RESPRO’s 2021 fall conference opens this week in Scottsdale, Ariz. with Phil Schulman, senior counsel at Mayer Brown LLP, kicking off the three-day festivities Monday with a master class on the Art of Joke Telling.
Schulman, known in the settlement service industry for both his legal expertise and his ability to put a crowd at ease with his self-deprecating humor, was a longtime partner at Mayer Brown’s Washington, D.C. office before transitioning to his new role at the company in January.
On Tuesday, Schulman and Jay Varon, partner at Foley & Lardner, will lead the opening general session in a unique format. They have each made countless RESPA, UDAAP, enforcement and class action presentations all over the country. But this time, they’ll be skipping the speeches and jumping right into questions in a no-holds barred chance to Ask the Experts virtually anything.
Later that day, Safe Guard Cyber CEO and co-founder Jim Zuffoletti will be joined by Amanda Tucker, chief risk and compliance officer at Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group, and Emily Farley, chief lending officer at Atlantic Bay, in a panel discussion on navigating the increasing risk environment across social media channels.
Another hot topic will be “The Challenges of Applying RESPA in the Fintech Era” with Varon and fellow Foley & Lardney Partner Jennifer Keas.
In addition, Mayer Brown Partner Holly Spencer Bunting and Loretta Salzano, president of Franzen & Salzano, will be presenting tips on how to navigate real-life compliance scenarios under RESPA.
On Wednesday, Katten & Temple Of Counsel Brian Levy and Mark Meyer, founder and CEO of MLinc, Inc., will be teaming up in the session, “Know Your Compliant RESPA Narrative: Un-becoming a ‘RESPA Get-Arounder.’ ”
Meanwhile, Ballard Spahr Partner Rich Andreano will be discussing what members of the mortgage, title, real estate brokerage and settlement service industries need to watch out for now that the Biden administration has signaled its intent to focus on fair housing and fair lending. Topics to be covered include the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s plan to replace the Trump era 2020 disparate impact rule with the Obama era 2013 rule, the use of special purpose credit programs under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, concerns with new forms of marketing and advertising, and potential new frontiers for fair housing and fair lending enforcement.
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