EMERGING ISSUES TRACK: From Case to Compliance – Lessons from State RESPA Enforcement

Peter Carroll

EVP, Public Policy and Industry Relations, Cotality

Pete Carroll is Executive Vice President, Public Policy and Industry Relations with CoreLogic. Pete’s team drives enterprise strategic initiatives for CoreLogic, oversees industry engagement programs, leads enterprise positions on legislative, regulatory, and business policy developments, and expands opportunities for CoreLogic’s thought leadership and solutions expertise across the housing ecosystem. Carroll was Executive Vice President at Rocket Mortgage, where he led the development of Rocket Mortgage’s positions on a broad spectrum of public and counterparty policy issues. Earlier, he was Senior Vice President, Capital Markets, at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and was the Assistant Director (Head), Office of Mortgage Markets, at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), where he co-led the teams responsible for the original Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) mortgage rulemakings.

Charles Cain

Senior Vice President-National Agency, FNF Family of Companies

Chuck Cain is the Senior Vice President-National Agency of FNF Family of Companies and has been in the Title Insurance industry since 1977. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University and the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. He is admitted to practice in Ohio and Kentucky, as well as in several Federal District courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. He is a former trustee of the Ohio Land Title Association and a current member of ALTA's Government Affairs Committee. He is a former chair of the Real Property Section of the Cincinnati Bar Association, a former director of the Cincinnati Mortgage Bankers Association, a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s Fair Credit Task Force, and a recipient of a special citation from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development concerning Fair Housing Best Practices.

Eric D. Houser, Esq.

Managing Partner, Houser LLP

Eric D. Houser is the managing partner of Houser LLP. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego in 1984, and University of San Diego School of Law in 1987. Houser has been practicing law for over 39 years and has a national practice specializing in litigation & regulatory compliance. He has successfully tried cases in state and federal courts from Hawaii to Massachusetts and lots of places in between. Houser is a panel neutral of National Arbitration and Mediation, and a coordinator for Los Angelitos Orphanage in Tijuana Mexico. He has also been the chair of Food from the Bar Campaign for Second Harvest Food Bank in Orange County, California. Houser is on the Board of Trustees of Wagner College in New York.

Trip X. Riley, III

Partner, Chair of Consumer Financial Services Litigation Group, Saul Ewing

Francis "Trip" Riley, Partner and Chair of Consumer Financial Services Litigation Group at Saul Ewing, represents clients who are facing complex civil litigation filed by a single plaintiff, as well as class actions, arising from commercial and consumer financing, consumer-facing services and product sales, and business-to-business transactions and competition. He prides himself on understanding his clients' unique businesses and partners with them to help achieve results aligned with their goals in the often highly charged setting of civil litigation. However, when a difficult dispute cannot be resolved otherwise, he and his team are prepared to go to trial.

Marx Sterbcow

Managing Attorney, Sterbcow Law Group LLC

Marx Sterbcow, Managing Attorney at Sterbcow Law Group, is recognized as one of the leading attorneys in the financial settlement services industry. Sterbcow’s practice focuses on RESPA, UDAAP, TILA, Fair Lending Act, ECOA, and other administrative and regulatory compliance matters. He advises banks, non-bank lenders, title insurance agencies and underwriters, law firms, technology companies, and large real estate brokerages across the US involving affiliated business arrangements, third-party vendor management, auditing, regulatory enforcement issues, social media oversight, mergers and acquisitions, and marketing and advertising compliance. He represents Townstone Financial, Meridian Title, and numerous others in CFPB enforcement actions.