Admitted
1978, Virginia; 1983, California; 1988, Pennsylvania
Law School
University of Virginia, J.D., 1978
Law School Graduation Year
1978
College
University of Notre Dame, B.A., with high honors, 1973
Memberships
Philadelphia (Member: Banking Law Committee; Consumer Financial Services Committee), Pennsylvania (Member, Section on Business Law) and American (Member: Real Property Law Section; Administrative Law Section; Business Law Section; Credit Unions Committee; Consumer Financial Services Committee; Chair, Task Force on Lender Liability Limitation Amendments to State Statutes of Frauds, 1989-1990; Vice Chair, 1989-1992 and Chair, 1993-1997, Subcommittee on Access to Consumer Financial Services) Bar Associations.
Biographical
Author, The Eye of the Beholder: Developments Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Regulations B, 46 Business Lawyer, 1991. Co-Author: with Dean C. Gramlich, Lender Liability Limitation Amendments to State Statues of Frauds, 45 The Business Lawyer, 1990; with Laura L. Rogers, Developments Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Regulation B, 43 Business Lawyer 1571, 1988; with Edward J. Dobranski, Variable Rate Loans--The Need for a Successor Index, 39 Business Lawyer 1287, 1986; with Alan S. Kaplinsky, Trends Pertaining to the Usury Laws, 38 Business Lawyer 1329, 1983; with D. Edwin Schmelzer, Variable Rate Credit, 37 Business Lawyer 1391, 1982. Editor: Annual Survey of Consumer Financial Services Law Part II, Business Lawyer, 1989; Annual Survey of Consumer Financial Services Law Part I, Business Lawyer, 1989; Annual Survey of Consumer Financial Services Law Part II, 43 Business Lawyer 1555, 1988; Annual Survey of Consumer Financial Services Law, 43 Business Lawyer 983, 1988; Annual Survey of Consumer Financial Services Law, 42 Business Lawyer 887, 1987; Annual Survey of Consumer Financial Services Law, 41 Business Lawyer 995, 1986. Updated the chapters on Open End Credit Disclosures and Billing Error Resolution for the 2000 Edition of Truth in Lending originally written by Ralph J. Rohner and Fred M. Miller, and edited by Robert A. Cook, Alvin C. Howell and Elizabeth Huber. Reviewer for the Consumer Credit Chapter of the 2004 (scheduled publication date) and 1994 Edition of the American Bar Association's Family Legal Guide. Member, Advisory Panel, 1981 Credit Union Edition of the Truth in Lending Compliance Manual, written by Roland Brandel, Joseph Terraciano and Barry Abbott. Member, Board of Advisors: The Bank Attorney, 1993-1994; CFI Compliance News, 1990-1996. Secretary, Philadelphia Finance Association, 1995-1997. Charter Member, American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. Former Member, Business Law and Real Property Law Sections, State Bar of California.