Terrance Mebane is a consumer financial services attorney in the firm’s Litigation Department. Prior to joining Ballard Spahr, he was an Assistant Director in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division, where he handled defensive, non-fraud, affirmative litigation, bankruptcy, and appellate matters. In this role, Terrance regularly advised attorneys in the U.S. Attorney’s offices, federal agencies, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Directors, and other components of the DOJ. He also previously served as a Senior Trial Counsel and Trial Attorney in the Corporate/Financial Litigation section. During his tenure at the DOJ, Terrance also served as a subject matter expert in matters involving government and regulatory litigation, including statutory, regulatory, and contractual issues arising under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the McCarron-Ferguson Act; government contract litigation under the Contracts Disputes Act; challenges to agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act; and other matters involving complex statutory or regulatory schemes and regulatory enforcement actions, and receivership and liquidation proceedings involving state-supervised insurance companies.
Terrance gained additional experience at a Chambers-ranked law firm, where he represented financial institutions and companies in complex commercial litigation matters. He developed case strategies, coordinated and managed discovery, resolved evidentiary disputes, and took witness depositions.
Representative Experience
Representative Matters at the DOJ
- Led the trial team representing several federal agencies seeking to recover more than $900 million in costs and damages from electric utility companies that caused massive wildfires that burned through federal land.
- Represented the Department of Education in several class actions and multidistrict litigation asserting breach of contract and statutory claims related to federal loan and grant programs.
- Represented the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in liquidation and receivership proceedings brought by state departments of insurance and challenges to the use of offset (or setoff) to collect amounts owed by insurers to and by the United States under federal and state law.
Professional Highlights
Judicial Internships
Hon. Terrence P. Kemp, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, 2009
Credentials
Education
Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law (J.D. 2009)
Howard University (B.A. 2006)
Admissions
District of Columbia
Ohio