Brian Levy, Of Counsel with Katten & Temple, LLP in Chicago, provides practical, creative and industry leading guidance for mortgage lenders and related providers. Brian has unique vision and experience enabling him to offer actionable counsel on matters such as RESPA (MSAs, AfBAs, etc.), LO compensation, mortgage repurchase defense, loan sale agreements, marketing, transactions and business structuring and enforcement issues. Brian is the author of the provocative and widely read Levy’s Mortgage Musings blog at www.mortgagemusings.com and is a frequent conference speaker, magazine contributor and webinar/podcast guest. Brian was General Counsel from 1994-2009 for a mid-sized midwestern bank and its 3 mortgage banking subsidiaries and prior to that worked for 5 years in commercial real estate law at a large firm in Chicago. Brian graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (A.B.,1986, Summa Cum Laude) and Harvard Law School (J.D.,1989).