Gordon W. Green

Gordon is a commercial litigator in the firm’s Consumer Financial Services practice. He represents institutional lenders, national and regional banks, mortgage servicers, and boutique commercial and residential lenders. His practice includes defending these institutional bank and lending clients in litigation asserting regulatory and consumer-protection claims against the bank, including alleged violations of RESPA, TILA, FDCPA, TCPA, and electronic funds transfer laws.

His practice focuses on commercial litigation, financial services defense, collections, foreclosures, and bankruptcy matters. He manages high-volume, portfolio-level consumer finance and foreclosure dockets for national and regional banks, while also handling complex and higher-exposure commercial disputes for financial institutions and other corporate clients.

He has more than a decade of experience, including:

• Securing seven-figure awards for national bank clients in federal loan disputes, including matters involving complex commercial lending and related regulatory issues.
• Defending lenders against high-net-worth individuals seeking to overturn foreclosure sales.
• Advising clients on distressed commercial loans through forbearance agreements and negotiated resolutions that add collateral and mitigate regulatory and litigation risk.
• Managing consumer finance and regulatory defense matters for mortgage banking and financial services clients, including wrongful foreclosure, title curative work, and bankruptcy adversary proceedings, often overseeing a high volume of cases, and serving as first chair in state, federal, bankruptcy, and probate courts.
• Serving on litigation teams in multimillion-dollar fraud and corporate raid cases, including matters recognized among the Top 100 verdicts in Texas, and leveraging that complex-case experience when novel or escalating issues arise for lending and other institutional clients.
• Advising national and regional banks on risk, litigation strategy, and disputes involving RESPA, TILA, FDCPA, TCPA, and electronic funds transfer claims, often against well-resourced opposing counsel.

• Represented a bank in federal commercial loan dispute with various corporate borrowers and guarantors which resulted in seven-figure award for client on summary judgment.
• Represented company, its CEO, and employees in RICO lawsuit filed by secured lender of corporate predecessor.
• Defended consumer lender in state court litigation filed by high-net worth individual seeking to overturn foreclosure sale of property and succeeded to dismiss case, in part through dismissal motions, and in full on summary judgment.
• Defeated consumers on summary judgment in highly contentious deceptive trade practices lawsuit which sought seven figures in damages, including exemplary damages, against client auto dealership.
• Represented residential and commercial landlords in eviction proceedings and defensive matters, including toxic-tort litigation.
• Represented institutional clients in the mortgage banking and financial services industries in various litigation matters, including wrongful foreclosure, title curative work, and adversary proceedings in bankruptcy.
• Prosecuted bench trial in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding as sole attorney against three attorneys representing the debtor.
• Oversaw large law firm’s entire Texas bankruptcy practice.
• Represent commercial banks, small and institutional lenders, mortgage servicers, and other creditors in collection matters, foreclosure matters (both nonjudicial and judicial), and bankruptcy proceedings.