Brooke Conkle and Chris Capurso, attorneys with Troutman Pepper Locke and co-hosts of Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast, were quoted in the August 27, 2025 Automotive News article, “Dealerships Might Be Able to Live With California Version of CARS Rule Moving Through Legislature.”

  • “There seems to be a lot of haggling is … the word that I would use, to try to get this thing over the line,” auto finance attorney Chris Capurso, an associate at the Troutman Pepper Locke law firm’s Richmond, Va., office, said Aug. 25.
  • Nevertheless, “it could be tight” for the industry to be ready for the new law, said auto finance attorney Brooke Conkle, a Troutman Pepper Locke partner also at the Richmond office.