Chava Brandriss

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 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. In other words, Chava "speaks loan servicer." 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 cases, including class actions, large portfolios of individual lawsuits and other complex litigation through trial and appeal. As an appellate litigator, Chava has crafted over 100 appellate briefs and arguments.

Chava also provides compliance advice, counsel on loss mitigation practices and other portfolio-wide servicing issues and advocates during government 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 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.