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Chava Brandriss

Partner

Co-chair, Practice Group DEI Committee (Financial Services)

T 202.973.4258 Washington, D.C.

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Chava represents financial institutions against claims by consumers and navigates clients through the maze of federal and state laws regulating the residential mortgage lending and servicing industry. Drawing on over a decade of experience in the wake of the financial crisis, Chava brings to her clients a deep knowledge of the mortgage industry, including servicing and default servicing issues and regulations, loss mitigation and loan origination issues. Through her highly specialized expertise, Chava positions clients to avoid future risk and minimize potential exposure.

Chava leads the mortgage and home lending practice within our banking and financial services group. She has handled hundreds of mortgage-related lawsuits, including class actions, large portfolios of individual cases and other complex litigation through trial and appeal. As an appellate litigator, Chava has crafted over 100 appellate briefs and arguments.

Chava also provides regulatory and compliance advice and advocates during government enforcement actions, investigations and self-reporting and remediation scenarios. Chava has extensive experience litigating and advising clients on issues of unfair, deceptive or abusive conduct under federal and state laws, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Housing Act, the Truth in Lending Act, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act.

Passionate about pro bono service, Chava is particularly committed to combatting housing segregation, which she strongly believes underlies the entrenched racial inequality that persists in our society. A highlight of Chava's pro bono work includes successfully trying, through appeal, a long-running fair housing lawsuit challenging polices that perpetuate residential segregation in the New York suburbs, an important victory for fair and affordable housing with nationwide impact.

Consumer Financial Services and Other Complex Litigation

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Government Investigations, Enforcement, Regulatory Compliance, and Remediation

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Appeals

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Pro Bono

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Admitted to Practice

  • District of Columbia, 2013
  • New York, 2009
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 2012
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 2016
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 2009
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 2009

Education

  • J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 2008, cum laude
    • Order of the Barristers
  • M.A.T., The City College of New York, 2005, with honors
  • B.A., Barnard College, 2003, magna cum laude

Languages

  • Hebrew

Professional Recognition

    • Received the "Willard J. Wright Award," Davis Wright Tremaine, 2021
    • Named to "Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll" by the D.C. Court of Appeals and the D.C. Superior Court, 2020 (High Honors)
    • Selected to "Washington, D.C. Rising Stars," Thomson Reuters, 2014-2020
    • Selected to "New York Metro Rising Stars," Thomson Reuters, 2013-2019

Background

    • Counsel, Consumer Finance Litigation / Financial Services Litigation, Hogan Lovells US LLP; Washington, D.C./New York, NY, 2008-2020
    • Alexander Fellow, Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y., 2007
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