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Amy has deep and wide-ranging experience in representing financial institutions in government enforcement matters, qui tam False Claims Act cases, consumer class actions and bankruptcy proceedings. She is adept in defending and providing pragmatic advice for the successful resolution of complex, multifaceted matters.

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Effective December 1, important changes are coming to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, including:

  • Eliminating the certificate of service for ECF-filed materials;
  • Mandating electronic service and filing, including of complaints, for persons represented by counsel;
  • Establishing a national signature standard for electronic filing systems; and
  • Updating the class action rule, with a focus on

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A district court in Wisconsin amplified the uncertainty facing TCPA litigants in the Seventh Circuit by holding that a predictive dialer constitutes an automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”), even if the device does not place random or sequentially dialed numbers.  In denying the defendant’s motion to dismiss, the court applied the ATDS definition …

On October 18, the Northern District of Georgia issued an Order denying attempts by defendants IDT Corporation and IDT Telecom, Inc. (collectively “IDT”) to strike a putative Telephone Consumer Protection Act class on grounds established in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017).   In Dennis v. IDT,…

Earlier this month, the Director of the Justice Department’s Civil Frauds Section issued a memorandum directing all DOJ attorneys evaluating False Claims Act (FCA) whistleblower cases to consider whether the government’s interests are best served by seeking a dismissal of questionable cases.  The memorandum was first published by The National Law Journal and is available…

On December 22, a federal court applied the plain language of the “whistleblower-protection provisions” of the False Claims Act, including 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h), to hold that a plaintiff may bring a retaliation claim against a former employer even if that employer was not the subject of any FCA allegations.  In O’Hara v. NIKA Technologies…

On Tuesday, September 12, from 2-3 p.m. ET, Join Troutman Sanders for a webinar discussing the recent cases brought by cities and counties against mortgage originators and servicers under the Fair Housing Act, the Supreme Court’s decision in Bank of America Corp. v. City of Miami, 581 U.S. –, 137 S.Ct. 1296 (2017),…