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Tara Elgie
- Phone214.979.8212
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Work Department
Financial Services Litigation and Compliance
Position
Partner
Career
Ms. Elgie provides compliance and litigation advice to financial institutions related to federal and state consumer protection laws. She has extensive experience defending and advising financial institutions in consumer finance litigation and regulatory compliance matters. Ms. Elgie regularly defends financial institutions in litigation involving various provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Truth In Lending Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, and various state statutes related to consumer protection and unfair and deceptive acts and practices.
Ms. Elgie’s consumer finance litigation and compliance experience crosses various product lines, including mortgage, auto, credit card, student loans, and FinTech. She currently works with a team that serves as national consumer bankruptcy counsel for a national bank. Ms. Elgie also works with a team defending a mortgage servicer against Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims throughout the country.
She has significant experience helping clients develop and enhance internal programs and processes to ensure compliance with federal and state consumer protection statutes. For example, she has advised a national bank in overhauling its policies and procedures for originating and servicing mortgage accounts in bankruptcy.
Memberships
Admitted to the Texas and Virginia State Bars