs and minimize risk per account to protect his client’s interests. |
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Eva is a partner and Compliance Attorney with Bendett & McHugh, P.C. where she started her career as a law clerk in the mortgage default industry. She holds active licenses in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island. Eva has provided clients with guidance for regulatory compliance and foreclosure, litigation and appellate representation for 9 years. |
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Marcy J. Ford is a Managing Partner with Trott Law, P.C., with offices in Michigan and Minnesota. She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the Federal Bar Association, the Oakland County Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees, and a member and former board representative of the Consumer Bankruptcy Association of (Eastern District of Michigan.) She is active with USFN, a trade association for mortgage banking attorneys, and served on the USFN Board for 11 years and was President from 2012 to 2014. Marcy was honored on the Crain’s Detroit Business “Women to Watch” list. She has also been recognized as a dbusiness magazine “Top Lawyer” and was named as one of HousingWire’s Influential Women in Housing. |
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Dean Meyer is Director, Loss Mitigation in the Single-Family Servicing Operations Management organization. In his position, he is responsible for business management of Freddie Mac’s non-routine mortgage litigation. Mr. Meyer has also been responsible for oversight of Freddie Mac’s foreclosure/bankruptcy loan inventory and the Servicers that managed these loans. This included foreclosure/bankruptcy timeline management and compensatory fees management for nonperforming loans. Prior to joining Servicing Operations, he served as the Director of Servicing Operations Policy, where his team was responsible for developing and publishing all servicing contract requirements for Freddie Mac’s Single Family Seller/Servicer Guide. A veteran of over 35 years in the mortgage industry, Mr. Meyer joined Freddie Mac in 1999. Prior to Freddie Mac, he held leadership positions in mortgage servicing and nonperforming loan management for several small and large mortgage companies. He also worked on contracts with FHA, managing servicing operations and claims audits. |
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Shellie Wallace is a Partner/Shareholder and Managing Attorney of the Foreclosure Legal and Foreclosure Title Departments. She received her education from Arkansas Tech University (B.A., 1989, Highest Honors) and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law (J.D., 1992). She was admitted to the Bar of the State of Arkansas in 1992, and The Tennessee Bar in 2006. She has significant experience in consumer protection litigation, legislation and administrative procedures. Her practice areas focus in real estate and creditors rights. |
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Jeanette O’Donnell is an associate attorney with the law firm of Powers Kirn, LLC. She concentrates her practice in the area of general foreclosure, foreclosure litigation and bankruptcy proceedings representing creditors. She is a graduate of Rutgers University (B.A. 2005) where she studied political science and women’s studies and New England School of Law (J.D. 2008). Prior to joining the firm of Powers Kirn, LLC in 2009, she clerked for the Honorable Louise DiRenzo Donaldson, J.S.C. in the New Jersey Superior Court from 2008 until 2009. Jeanette is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association, Federal Bar Association of New Jersey and Camden County Bar Association where she serves as a member on the Debtor-Creditor Committee. |
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Elizabeth DeSilva joined McCalla Raymer Liebert Pierce, LLC with over 20 years experience working for some of the largest residential and mortgage banking companies in the country. Prior to joining the firm, Liz spent five years as Vice President and Chief Servicing Counsel of Ditech Financial, LLC. While at Ditech she was responsible for legal oversight of the Attorney Oversight Department which manages the default attorney referral network. During her tenure at Ditech, Ms. DeSilva focused on all areas of Mortgage Servicing Compliance, while overseeing the team of Attorneys and Paralegals who managed compliance with state and federal law, administrative requirements, and investor requirements. Liz will join McCalla Raymer Liebert Pierce as Deputy General Counsel for the firm. |
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Experienced Corporate Counsel and Financial Services Executive with a demonstrated history of success working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Creditors' Rights, Default Management and Compliance, Acquisitions, Asset Management, Westlaw, and Legal Research. Strong legal professional graduated from University of Miami School of Law. |
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David Greene is Deputy General Counsel of Fannie Mae, located in Fannie Mae’s Chicago office. David works in Fannie Mae’s Credit Loss Management group, providing legal support on subject matters such as contested foreclosures and bankruptcies, loan workouts, servicing transfers, legislation, mortgage fraud, and litigation. David has nearly 30 years of experience as a lawyer in the mortgage banking industry. Prior to joining Fannie Mae in 2003, David was Assistant General Counsel for LOGS Financial Services and Senior Counsel for PNC Mortgage and Washington Mutual Home Loans. Before going in-house, David spent over 5 years as a litigator at a private firm in Chicago. David is a life-long Chicagoan, having attended Northwestern University and University of Chicago Law School. |
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Keith Abramson is a partner with Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon, LLP, focused primarily on managing the firm’s mortgage foreclosure litigation practice, both in New York and Florida, advising on compliance and regulatory matters for the firm and its clients, and handling a significant caseload of active files in various stages of litigation. Admitted to practice law in New York in 1992, and Florida in 2001, Keith began working in the mortgage default industry in 2008 and has been engaged as litigation counsel to secured creditors for over 14 years. Prior to 2008, Keith worked as a criminal defense attorney for the 15th Judicial District of Florida, both in the Public Defender’s Office and in private practice in Palm Beach County. He is admitted to the Federal District Courts in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the Southern District of Florida. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and the St. John’s University School of Law. |
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Mike L. Wiery is the Litigation Manager of Reimer Law Co.’s Ohio and Kentucky offices. Reimer Law Co.’s Litigation Department is primarily focused in the areas of foreclosure, title, eviction, REO property litigation, and regulatory compliance issues, handling trials and appeals in State and Federal Courts on behalf of large creditor clients both in Ohio and Kentucky. |
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Jeffrey serves within the Legal Department as Senior Regulatory Counsel. In this role, he provides legal consultancy and compliance guidance to LoanCare’s default and loss mitigation teams. He has overseen the regulatory change management process for over five years from a legal perspective. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeffrey successfully led support in navigating the plethora of government programs and ever-changing regulatory climate. Prior to LoanCare, Jeffrey spent time with Ocwen, where he assisted in implementation of settlements and consent orders. Earlier he served in regulatory compliance at Dovenmuehle where he was responsible for implementing the 2014 CFPB mortgage servicing rules. |
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Bernard (B.J.) John is Senior Counsel, Retail Banking Home Lending Default Operations for PNC Bank, N.A. in Pittsburgh, PA. B.J. joined PNC in 2017 from private practice where he handled consumer litigation for a number of financial services institutions as well as real estate transactions, foreclosures, bankruptcy and probate matters. In his role, B.J. is responsible for advising on mortgage/consumer default servicing issues, foreclosure litigation and regulatory requirements. Previously, B.J. served as an Assistant District Attorney. B.J. received his B.A. in Political Science/Theatre from Denison University and his J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law. He is a member of the Pennsylvania State Bar. |
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Caren Jacobs Castle is a Senior Mortgage Servicing Attorney at The Wolf Firm, A Law Corporation. Ms. Castle has nearly 40 years of experience in the mortgage servicing industry and many honors. She is a past president of USFN and was the organization’s first female president. She also served as the first Chairperson of the Board of The Legal League 100. Ms. Castle was recognized by Housing Wire in 2011 as an influential woman in the housing industry, was honored by FiveStar in 2011 for outstanding leadership and service to the housing industry, received the USFN member of the year award in 2012, and the USFN Founders Award in 2020. She has participated on numerous high level committees including committees within the US Department of the Treasury and the Mortgage Bankers Association of America and CA MBA. Ms. Castle speaks extensively throughout the country on mortgage servicing related issues and has been a featured speaker at numerous national MBA Servicing Conferences, USFN, ALFN, and Legal League 100 events. |
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Sara Tussey holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the Pennsylvania State University (1999) and a Juris Doctor from the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law (2009, cum laude). She was Casenote Editor of the Penn State Law Review, Notarius of the John Reed Inn of Phi Delta Phi, and was elected to the Order of Barristers. Sara practices real estate law with a focus on litigation, foreclosure and evictions. She serves as a panelist at numerous default industry events and regularly writes articles for industry related publications. She is admitted to practice in Virginia, Maryland, New York, and the District of Columbia. |