The Impact of the Election on the CFPB - Part 4
Due to popular demand, we have added a fourth complimentary 90-minute webinar to our series focusing on the impact of the election on private civil litigation, including class actions. Our featured guest for this webinar will be Ira Rheingold, Executive Director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates. He will be joined on the panel by Thomas Burke, Daniel McKenna, Jenny Perkins, Joseph Schuster, and Melanie Vartabedian, litigators in our firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group. The webinar will be hosted by Alan Kaplinsky, former Chair of the Consumer Financial Services Group.
Our panel will discuss:
- Will enforcement lawsuits dismissed by the CFPB be fodder for plaintiffs’ private lawsuits?
- The use of AI and corporate responsibility for ensuring that it does not create unfair or discriminatory results
- FCRA litigation after CFPB v. Experian
- The use AI and corporate responsibility for ensuring that it does not create unfair or discriminatory practices
- EFTA litigation, including wire transfers
- A general emphasis on “unfair” practices (including a close look at allegedly unjustified fees)
- The solar industry, particularly alleged predatory lending practices
- Increased litigation in arbitration, including more coordinated mass arbitration
- Crypto industry practices - fees, deception and third-party responsibility
As a result of the CFPB shutting down its enforcement investigations, seeking to pause all of its enforcement lawsuits, stopping all examinations and other supervisory activities and terminating or putting on administrative leave substantially all of its employees, we are expecting a substantial increase in private litigation, including class actions and state attorney general and other state agency enforcement initiatives. With respect to the latter, on March 11 we produced a webinar featuring Avy Mallik, General Counsel of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.
Also, you won’t want to miss a special podcast show that we released on February 12, 2025 featuring Mike Kilgariff and Joseph Schuster who discuss specific examples of how state AGs are ramping up their enforcement in response to the CFPB shutdown. Click here to listen to this podcast.
You also will want to click here to watch our January 17, 2025 webinar titled "The Impact of the Election on the CFPB - Part 3: Enforcement Initiatives of State Attorneys General." This webinar has also been converted into two podcasts - click here to listen to Part 1, featuring a fireside chat between Alan Kaplinsky and Matthew J. Platkin, New Jersey Attorney General, and click here for Part 2.
We also encourage you to listen to the other two webinars in this series about the impact of the election on the CFPB and state enforcement agencies:
- Click here to watch Part 1 of this series, held on December 16, 2024, discussed CFPB regulations and other written guidance and featured David Silberman, who held a variety of senior positions at the CFPB for almost 10 years spanning the CFPB directorships of Cordray, Mulvaney and Kraninger.
- Click here to watch Part 2 of this series, held on January 6, 2025, focused on CFPB enforcement and supervision and featured Kathy Kraninger, who was the director of the CFPB for most of Trump’s first term in office.
These webinars have also been repurposed into 4 podcast shows.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This program is approved for 1.5 CLE credits in CA, NV, NY, & PA; and 1.8 NJ. MN CLE Credit is pending. Uniform Certificates of Attendance will also be provided for the purpose of seeking credit in other jurisdictions.
Login details can be found in the calendar hold and will be resent the day before the webinar. For more information, contact events@ballardspahr.com.
Click on the links below to watch the previous webinars in this series: