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Leslie Fales first joined Severson in 2019.  She is a natural born litigator with broad experience that enables her to handle a wide spectrum of cases.  As a member of the Firm’s Insurance and Construction Practice groups, Leslie routinely and successfully defends clients in matters involving premises liability, catastrophic injuries, habitability, construction defects, products liability, wrongful termination, discrimination and sexual harassment,… Read More

Severson & Werson is proud to announce that we have once again achieved Mansfield Certification Plus for 2023–24! Mansfield's structured, data-driven approach empowers us to be deliberate and focused in identifying and advancing top talent. Mansfield asks us to make advancement processes transparent and to ensure broad talent pools are considered for leadership roles, creating a level playing field for… Read More

On August 26, 2024, Megan Aldworth, Stephen Britt, Lanz Lipana, and Abinaya Prabakar presented for the American Bar Association’s Consumer Financial Services Committee. As panelists, they provided a month in review of recent developments and trends in consumer financial services. Topics included the future of consumer wires under the Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA) and Regulation E, the CFPB’s proposed… Read More

Severson & Werson is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Farrell has been promoted to a non-equity member of the Firm. Liz joined Severson in 2013 as an attorney in the Financial Services Group. She quickly became an integral part of that practice group, handling the large number of cases involving mortgage servicing claims.  Liz has gone on to develop expertise… Read More

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Severson & Werson is proud to announce Scott J. Hyman has been elected as a fellow of The American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers (ACCFSL).  Membership to the ACCFSL is by invitation only and Mr. Hyman was selected based on his achievements and contributions in consumer financial services law.  The ACCFSL is a professional association of lawyers who are… Read More

On April 12, Scott Hyman presented an Update on the California DFPI to attendees of the Credit and Collection News Conference in Torrey Pines, California.   Read More

Rhonda Nelson, Mary Kate Sullivan and Katherine Figueroa attended the Women in Consumer Finance Conference at the InsideArm Conference in Palm Springs on December 4-7, 2022. The conference was engaging, inclusive, and fun. We connected with like-minded women that inspired us with their stories and experiences. Joining with women in the industry including our clients and colleagues in one place… Read More

  We are so excited to be sponsoring #LIRC22 this year. The Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference focuses on the trends and hot issues in litigation & regulatory compliance for the residential lending community, panels will feature some of the nation’s leading industry experts; this event is one you can’t miss. As a proud sponsor, we invite you to… Read More

Three Severson & Werson attorneys were panelists at the Fall Conference on Consumer Financial Law on October 20-21 in Plano, Texas, the primary focus of which was Vehicle Finance. The Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL) is a non-profit organization founded in 1926 by members of the legal profession and the financial services industry to offer educational services, publications and… Read More

– Midsize Mansfield Rule Has Now Grown to 140+ Participating Firms with Additional Cohorts – SAN FRANCISCO (May 5, 2022) — Diversity Lab announced today that 26 midsize law firms (listed below) have achieved the inaugural Midsize Mansfield Rule Certification. These certified firms have completed a rigorous 18-month collaboration with Diversity Lab — beginning in September 2020 — to track,… Read More

Severson is pleased to announce the addition of four new attorneys to its Orange County office. Kere Tickner and Michelle McCliman will be joining the firm as Members, along with Associates Stephen Kitagawa and Vanessa Dao, and legal secretary Elizabeth May.  We are excited to have such well-respected attorneys and their legal secretary join our team! Read More

Severson & Werson is proud to announce Orange County Managing Partner, Genevieve Walser-Jolly has been appointed to a 4-year term as the Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Privacy and Data Security Subcommittee of the Consumer Financial Services Committee, after which time she will assume a 2-year position in the role as Chairperson of the Subcommittee.  Congratulations to Ms. Walser-Jolly… Read More

Under the March 2020 CARES Act, borrowers with federally-backed mortgage loans were able to request a 180-day forbearance on their loan payments if the borrower attested to a COVID-related hardship. That 180-day period could be extended for an additional 180-days upon the borrower’s request. In February 2021, the FHA, FHFA, USDA and VA announced that they were extending their forbearance… Read More

In a 9-0 opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court today sided with Facebook and with what defendants have been arguing for years: that equipment that lacks capacity to generate random or sequential numbers to be called, and merely dials set lists of numbers, is not regulated autodialer equipment under the TCPA. This case resolved a split among circuit courts, rejecting the… Read More

Severson & Werson attorneys Scott Hyman and Laszlo Ladi (along with Paul Soter from the Law Offices of Paul Soter) co-authored an article in the Conference on Consumer Finance Law Quarterly, one of the nation’s preeminent publications on consumer financial services legal developments, on California’s new debt collection licensing scheme and “mini-CFPB” legislation and their impact on those collecting consumer… Read More

Severson & Werson congratulates Joel Halverson as the new Chair of the Firm’s Construction Practice Group. Mr. Halverson is an experienced trial lawyer and transactional counselor committed to servicing the design, construction, real estate, and insurance communities. He is adept at resolving clients’ legal problems and guarding them against losses. With over 25 years of practice primarily focused on the… Read More

Severson & Werson member Jarlath Curran will be speaking on “Hot Litigation Topics” at the upcoming California MBA Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference on January 12-13th, 2020. Mr. Curran represents major financial institutions, including banks, mortgage lenders, consumer finance companies and auto finance companies, in all stages of litigation. Read More

At the behest of the editors of the Conference on Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report, Stephen Britt of the Firm’s Orange County Office co-authored an article with Rebecca Fuller of St. Mary’s School of Law on the impact of the Quarterly Report on consumer financial services.  The Article, Quarterly Report Impact Analysis, analyses empirical data of judicial citations of articles published… Read More

On September 30, 2020, the Firm’s DPO, Scott Hyman, sat on a panel entitled “Data Breach and Malware Insights” on with Steve Kerler, Steve Mejia, BSEE MMIS and Jeff Tutton, MSc., QSA, CCFE.   The Panel was the first of PrivacyOC’s Fall Series. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stevekerler_cpra-ccpa-privacyoc-activity-6717239710797959168-QJws   Read More