Events

Heather Morse, McGlinchey Stafford’s Chief Business Development Officer, will participate in a panel presentation, "Casting a Wider Net: Rethinking Demand Generation for Mid-Law Business Development Teams," at the Thomson Reuters 33rd Annual Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer Forum on January 21, 2026, in Amelia Island, Florida.

Associates Andrew Albrittion and Madeline Earles will present "Hot Topics in HR" at the New Orleans Bar Association's 2025 Procrastinators' Programs on December 29, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Aaron Kouhoupt will present a session on "Understanding the Basics of Payments Law" during the Nacha Payments Legal & Compliance Summit on Wednesday, December 3, 2025.

Chief Strategy and Operations Officer Jessica VanTroost will present "The Resilient Administrator: Staying Grounded Amid Uncertainty and Change" at the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) New Orleans Chapter November Breakfast Meeting on November 20, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Attorneys Aaron Kouhoupt and Sandy Shatz will present at the Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL) 2025 Fall Consumer Financial Services Conference at Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas, on November 20-21, 2025.

Sandy Shatz (Irvine) will present two sessions at the California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA) 2025 Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference in Irvine, California, on December 8, 2025.

Join Chief Strategy and Operations Officer Jessica VanTroost and Business Development Manager Susan VanWingen at the Centerbase webinar "Fun Is Not Illegal — Building Culture Inside Law Firms" on December 2, 2025, as they share how the firm transformed 18 offices across 12 states into one connected, energized, people-first community.

Member Robert Savoie (Cleveland) will moderate a panel on legislating the future of finance on November 18, 2025, during the 2025 American FinTech Council (AFC) Policy Summit.

Sanford Shatz and Alexander Green will lead a panel on legal ethics during McGlinchey’s 24th Annual Consumer Finance Legal Conference on October 24, 2025.  The presenters will use the wit and wisdom of baseball legend Yogi Berra to take a lighthearted but insightful look at ethical and professional responsibilities of in-house and outside counsel in today’sMore

Aaron Kouhoupt and Robert Savoie will lead a panel examining the laws defining what constitutes “lending” and how they are not as straightforward as they seem during McGlinchey’s 24th Annual Consumer Finance Legal Conference on October 23, 2025. The answer can carry significant regulatory, compliance, and litigation consequences. Aaron and Robert will examine how federal andMore

Member Jeff Barringer (Albany) will lead a Government Affairs panel during McGlinchey’s 24th Annual Consumer Finance Legal Conference on October 22, 2025.  The panel will bridge the gap between legal, compliance, and government affairs teams and explore how stakeholders are addressing issues and what coordinated efforts can achieve. Among other things, the panelists will exploreMore

Robert Savoie will lead a panel on building programs and products in the world of artificial intelligence on October 22, 2025, during McGlinchey’s 24th Annual Consumer Finance Legal Conference. Outside and in-house counsel will discuss their experience building products and developing programs from the compliance and legal perspective, including practical AI complications. Learn more.

Arbitration remains one of the most debated and strategically important issues in consumer finance litigation. Megan Ben’Ary and Jim Sandy will lead a panel on “Clause and Effect: Rethinking Arbitration in Consumer Finance” during McGlinchey’s 24th Annual Consumer Finance Legal Conference on October 22, 2025. With two seasoned litigators and two experienced in-house counsel on the panel,More

Of Counsel Sanford Shatz (Irvine) will co-present "Fundamentals of Reverse Mortgages and Their Legal Ramifications" at the Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) Real Estate Law Section Meeting on October 28, 2025, in Newport Beach, California.

Member Angie Christina (New Orleans) will co-present "Top 10 Things Every Associate Should Know" at the New Orleans Bar Association Big Easy Bootcamp on October 29, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Member Jim Milano (Washington, DC) will moderate the M&A Changes panel at the Texas Housing Summit on November 4, 2025.

Of Counsel Hillel Frankel (Nashville) will moderate "Copyright and Music Creation in the Age of AI: Splits, Royalties, and Rights," hosted by the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville on October 9, 2025.

Member Kelly Lipinski (Cleveland) will present "Navigating Legal Issues in Private Loan Origination and Servicing" at the 2025 NCHER Fall Legal Meeting on October 9, 2025, in Denver, Colorado.

Heather Morse, McGlinchey Stafford’s Chief Business Development Officer, will participate in a panel presentation, "Beyond the Billable Hour: Mastering Relationship Development to Build a Thriving Legal Practice," with myLawCLE on October 1, 2025.

Member Aaron Kouhoupt will co-present “Hot Potato: Rapid-Fire Regulatory Updates on the Hottest Topics in Payments” at Nacha’s Payments Innovation Alliance October 2025 Fall Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, on October 8, 2025.

Member Matt Manning (Houston) presented a session on Auto Financing on September 18, 2025, during the 21st Annual Course on Advanced Consumer & Commercial Law in Austin, Texas. This annual CLE is co-sponsored by TexasBarCLE and the Consumer & Commercial Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. Learn more.

Of Counsel Melissa Losch is presenting "Accommodations and the Interactive Process Pursuant to the ADA and PWFA" at the Louisiana State Association of School Personnel Administrators (LSASPA) 2025 Fall Conference on September 25, 2025, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Member Aaron Kouhoupt will present a Deep Dive Round Table at the AI-Native Banking and Fintech Conference on "AI-Driven Financial Products: Fair Lending, Compliance, and Consumer Protection in Consumer Finance," hosted by Spring Labs, at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, on September 30, 2025.

Member Robert Savoie will moderate the "AI in Action: Use Cases from the Leading Banks and FinTechs" panel presentation at the AI-Native Banking and Fintech Conference at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, on September 30, 2025.

Several McGlinchey attorneys will present during the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Compliance and Risk Management Conference in Washington, DC, September 28-30, 2025.

Member Mag Bickford will present "Hot Topics: Being Nimble, What HR Leaders Need to Know to Survive These Changing Times" at the 2025 SHRM New Orleans Annual Conference and Legal Summit on September 18, 2025.

Of Counsel Melissa Losch is presenting at the 2025 Louisiana School Supervisors' Association Conference on "Legal Responsibilities Under IDEA and Section 504, Including Procedural Safeguards, Accommodations, and Current Enforcement Trends" at the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino on September 17, 2025, in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

On Tuesday, September 16, 2025, Jeff Barringer will join a legislative update session during the New York Mortgage Bankers Association (NYMBA) 2025 Annual Convention in Verona, NY. Jeff and his fellow panelists will discuss various bills in the legislature that the NYMBA either supports or opposes for the forthcoming year. The NYMBA 2025 Convention brings togetherMore

McGlinchey attorneys will participate in multiple sessions during the upcoming American Bar Association (ABA) 2025 Business Law Fall Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Today’s music industry creates a range of ethical challenges for music lawyers, from navigating potential fee disputes to representing a band vs. its individual members, wearing multiple business hats, attorney advertising activities, including the use of social media, navigating difficult client relationships and terminating representation, digital privacy, and more. Of Counsel Hillel Frankel (Nashville) willMore

Member Mag Bickford (New Orleans) will co-present "Employer Leave Limbo - Avoiding Liability" at the 19th Annual Employment Practices Liability Insurance ExecuSummitFall Session in Uncasville, CT, on September 16, 2025.

Of Counsel Sanford Shatz (Irvine) will moderate the California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA) "Foreclosure & Bankruptcy Roundtable Discussion" webinar on September 9, 2025.

Of Counsel Melissa Losch (New Orleans) will present "Students with Disabilities Discipline & MDRs" to the St. Landry Parish School Principals' Meeting on September 11, 2025.

On Thursday, August 28, Brandon B. Brown will participate in a session on "Regulatory Whiplash: What Shifting Federal Priorities Mean for Compliance & Risk" during the NABCRMP 2025 Annual Summit.

In this next installment of our Deep Dives into Lending series, McGlinchey attorneys Aaron Kouhoupt, Jim Sandy, and Robert Savoie will examine the latest developments shaping the space, with an eye toward both compliance and litigation trends in this interactive webinar.

Member Jim Sandy (Cleveland) will present a National Business Institute (NBI) webinar, "Foreclosure Rules, Trends, and Case Law," on August 6, 2025.

Intensive learning. Actionable insight.Invaluable takeaways for financial services legal and compliance professionals.  October 22–24, 2025New Orleans, LA Join McGlinchey’s industry-leading Consumer Financial Services Compliance and Litigation teams, colleagues from complementary practice groups, and guest speakers for three fast-paced days of engaging programming addressing important topics affecting the consumer financial services industry. #CONFIN25 will offer unmatched,More

Members Aaron Kouhoupt and Robert Savoie (Cleveland) will moderate a conversation with Ky Tran-Trong of Visa, Chris Rigoni of Axiom Bank, N.A. and Gary Stein of Accenture for an in-depth discussion on the US regulatory framework surrounding payment programs in American Fintech Council's the Future of Finance Webinar Series: Routing Payment Innovation Within Regulatory Checkpoints on July 24, 2025.

Attorneys Magdalen Bickford and Madeline Earles will be joined by Summer Associate Jayla Pruitt in a presentation on "2025 Human Resources Updates: Handbooks, Laws, and New Practices," to the Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants on July 22, 2025.

Of Counsel Sanford Shatz will present "OCBA Banking & Lending Section Meeting" at the Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) Banking & Lending Section Meeting on July 15, 2025.

Member Courtney Joiner (Baton Rouge) is presenting "Strategies for Increasing Diversity When the Metrics Are Not There" at the 2025 Diversity for Success Seminar on June 12, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Member Kelly Lipinski (Cleveland) will moderate a panel at the National Council of Higher Education Resources (NCHER) Annual Conference "Ask the Lawyers: 2025's Changing Regulatory Landscape" on June 4, 2025, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Members of McGlinchey’s Financial Institutions Compliance team will participate in multiple sessions during the upcoming Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL) Annual Consumer Financial Services Conference at Loyola Law School in Chicago, Illinois.

On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, Robert Savoie will participate in the panel session "From Legal Obscurity to Innovation in Consumer Credit: The Shift Towards Responsible Access through Non-Traditional Methods," during the NACCA 90th Annual Meeting and Regulators' Training Symposium.

Praying for deregulation is not a safe haven nor a good compliance strategy for consumer lenders.

Members of McGlinchey’s Financial Institutions Compliance team will participate in multiple sessions during the upcoming MBA Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference, May 14-17 in San Diego.

Member Kelly Lipinski (Cleveland) will present “State Legislative and Regulatory Trends – Stepping into the Void?” on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, during the 2025 Student Loan Servicing Alliance (SLSA) Annual Meeting in Arlington, TX.

Member Brandon B. Brown co-presented a session on "Search and Surveillance in the Digital Age" during the 2025 Judicial Conference of the Fifth Circuit.

Heather Morse, McGlinchey Stafford’s Chief Business Development Officer, will participate in a panel presentation, "Baton Rouge-New Orleans Driving Change: CMOs on the Technological Frontlines of Legal Marketing," with Legal Marketing Association New Orleans/Baton Rouge Local Group on June 4, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Strategic Operations Administrator Jessica VanTroost will co-facilitate two Shared Interest Group (SIG) meetings during the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

Attorneys from McGlinchey's Financial Services Compliance, Financial Services Litigation, and Corporate/Real Estate Groups will participate in the American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Spring Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 24 through April 26.

Member Angie Christina led a panel on "The Ethical Era: Avoid the Landmine by Avoiding the Minefield” at the NOBA 2025 Bench Bar Conference.

McGlinchey is pleased to announce the 2025 annual Dermot S. McGlinchey Lecture on Federal Litigation at Tulane Law School, featuring distinguished legal scholar Melissa Murray, Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.

Hillel Frankel (Nashville) is moderating a presentation titled "Hey Managers, When Does Your Artist Need a Lawyer? "Lawyers, When Does Your Artist Need a Manager?" at 2112 Creator House's The Future of Creative, Innovation, & Ownership on March 12, 2025.

Attorneys Christopher Greenidge and Sanford Shatz will co-present "California's New Banking and Lending Laws and Legislation" at the Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) Banking & Lending Section Meeting on March 10, 2025.

Member Mag Bickford (New Orleans) will join a panel discussion, "A Co-Ed Discussion of Implicit Bias & Legal Culture, CLE Opportunity," at the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, Courtroom C-501, on March 11, 2025.

Senior Communications and Public Relations Manager Lauren Michaud Knotts (Baton Rouge) will co-present "How To Write Right: Supporting Your Authors in Generating Quality, Consistent Content" at JD Supra Office Hours on March 11, 2025.

Strategic Operations Administrator Jessica VanTroost will present "Your ALA Essential Resource Guide: What To Have In Your Pack" at the Association of Legal Administrators Essentials of Chapter Leadership on March 18, 2025.

Strategic Operations Administrator Jessica VanTroost will co-present "Rising Together: Identifying Tomorrow’s Leaders and Empowering Volunteer Growth" at the 2025 Association Leadership Institute on March 7, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois.

Member Courtney Joiner (Baton Rouge) presented "A Black History Program: African Americans and Labor" at the University of Louisiana Monroe.

Hillel Frankel will participate in a panel with industry leaders hosted by the Copyright Society of the South on "Restoring Trust in the Age of AI, Rights of Publicity, and Copyright."

On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, Paul Lysobey and Jim Sandy (Cleveland) will co-present a CLE webinar on "Managing Risks and Opportunities in a Shifting Landscape" for the Knowledge Group.

Strategic Operations Administrator Jessica VanTroost will present an overview of membership in the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) to the Kansas City Chapter of the ALA on Thursday, January 16, 2024.

Join McGlinchey's Deep Dives series for an in-depth exploration of open banking, a transformative trend reshaping financial services.

Member Chase Stoecker is presenting a National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) webinar, "Committee Insights: Hot Topics in HR," on December 12, 2024.

New Orleans attorneys José Cot and Taylor Willis will present "Appeals Procedures" at the NBI Webinar on Louisiana Workers' Compensation Fundamentals on December 16, 2024.

Of Counsel Sandy Shatz (Irvine) will co-present "Not Just for Attorneys: Preserving, Protecting, and Using the Attorney-Client Privilege" at the California Mortgage Bankers Association Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference on December 9, 2024, in Irvine, California.

Member Aaron Kouhoupt (Cleveland) will present "Dodd-Frank 1033 and the ACH Network" at the Nacha Payments Legal & Compliance Summit on December 5, 2024.

New Orleans attorneys Mag Bickford and Susanne Veters Cooper will present "Handbooks and Hot Topics" at the Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants 2024 Winter Cluster on November 22, 2024, in Biloxi, Mississippi.

ember Brad Barback (Baton Rouge) will present "BRBA Construction Law Legal Update" to the Baton Rouge Business Association Construction Law Section in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on November 21, 2024.

Members of McGlinchey’s Financial Institutions Compliance, Financial Services Litigation, and Enterprise Litigation and Investigations teams will participate in multiple sessions during the upcoming Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL) Fall Consumer Financial Services Conference at SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas.

Member Rudy Cerone (New Orleans) will co-present "Mergers and Acquisitions for Capital Markets – Exits and Distressed Asset Opportunities" at the 13th Annual MJBizCon in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 3, 2024.

Member Robert Savoie (Cleveland) will moderate a panel presentation, "Where is the Love: Bridging the Gap Between Regulators, Banks and Fintech to Serve Consumers," at the American Fintech Council (AFC) Policy Summit on November 19, 2024.

Member Robert Savoie (Cleveland) presented "Dark Patterns and UDAAP – A New Name (and New Standards) for Old Concerns" to clients on October 24, 2024.

Member Jeff Barringer (Albany) is co-presenting a New York Mortgage Bankers Association webinar series, "Effective Advocacy in Your Home District," on October 9 and October 16, 2024. Jeff review to prepare, appear, and deliver information on the various NY Legislative Bills.

The final installment in McGlinchey’s Deep Dive Series covering all things payments is a client-only CLE webinar featuring attorneys from McGlinchey’s Financial Institutions Compliance team.

Of Counsel Melissa Losch (New Orleans) is co-presenting an NBI Webinar, "Advising Guardians of Children with Disabilities: SNTs, Benefits, and More," on October 4, 2024.

Member Robert Savoie (Cleveland) will join a panel presentation, "Generative AI Transparency: State and Federal Legislative Approaches," at the AI-Native Banking & Fintech Conference hosted by Spring Labs on October 7, 2024.

Senior Communications and Public Relations Manager Lauren Michaud Knotts (Baton Rouge) will co-present "Bridging the Gap: Five Key Tips Legal Reporters Want You to Know" at the 2024 Tech West & Southwest LMA Conference on October 24, 2024.

Of Counsel David Waxman (Cleveland) is joining a panel presentation, "Inside the Cannabis Legal Maze," at the Ohio Cannabis Health & Business Summit on October 4, 2024.

Join a conversation with Heather Morse, McGlinchey Stafford's Chief Business Development Officer in a JD Supra Webinar on September 12, 2024.

Members of McGlinchey’s Financial Institutions Compliance and Enterprise Litigation and Investigations teams will participate in multiple sessions during the upcoming Mortage Bankers Association (MBA) Compliance and Risk Management Conference (CRMC) in Washington, DC.

Member Stefanie Deka (Cleveland) will present an NBI CLE entitled "Foreclosure Rights and Defenses" on September 20, 2024.

Associate Justin K. Sauls (Dallas) is presenting the "Fair Credit Reporting Act Update" at the 20th Annual TexasBarCLE Advanced Consumer & Commercial Law on September 13, 2024.

Member Jeff Barringer (Albany) will join a panel presentation, "Legislative Lobbying 101 & Ask the Experts," at the New York Mortgage Bankers Association (NYMBA) 10th Anniversary Convention on September 6, 2024, in Verona, New York.

Member Aaron Kouhoupt (Cleveland) will join a panel presentation: "Rescheduling Impacts on Cannabis Banking," at the Payments Banking Compliance (PBC) Conference on September 4, 2024, in Washington, DC.

Member Jim Sandy (Cleveland) will co-present a Strafford webinar on “Mass Arbitration Logistics: New JAMS, AAA Rules, Fees; Process Arbitrators; Batching; Streamlining Tactics” on August 22, 2024.

Member Robert Savoie (Cleveland) will join the “Industry Panel” at the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators (AARMR) Annual Regulatory Conference & Training in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 8, 2024.

Chief Business Development Officer Heather Morse will participate in a panel presentation at the Answering Legal Summer Reboot Camp 2024, "Discussing the Current State of Legal Marketing & What Comes Next," on August 14, 2024.

Jessica VanTroost will facilitate an “Idea Exchange: Social Media and Marketing” on July 20, 2024, during the ALA Chapter Leadership Institute Conference in Salt Lake City, UT.

Jessica VanTroost will co-present "PowerPoint Presentation Legends Among Us: Celebrating Excellence and Achievement" on July 20, 2024, during the ALA Chapter Leadership Institute Conference in Salt Lake City, UT.

Member Jim Sandy (Cleveland) is presenting a Federal Bar Association webinar "Mastering Arbitration Agreements: Creation, Claims, Class and Collective Waivers, and Ethical Hearings," on June 20, 2024.

Member Susan Desmond (New Orleans) will present a GRC Educators Webinar, "Handling FMLA Abuse," on June 25, 2024.

Member Mag Bickford (New Orleans) will co-present "Personal & Professional Equilibrium: Balancing Physical Health & Career Demands" at the 2024 Power Up: Women's Leadership Conference on June 6, 2024, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Member Susan Desmond (New Orleans) will present an Aurora Training Advantage Live Webinar, "Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)'s Pregnancy Compliance," on June 11, 2024.

Member Susan Desmond (New Orleans) will present a GRC Educators Webinar, "Documenting Misconduct That Will Stand Up In Court," on May 15, 2024.

Of Counsel Michael Blumenthal (Cleveland) will co-present "Protecting Against Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) Liabilities in M+A Transactions and Property Transfers" at the American Conference Institute (ACI)'s Summit on PFAS Regulation, Compliance, and Litigation.

Members Susan Desmond (New Orleans) and Marcelle Mouledoux (New Orleans) will present the "Sexual Assault & Sexual Harassment Panel" at Marine Industry Day 2024 on May 10, 2024.