Professional Activities
American Bar Association, past Chair, Committee on Consumer Financial Services
Adviser to the American Law Institute (ALI) Restatement of the Law Third, Consumer Contracts
University of Pennsylvania Law School and Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, past Adjunct Professor
American Law Institute, elected member since May 2006
Recognition & Accomplishments
Chambers USA, leading lawyer, Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (compliance) (national ranking band one); and banking and finance: mainly regulatory (Pennsylvania band one)
The Best Lawyers in America, financial services regulation law, banking and finance litigation, and corporate law, 2007-2020; "Lawyer of the Year," Litigation (Philadelphia) and Banking & Finance (Philadelphia), 2018, 2019
The Legal 500 US, listed in 2011-2019 editions, Financial Services: Regulatory
Recipient, National Law Review's Go-To Thought Leadership Award in Consumer Finance, 2018
Recipient, Lifetime Achievement Award, American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers, 2016
Named a Litigation Trailblazer by The National Law Journal, 2015
First President, American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers
Publications
Member, Financial Services Advisors, Consumer Financial Services Law Report
The Business Lawyer (a publication of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section) Annual Survey of Consumer Financial Services Law
articles providing yearly updates on consumer arbitration developments since 1998
Frequently quoted in national publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, American Banker, and numerous other publications about consumer financial services issues
Speaking Engagements
Co-Chair for 24 years of the Practising Law Institute's Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute
Frequent presenter to numerous organizations on banking and consumer financial services law
Board Memberships
Bloomberg BNA Banking Report Advisory Board