- Auto Finance
- Consumer Financial Services
- Consumer Law Compliance
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Government + Regulatory Litigation
- Insurance + Reinsurance
- Life Sciences Transactions
- Litigation + Trial
- Mortgage Lending + Servicing
- Payments + Financial Technology
- Privacy + Cyber
- Regulatory Investigations, Strategy + Enforcement
- State Attorneys General
- Tobacco + Nicotine
- Virginia State Bar
- Metropolitan Richmond Women’s Bar Association
- Usher, past Sunday School teacher, St. James’s Episcopal Church
- Former board member, Seven Hills School, 2006-2012
- Volunteer coach, Richmond Sports Backers, Monument Avenue 10K
- Assistant attorney general/special counsel, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, 1995-2004
- Staff attorney, Lawyers’ Printing, Inc., 1994-1995
Education
- College of William & Mary, LL.M., 1996, taxation , Taxation
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1992, executive editor, Journal of Law and Politics
- College of William & Mary, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, 1989, assistant editor, The Colonial Echo
Bar Admissions
- Virginia
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Presenter, “The E-Cigarette Regulatory Environment: The Past, Present and Future of State & Local Regulations,” ABA Center for Professional Development, April 24, 2018.
- Co-presenter, “CFPB Charges Yet Another Mortgage Lender With Violations of the Loan Originator Compensation Rule,” Thomson Reuters, February 11, 2015.
- Presenter, “CFPB, FTC, State Regulators and Compliance,” Credit and Collection News Seminar, New York City, NY, September 17-18, 2013; Chicago, IL, October 1-2, 2013; Los Angeles, CA, November 12-13, 2013; Dallas, TX, December 3-4, 2013; Atlanta, GA, February 18-19, 2014.
- Presenter, “Emerging State Enforcement Activities and Investigations and the Growing Authority of the State Attorneys General,” Troutman Sanders seminar, May 2011.
- Co-author, “Oregon Bill Proposes to Replace Escrow Deposit System With “Equity Assessment” for Certain Tobacco Product Manufacturers,” Regulatory Oversight and Tobacco Law Blog, January 30, 2023.
- Co-author, “What Banking and the Financial Services Industry Can Expect From the Biden Administration,” Winter 2021 issue of Delaware Banker, February 17, 2021.
- Co-author, “DriveTime Settlement Is a Sign of the Times for CFPB,” Law360, December 10, 2014.
- Co-author, “CFPB Steps Up Efforts to Fundamentally Reform Indirect Auto Finance Industry in Face of Growing Resistance,” Terralex Connections, December 9, 2014.
- Co-author, “Hey Legislators: Vaping Products Don’t Belong in the MSA!,“ Smokeshop, December 2014.
- Co-author, “Enhanced Consumer Law Enforcement: Class Actions Often Follow,” Executive Counsel Magazine, December 2013.
- Co-author, “Red Flags Rule Protects Patients,” American Academy of Professional Coders, Coding Edge, February 2009.
- Co-author, “Congress Again Considers FDA Regulation,” Smokeshop Magazine, April 2007.