Ms Tara Elgie > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Dallas, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
1445 ROSS AVENUE
SUITE 3700
DALLAS, TX 75202
TEXAS
United States
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Ms Tara Elgie
Work Department
Financial Services Litigation and Compliance
Position
Partner
Career
Ms. Elgie provides compliance and litigation advice to financial institutions related to federal and state consumer protection laws. She has extensive experience defending and advising financial institutions in consumer finance litigation and regulatory compliance matters. Ms. Elgie regularly defends financial institutions in litigation involving various provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Truth In Lending Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, and various state statutes related to consumer protection and unfair and deceptive acts and practices.
Ms. Elgie’s consumer finance litigation and compliance experience crosses various product lines, including mortgage, auto, credit card, student loans, and FinTech. She currently works with a team that serves as national consumer bankruptcy counsel for a national bank. Ms. Elgie also works with a team defending a mortgage servicer against Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims throughout the country.
She has significant experience helping clients develop and enhance internal programs and processes to ensure compliance with federal and state consumer protection statutes. For example, she has advised a national bank in overhauling its policies and procedures for originating and servicing mortgage accounts in bankruptcy.
Memberships
Admitted to the Texas and Virginia State Bars
Education
- JD, University of Richmond School of Law, 2002
- BA, Gettysburg College, 1996
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate