Consumer Financial Services Group

Senior Counsel and former longtime Practice Leader of the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group

Alan Kaplinsky is the former longtime Practice Leader of the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group, which has more than 80 lawyers in 13 offices. Alan devotes his practice exclusively to managing the Group and counseling financial institutions on bank regulatory and transactional matters, particularly consumer financial services law, and defending financial institutions that have been sued by consumers in individual and class action lawsuits and by government enforcement agencies.

Admissions: Pennsylvania, New York, U.S. Supreme Court

Publications

Member, Financial Services Advisors, Consumer Financial Services Law Report

The Business Lawyer (a publication of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section) Annual Survey of Consumer Financial Services Law

ABA Consumer Financial Services Committee, Past Chair

American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers, first President

PLI Consumer Financial Services Annual Institute, Co-Chair for 24 years

Advisor to American Law Institute Restatement of the Law Third, Consumer Contracts

Boston College Law School (J.D. 1970); University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business (B.S. 1967)