Davis Wright Tremaine represents financial services institutions and their executives in a wide range of complex civil and criminal litigation matters, as well as in arbitrations and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings throughout the United States.
With over 200 litigators in eight offices across the United States, Davis Wright Tremaine has a deep bench that is recognized for its excellence in client service; Chambers USA 2011 recently lauded the firm as "[o]utstanding, efficient, effective and pragmatic in its litigation practice." For complex matters requiring a multi-disciplinary approach, we are able to draw on the significant expertise of our lawyers in related areas such as antitrust, bankruptcy, and labor and employment, in order to meet the full range of our financial services clients’ needs.
Davis Wright Tremaine lawyers represent many of the nation’s leading financial services companies, including banks, mortgage lenders and servicers, securities firms, credit card companies, and insurers, as well as corporate directors and officers, in all phases of litigation from early claims assessment through appeals. We work closely with our clients to devise the best strategy for their business needs and goals and are able to identify optimal exit strategies. When litigation is unavoidable, our lawyers have extensive state and federal trial and appellate experience and have successfully defended clients in class and mass actions across the United States.
We represent numerous financial services institutions and their executives in connection with matters involving fair lending, fraud, unfair and deceptive acts, unfair competition and deceptive acts and practices, breach of fiduciary duties, and other alleged violations of laws governing their business activities. Our lawyers advise clients on white collar criminal matters, including alleged money laundering and mortgage fraud issues. We also have significant experience representing clients in litigation relating to distressed and failed banks.
Our firm has particular expertise in consumer class action defense. Davis Wright Tremaine provides efficient and effective representation in state and federal class actions by leveraging the skills, experience, and knowledge of our financial services litigation and regulatory attorneys in order to formulate a comprehensive strategy tailored to meet each client’s goals. We have extensive knowledge of the procedural and litigation dynamics unique to class actions, as well as expertise in the underlying substantive areas of the law. Our lawyers have extensive experience handling class action claims involving:
- Fair Housing Act (FHA)
- Civil Rights Act of 1866
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)
- Truth in Lending Act (TILA)
- Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
- Civil False Claims Act (FCA)
- Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA)
- Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
- Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)
- Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)
- Homeowners Protection Act (HOEPA)
- Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA)
- Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA)
- Federal securities laws
- Unfair and deceptive trade practice statutes
- State consumer protection, sales practices, privacy and antidiscrimination statutes
Our lawyers routinely handle complex parallel proceedings involving concurrent class actions, derivative actions, government enforcement proceedings, and/or congressional investigations. In the enforcement arena, we represent companies and executives in investigations and actions by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, federal bank regulators, state attorneys general, and other federal and state regulatory agencies. Frequently these parallel proceedings are closely related substantively and we are able to offer our clients comprehensive solutions drawn from the skills, knowledge, and extensive experience of our litigation, enforcement, and regulatory lawyers.