Stefanie H. Jackman

Stefanie H. Jackman is a member of Ballard Spahr's Fair Lending Task Force and Collection Documentation Task Force. Ms. Jackman's practice focuses primarily on complex litigation in the area of consumer financial services and financial institutions law. She regularly defends financial institutions in mortgage-related litigation, credit card-related litigation, arbitration, commercial law, and class action defense. She handles litigation issues arising under an array of consumer financial laws, including state UDAP statutes, RESPA, TILA, FDCPA, FCRA, and SCRA. 

Ms. Jackman has experience advising clients in connection with civil investigative demands issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other governmental investigations. She is also experienced advising on other complex litigation matters in the areas of securities, employment class and collective actions, product liability, commercial contract matters, trademark disputes, and e-discovery.   

Representative Matters 

• Representing clients in the auto lending and student lending industries in connection with civil investigative demands from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• Regularly serves as counsel for mortgage lenders, servicers, and MERS in numerous mortgage origination and foreclosure-related lawsuits in Georgia 
• Representing large banking institution in an action brought by the West Virginia State Attorney General alleging various deceptive trade practices in connection with payment protection products 
• Representing large banking institution in putative TILA class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama 
• Representing large mortgage lender in connection with breach of contract claims brought by former outside foreclosure counsel in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• Represented large mortgage servicer in a putative RESPA class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• Represented large mortgage servicer in a class action involving allegations of improper foreclosures based on "splitting the note" arguments in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• Represented multistate debt collection company in defending and settling 26 interrelated cases alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
• Represented large commercial client in a putative TCPA class action for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
• Represented payroll service provider in an international breach of contract and insurance dispute
• Represented independent directors of a nonpublic REIT in various securities actions brought by shareholders alleging violations of federal securities law
• Represented former executive of large construction company in connection with civil and criminal securities fraud claims brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice 
• Represented large commercial client in connection with a multimillion-dollar trademark infringement lawsuit
• Successfully defended, on both summary judgment and appeal, a large title insurance company in several real estate disputes over title to parcels of developed commercial property
• Represented national telecommunications company in a nationwide FLSA and state wage-and-hour collective/class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Professional Activities

American Bar Association
Atlanta Bar Association
Barrister, The Lamar American Inn of Court, affiliated with Emory University School of Law

Recognition & Accomplishments

Named by Georgia Super Lawyers as a 2012 Rising Star (Litigation)

Recipient, Georgia Association for Women Lawyers Committee Star Award, 2007 and 2008

Publications

Co-author, "Viewpoint: Time To Prepare for Your CFPB Exam," Paybefore, January 2013

Co-author, "Challenging Progress: County Recorder Lawsuits Against MERS," Practising Law Institute, 2012

Co-author, "UDAP Class Actions and the Foreclosure Crisis – Potential Theories of Recovery and Defenses to Liability," Practising Law Institute, 2011

Co-author, "What Is and Attorney General’s Burden of Proof? Evidentiary Requirements in UDAP Actions Brought by State Attorneys General," Practising Law Institute, 2010

Co-author, "Electronic Discovery Issues and the New Federal Rules," BNA's Expert Evidence Report, 2007

Speaking Engagements

Ms. Jackman routinely speaks on topics relating to consumer financial services litigation. Recent presentations include:

Panelist, "Creditors, Collectors, and Debt Buyers Beware: What the FTC's Debt Buying Study Means for the Consumer Financial Services Industry," Ballard Spahr webinar, February 21, 2013

Panelist, "The CFPB Has Thrown Down the Fair Lending Gauntlet! Part II in a Ballard Spahr Webinar Series on the CFPB Education Loan Examination Procedures," Ballard Spahr webinar, January 16, 2013

Panelist, "The Office of Minority and Women Inclusion of the CFPB and Other Federal Agencies: What It Is and How To Prepare for It," Ballard Spahr webinar, November 5, 2012

Panelist, "How To Respond to a CFPB Civil Investigative Demands," Ballard Spahr webinar, August 29, 2012

Panelist, "The Top 10 Ways To Get in Trouble with the CFPB," Ballard Spahr webinar, August 14, 2012

Panelist, "Consumer Lending – Will Documentation Issues Affect Non-Mortgage Lending?" Ballard Spahr webinar, November 22, 2011

Emory University School of Law (J.D. 2006, with honors)
Articles Editor, Emory Law Journal; Member, Order of Barristers; Recipient, Moffett Litigation Award; Recipient, Top Advocate Award, Emory Mock Trial Society; Recipient, Debra Cohen de Rothschild Litigation Scholarship; Recipient, Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Special Commendation; Recipient, Dean's Public Service Award

University of Vermont (B.A. 2003, magna cum laude)
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; John Dewey Scholar

Languages

Spanish

Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit