Alan S. Kaplinsky

Alan S. Kaplinsky leads the firm's Consumer Financial Services Group, which has approximately 80 lawyers. Mr. Kaplinsky devotes his practice exclusively to counseling financial institutions on bank regulatory and transactional matters, particularly consumer financial services law, and defending financial institutions that have been sued by consumers in individual and class action lawsuits and by government enforcement agencies. Visit Mr. Kaplinsky's profile in Wikipedia.

Mr. Kaplinsky is heavily involved in counseling and representing clients in a wide variety of matters (regulatory, supervisory and enforcement) involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He was instrumental in launching a blog, CFPBMonitor.com, focused on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Mr. Kaplinsky pioneered the use of pre-dispute arbitration provisions in consumer contracts, has counseled numerous consumer financial services companies on this subject, and has defended in court numerous companies that have sought to enforce consumer arbitration agreements.

Mr. Kaplinsky is included in the 2006 through 2013 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of financial services regulation. Chambers calls him "a guru of consumer financial services on both the regulatory and litigation sides [who has] earned his well-deserved national reputation when successfully defending the very first class actions brought against financial institutions." In the 2012 edition, he is one of eight lawyers ranked nationwide in Band 1 of Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance), and one of five lawyers ranked in Band 1, Pennsylvania, for Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory. A recent edition states: "This practice ticks all the boxes, with one client praising its expertise in cutting-edge matters and exemplary service. The team excels in consumer financial services regulatory and enforcement work. Chair of the practice Alan Kaplinsky is highly recommended by market sources. [He is] at the forefront of the latest developments in the consumer financial services sector."

Professional Activities

American Bar Association, past Chair, Committee on Consumer Financial Services

Adviser to the American Law Institute (ALI) Restatement of the Law Third, Consumer Contracts

University of Pennsylvania Law School and Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, past Adjunct Professor

Recognition & Accomplishments

American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers, first President

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, leading lawyer in banking and finance: financial services regulation: consumer finance (compliance) (national ranking band one); and banking and finance: mainly regulatory (Pennsylvania band one), 2006-2013

The Best Lawyers in America, financial services regulation law, banking and finance litigation, and corporate law, 2007-2013

Named Best Lawyers' 2012 Philadelphia Litigation – Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year

The Legal 500 United States 2012, listed in 2011 and 2012 editions, Financial Services: Regulatory

American Law Institute, elected member since May 2006

Publications

Member, Financial Services Advisors, Consumer Financial Services Law Report

Co-author, "Open-End Credit Disclosures" and "Billing Error Resolution," chapters in the Truth in Lending treatise authored by Rohner and Miller, American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, 2000

Speaking Engagements

Chair (18 years), "Consumer Financial Services," Practising Law Institute Annual Institute, New York and Chicago

Frequent presenter to numerous organizations on banking and consumer financial services law

Boston College Law School (J.D.1970, cum laude)
Editor, Boston College Industrial and Commercial Law Review; Member, Order of the Coif

University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business (B.S. 1967, cum laude)

Pennsylvania