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2:00 – 2:30 pm: Compliance | Responding to Increased Scrutiny of RESPA With new leadership at the CFPB, the future of RESPA enforcement is evolving. Explore how RESPA enforcement may change under this administration, potential shifts in legal interpretation, and the rise of state-level...

Compliance Considerations For Real-Estate Joint Ventures This panel will discuss potential legal challenges to joint ventures between real estate agents and title companies or mortgage brokers and best practices for compliance.

MBA’s Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference takes place from May 14-15 in San Diego . This is the premier event for legal and compliance professionals in real estate finance to learn strategies to help your company navigate the changing market. Wednesday, May 14, 2025 12:30 PM-1:45 PM...

Brandon Brauer will speak as a panelist at the National ABA RPTE Conference on May 1, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The title of the session is " Betting on Success: Title and Survey Coverage for Commercial Construction Projects." This panel presentation will focus on common title and survey issues in...

Compliance & Coffee: All About Affiliated Business Arrangements Affiliated Business Arrangements (ABAs) are a key component of RESPA compliance and often a source of confusion. In this session of Compliance & Coffee, we're diving into what ABAs actually are, how RESPA defines violations and...

Day One, Wednesday, April 9 11:30am – 12:30pm: All of the Above Energy Options -Pipelines, Power Plants, and Solar Arrays – Development and Permitting in Pennsylvania Pamela S. Goodwin, Esq. 4:00pm – 5:00pm: Enforcement of Environmental Crimes from the Prosecution and Defense Perspective Justin C...

How Are State AGs Attempting to Redefine RESPA Compliance Several states' AGs have recently attempted to redefine what is and is not a complaint affiliated business under Section 8(c)(4). Understanding these erroneous approaches is necessary to have a compliant AfBA and know how to push back.

Pamela Goodwin will be a panelist at the ABA's 54th Spring Conference on Environmental Law on March 28, 2025, in Philadelphia. The topic that Pamela and her co-panelists will be discussing is " Cooperative Federalism or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bureaucracy —Water Regulation...

The Trump administration has declared March 12, 2025, as “the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in the history of the United States.” United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Lee Zeldin, issued various press releases (linked on our Environmental Executive...

On February 25, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued an interim final rule [1] rescinding its regulations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The CEQ’s action, in response to President Trump’s Unleashing American Energy Executive Order, [2] comes fifty-six years...

Appeal deadline is currently March 14. Council has introduced an ordinance to extend deadline to March 31, 2025. The ordinance will not be considered until March 13. At a specially scheduled meeting held March 5, New Castle County Council introduced an ordinance to extend the deadline to file...

In this presentation, Saul Ewing attorneys Richard Forsten and Pam Scott discussed the current status of the reassessment process, what is involved in pursuing an appeal, and whether an appeal makes sense for your property. Time is running short if you want to appeal the assessment for your property...

On February 1, 2025, President Donald Trump terminated Rohit Chopra’s tenure as the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Early on the morning of February 3, 2025, the CFPB issued a press release noting that recently-confirmed Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent had been...

For the past decade, many courts have found class action waivers in consumer contracts to be valid and enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act. However, recently, the Allegheny Court of Common Pleas in Pittsburgh recognized not all clauses warrant enforcement in Pierce v. FloatMe Corp., No. GD...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) filed an action on December 23, 2024, against Rocket Home Real Estate LLC (“Rocket Homes”), a real estate brokerage and affiliates (“Defendant Brokerage”) and an individual owner of the real estate brokerage, asserting violations of the Real Estate...

After nearly a year of speculation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a final rule (the “Rule”) to cap overdraft fees that financial institutions with at least $10 billion in assets can assess to consumers. The CFPB has hailed the issuance of the Rule as permitting “consumers...

Saul Ewing LLP's Consumer Financial Services Litigation Practice hosted their annual CLE program on Thursday, December 12. This program provided updates on consumer financial services civil litigation and government enforcement trends, including federal and state governments' top consumer protection...

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