POLICY PRIORITIES TRACK: Today’s Top Regulatory Issues

Partner, Bradley

Dana Lumsden is a strategic business litigator and trusted legal advisor. His practice focuses on business litigation, including intellectual property disputes, securities litigation, investigations and enforcement proceedings, and the resolution of regulatory controversies concerning the consumer financial services industry. Dana advises and represents domestic and international companies, including some of the world’s largest financial institutions and manufacturers. In class action matters, he has successfully defended clients in putative class actions involving antitrust, securities, banking, and consumer finance claims. Dana also advises clients in the assessment of litigation risk and has the temperament and analytical approach to detail that often leads to the resolution of disputes prior to trial. He has tried cases in jurisdictions throughout the country and is admitted to practice before the New York, North Carolina, and Massachusetts state courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina, and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. In addition, he regularly practices before the North Carolina Business Court. Dana has been recognized as a top lawyer in the field of commercial litigation by Business North Carolina magazine. Dana devotes his time to the advancement of the legal profession and to improving the community, including work for and leadership on committees for the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), the North Carolina Bar Association, and the Mecklenburg County Bar Association.

Chief Risk Officer, Servbank

As the Chief Risk Officer at Servbank, Shayna is responsible for overseeing the Bank’s Risk and Compliance Management Programs. This includes oversight of legal and regulatory compliance, risk assessments, change management, policies and procedures, quality control, risk and compliance testing, examinations, and consumer complaint management. Shayna previously served as the Chief Compliance Officer at The Money Source Inc. (TMS) for over 6 years, where she was responsible for compliance across all business channels, including Correspondent, Servicing, Subservicing, and formerly the company’s Retail and Wholesale Origination Channels. Shayna previously worked at a mortgage banking focused law firm where she served as outside compliance counsel to a variety of lenders, servicers, and industry vendors. She has extensive government and regulatory experience, including time at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Justice. In 2017, Shayna was named to HousingWire’s Women of Influence, which recognizes the outstanding efforts of women in housing. In 2020, she was selected as one of National Mortgage Professional’s 40 under 40 Influential Achievers. Most recently, she was named as a 2022 Five Star Women in Housing finalist for the Authentic Leader Award.

Chairman and Managing Partner, Weiner Brodsky Kider PC

Mitchel H. Kider is the Chairman and Managing Partner of Weiner Brodsky Kider PC, a national law firm specializing in the representation of financial institutions, residential homebuilders, and real estate settlement service providers. Mitch represents banks, mortgage companies, homebuilders, credit card issuers, and other financial service companies in a broad range of litigation and regulatory and compliance matters. He defends clients in investigations and enforcement actions before the CFPB, HUD, DOJ, VA, FTC, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, and various state and local regulatory authorities and Attorneys General offices. Mitch is a Fellow of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers.

Partner, Bradley

Robert represents financial institutions and mortgage companies across the United States. He has handled matters both at the pre-litigation and initial complaint filing phase as well as being employed during discovery, to depose expert witnesses and at the pre-trial phase to assist the current counsel. On the compliance side, Robert has worked with both legal and business managers for multiple clients to draft and outline procedures in response to pending or new legislation. Robert is a regular speaker at national industry conferences. He is Faculty Fellow with MBA’s School of Mortgage Banking. Robert is an adjunct professor at the Cumberland School of Law and was previously an adjunct professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Partner, Goodwin

Sabrina Rose-Smith is a partner in Goodwin’s Consumer Financial Services Litigation practice, and serves on the firm’s Executive Committee. Sabrina defends financial institutions against consumer class actions and government enforcement actions, and provides litigation risk counseling to banks, credit card issuers, mortgage lenders and specialty and small-dollar FinTech companies. Recognized by Chambers USA as a “powerful legal advocate” who “always provides best-in-class advice and service,” Sabrina defends her clients in high stakes enforcement matters and class actions involving federal consumer lending laws, state and federal unfair and deceptive trade practices (UDAP) statutes and other alleged violations of law arising from her clients’ lending, servicing and/or collections activity.