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James
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Huizinga
Partner
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JAMES A. HUIZINGA serves as one of the Firmwide Global Coordinators of the Consumer Class Action (Financial Practices) practice area. He has been active in financial services litigation, working with clients in cases in federal and state courts across the country. Mr. Huizinga has provided litigation and pre-litigation advice relating to the Truth in Lending Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, false advertising, unfair and deceptive trade practices, federal preemption of state consumer protection laws, credit discrimination and debt collection practices.
Mr. Huizinga also advises financial services clients on a wide variety of regulatory, transactional and litigation matters, with special emphasis on retail banking. He works regularly with banks, savings associations, mortgage bankers, finance companies and others on issues related to residential mortgage and credit card programs, multi-state financial services initiatives and other credit, deposit and insurance businesses. Mr. Huizinga has worked extensively on the new consumer protections implemented under the Credit CARD Act of 2009 and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, including with respect to the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.
Mr. Huizinga is a contributing author to The Law of Truth in Lending (ABA) and The Law of Electronic Fund Transfers (Warren, Gorham & Lamont). He also has testified before Congress on Truth in Lending Act reform.
Mr. Huizinga earned a B.A., cum laude, in mathematics from Occidental College in 1978 and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 1981. He was an editor of the Hastings Law Journal, a member of the Order of Coif and Thurston Society, and recipient of the Milton D. Green Citation. He served as an extern to Associate Justice William P. Clark, Jr. of the California Supreme Court.
Mr. Huizinga was named a Leading Lawyer in the 2009 and 2010 editions of Chambers USA in its Consumer Financial Services Regulation section.
- Founding member, American College of Consumer Financial Service Lawyers
- District of Columbia Bar Association
- California Bar Association
