LEARNING LAB PRESENTERS

* Moderators are denoted with an asterisk

Module 1: Finding the Communication Zenith Among Borrowers, Firms & Servicers

Donna
​Case-Rossato *
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC
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Donna Case-Rossato, or “Casey”, joined McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC in January 2009 and is presently Managing Partner Connecticut Foreclosures. Previously, she had been the Chief Operating Officer, Managing Attorney for the Foreclosure and Mediation Department, as well as the firm’s Compliance Attorney. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel at CitiMortgage, Inc. for 10 years and worked with a variety of units, including Litigation Management, Wholesale Lending and Warehouse Lending. Before joining Citi, she was in private practice in Connecticut, concentrating in foreclosure and bankruptcy work. Casey was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1989 and admitted to the Maryland bar in 2000. She is also admitted to the U.S. District Court for Connecticut. Casey has a B.S. from Cornell University, 1980 and received her J.D. from Western New England College School of Law in 1989. Casey was on the Board of Directors of the USFN, named Committee Chair of the Year 2015 and Member of the Year 2016, and has moderated and spoken at numerous USFN conferences, as well as Mortgage Bankers Association panels at Legal Issues Conferences. 
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Ms. Manson-Tompkins is the managing attorney of The Wolf Firm’s Eviction and Foreclosure Departments. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Manson-Tompkins had her own office for nine years and was also an attorney with a prominent real estate/business litigation law firm based in southern California. She has spent the majority of her 31 years in practice handling residential civil litigation, with particular emphasis on complex evictions, judicial foreclosures and mobile home foreclosures. She also has substantial experience handling surplus funds, deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure and bankruptcies. Ms. Manson-Tompkins has been frequently called upon to speak at local and national mortgage industry events, as well as a regular speaker for USFN.
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Ms. Newberry has been a practicing lawyer for over 35 years specializing in the arena of Financial Services law, with specific knowledge and expertise in Banking, Non-Depository Financial Institution Law (including Mortgage Lenders and Brokers, Mortgage Loan Originators, and Money Service Businesses), Consumer Lenders (including licensing, reporting, and enforcement); and Regulatory and Compliance Law (including Regulatory Administrative and Enforcement Issues/Orders). Ms. Newberry has spent much of her legal career as a regulator in both federal and state agencies. In her current role with the Firm, she uses her regulatory experience from both sides of the aisle to advise and counsel clients on how best to meet compliance, regulatory, and control challenges across a vast array of financial service clients. Ms. Newberry served as an Enforcement Attorney in the FDIC’s Professional Liability Section for several years. In this role she was charged with the investigation, identification, and determination of any wrong doing associated with directors, officers, attorneys, accountants, and other professionals associated with a failed bank. Ms. Newberry also served as Assistant General Counsel and later as Vice President of the Housing Choice Program at the Atlanta Housing Authority where she was an instrumental part of a small team that designed the Atlanta “Moving To Work” program for HUD assisted housing which is now considered to be the national model for large urban housing authorities across the country. Immediately before joining Aldridge Pite, LLP, Ms. Newberry served for seven years as the Deputy Commissioner for the Georgia Banking Department where she acted as chief legal officer for the Georgia agency that regulates depository and non-depository financial institutions across the state.
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Ruth is an accomplished mortgage professional with over 30 years in the mortgage industry. She has experience in corporate compliance as well as servicing and default compliance. Ruth also has extensive experience in complaint management, as well as all servicing and default operations. 

Module 2: Understanding Title Issues

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Heather M. Fuller is the Managing Attorney of Missouri Foreclosures with Millsap & Singer, LLC, where her practice focuses primarily on the mortgage banking industry. Ms. Fuller manages the firm’s Missouri foreclosure, title resolution and deed in lieu of foreclosure departments. She earned her B.A. degree from Eastern Illinois University in 2000 and her J.D. degree from St. Louis University in 2003. Ms. Fuller is licensed in Missouri, Illinois and Kansas and is a member of The Missouri Bar, the Illinois State, and the American bar associations. She frequently speaks on topics relating to foreclosure, title defects and title insurance for mortgage servicing and attorney organizations.
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Camille Hawk, one of the region’s leading foreclosure and creditors’ rights attorneys, offers financial institutions extensive assistance in the areas of real estate and lending law, and default services including bankruptcy, title issues, foreclosure, loss mitigation, eviction and collections. The primary goal of Camille’s practice is to help lenders reach cost-effective and timely resolutions with their borrowers. She has worked with banks for over 25 years – including as an account manager marketing banking products before law school – and understands firsthand the goals and operations of the lending industry. Camille is passionate about working closely with creditors to help ensure they have the right processes in place to comport with state and federal regulations, especially with regard to often-complicated real estate and banking laws.
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Mr. Sanford has been in the foreclosure related industry for about nine years working different aspects of the business including, but not limited to, operations, servicing, and third party purchasing. He joined The Mortgage Law Firm in May of 2018. Mr. Sanford received a Bachelor’s in Business Administration with concentration in Finance, Real Estate, & Law and Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School – Los Angeles. Besides being a licensed attorney in the state of California, he is also a licensed California real estate broker. He enjoys trying new restaurants and grilling on the weekends.
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Ms. Slowey has over 20 years of litigation experience, specifically devoted to business and real estate litigation involving the mortgage lending and servicing industries. She has also been involved in the title industry for over 15 years, working with realtors, agents, and underwriters. Attorney Slowey manages the REO, title, collection and litigation areas of practice throughout 10 states. She loves to share her expertise at training seminars, conferences, and continuing legal education courses on real property law and related topics.

Module 3: Avoiding the Pitfalls in Payoffs & Reinstatements

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Lance Olsen brings more than 25 years of experience representing the interests of institutional and individual creditors in all manner of default and litigation related matters. Mr. Olsen graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Economics from Western Washington University . In 1995, he earned his law degree from Seattle University, also magna cum laude. Mr. Olsen is AV rated, has been recognized by a variety of publications for outstanding legal work, has served in leadership positions for numerous professional organizations, and is a frequent lecturer on topics including bankruptcy, litigation, foreclosure and best practices in the area of default servicing. Mr. Olsen is admitted to practice law in the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Robert D. Forster, II, is the Managing Partner of the BDF Law Group and is based in the Addison, Texas location.  Since joining the firm in 2006, his practice has primarily consisted of real estate, mortgage banking, and probate matters throughout Texas. He is a frequent speaker at continuing legal and title education programs on mortgage banking, title, probate, and creditors' rights related topics and has authored numerous articles and publications, including serving as a co-author of the Texas State Bar’s Foreclosure Manual (3rd Edition and 2017 Supplement), as well as the 26th Annual Advanced Real Estate Drafting Course for the State Bar of Texas, the 49th, 50th, 51st, and 52nd Annual William W. Gibson, Jr. Mortgage Lending Institute by the University of Texas School of Law, 25th Annual Robert C. Sneed Texas Land Title Institute, as well as participating on panels hosted by ALFN, USFN, Five Star, Legal League 100, IMN, and TMBA. In 2017, Robert was awarded the Suzanne Kelly New Member of the Year Award by the United Trustee Association and actively serves on the Mortgage Bankers Association State Legislative and Regulatory Committee.  Robert received his B.S. from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and his J.D. from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law. He is licensed to practice law with the State Bars of Texas, Arizona, and Georgia, all United States District Courts in Texas and Arkansas, and the United States Supreme Court.
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Emmanuel Voces represents national mortgage servicers and lenders in matters related to consumer finance, title insurance, real estate and mortgage banking law. He is also an experienced litigator in the areas of foreclosure, evictions and creditor defense, and has handled complex commercial litigation involving residential and commercial foreclosures since 1997. He is a frequent speaker at national seminars for the mortgage banking industry and he conducts training seminars onsite at client offices nationwide. Emmanuel is the past chair of the litigation department and has served as the firm-wide Managing Attorney of SIWPC since 2008.
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Mr. Ziegler earned his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 2009, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Seton Hall University in 2005. He was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar in 2009.
Prior to his association with Frenkel Lambert, Mr. Ziegler was an Associate with a mortgage default firm, concentrating in mortgage foreclosures. He was also previously law clerk to the Honorable Frank Cuiffani, Presiding Judge of General Equity in the Middlesex Vicinage of New Jersey.
Mr. Ziegler is an associate in Frenkel Lambert's mortgage default department in the New Jersey Office.

Module 4: Contested Issues

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Rob is a Principal of the firm and the firm’s Managing Litigation Partner overseeing litigation for all the states in which the firm practices. Rob also reviews and drafts pleadings, argues motions, and represents clients in adversarial and evidentiary hearings and settlement conferences, at trial and before the Connecticut Appellate and Supreme Courts as well as Federal District, Appellate and the United States Supreme Court. Before joining Bendett & McHugh, P.C., Rob was in private practice for several years. Rob has assisted in drafting several amicus curiae briefs and has authored many default servicing related articles and co-authored several publications. In addition to his work with Bendett & McHugh, Rob also serves on the Board of Directors for the USFN, and as the Vice-Chair of the USFN Membership Committee, and is a member of the ALFN Complex Litigation Committee, CT Bar Association Appellate Advocacy, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy, Litigation and Real Property sections and the CMBA Legislative Committee.
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Julie York is a Partner at Brock & Scott, PLLC. She is licensed to practice law in Florida and is also admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. She received her Juris Doctor from Barry University School of Law where she graduated Cum Laude.
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Shevon Elam began her career in the financial services industry more than 15 years ago, initially working for a creditors' rights firm before taking on progressively more responsible roles with several mortgage servicers. She has significant experience in default services, focusing on foreclosure, litigation, and REO, and has also served in management roles in the Collateral Documents and Consumer Complaint departments. Shevon’s educational background in Public Administration and industry experience allow her to effectively analyze situations to develop and implement process improvements that focus on producing quality work and increasing the efficiency of employees.
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Rich Haber is Managing Partner of McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC’s mortgage servicing litigation practice in New York and New Jersey. He has over 20 years experience handling mortgage foreclosures, bankruptcy actions, evictions, and related litigation. Rich has litigated thousands of contested foreclosures and title-related matters, and regularly defends mortgage servicers and investors from claims brought under state consumer fraud laws and federal statutes including FDCPA, TILA, RESPA, FCRA, and TCPA.

Learning Lab 3.0: The Basic Formula Session Overviews

Learning Lab recordings are currently free to access and geared toward anyone who has completed all eight Core Concept modules or has 0-5 years experience. The 45-minute sessions are a great opportunity to gain an in-depth view of the steps of the default servicing process.