John Culhane > Ballard Spahr LLP > Philadelphia, United States > Lawyer Profile
Ballard Spahr LLP Offices
1735 MARKET STREET, 51ST FLOOR
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103-7599
PENNSYLVANIA
United States
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John Culhane
Career
John L. Culhane, Jr., is a senior partner in the Consumer Financial Services Group. His compliance practice emphasizes counseling clients on the development and implementation of innovative loan, leasing, and payment programs, with a focus on student loan origination, servicing, and collections.
Admissions: California, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Publications – Former Editor, Annual Survey of Consumer Financial Services Law; Co-Author, ABA Truth-in-Lending treatise
Memberships
ABA Consumer Financial Services Committee; Former Chair, Subcommittee on Access to Services; Charter Member, American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers
Education
University of Virginia School of Law (J.D. 1978); University of Notre Dame (B.A. 1973)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Financial services regulation
The consumer financial services group at Ballard Spahr LLP offers comprehensive advice covering complex CFPB and agency regulatory, enforcement and litigation matters. The team is also recognized for its knowledge of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, allowing it to attract a variety of payment system providers, fintech firms and private equity firms as clients. Daniel McKenna and John Socknat steers these efforts, working out of the Philadelphia and Washington DC offices, respectively; in Pennsylvania, John Culhane is noted for his student lending law knowledge. Former CFPB official Michael Gordon joined the firm in March 2022, with Mark Furlettti leaving in February 2022.
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Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense