Michele L Stocker

Practice Areas

Litigation

Financial Services Litigation

Class Action Litigation

Financial Regulatory & Compliance

Banking & Financial Services

Regulatory & Compliance

Arbitration & Mediation

GT COVID-19 Economic Stimulus Team

Career

Michele L. Stocker is Co-Chair of the Consumer Financial Services Litigation Practice and is a commercial litigator with a broad range of experience representing clients in the financial services industry including regional and national banks, loan servicers, consumer finance companies, mortgage bankers, credit card issuers, debt buyers and third-party debt collectors.

Concentrations:

Telephone Consumer Protection Act

Contested mortgage foreclosures

Fair Credit Reporting Act

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

Truth in Lending Act and Regulation Z

Mortgage loan origination and loan servicing issues

Unfair and deceptive trade practices

Consumer fraud

Identity theft

Predatory lending

Force-placed insurance

Class action defense

Professional Memberships

Chair, Pine Crest School - Fort Lauderdale, Board of Trustees

Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America

Member, American Bar Association; Member, Business Law Section, Consumer Financial Services Committee

Board Member, Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova SouthEastern University, Board of Governors, 2013-2022

Board Member, Children's Home Society of Florida, Intercoastal Division, 2007-2016

Member, Orange Bowl Committee

Board Member, Crockett Foundation

Circuit Civil Mediator, Florida Supreme Court

Compliance Chair, American Collectors International, State of Florida, 2005-2010

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, Litigation: General Commercial, 2022

Personal

J.D., Columbia Law School, 1990; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

B.A., cum laude, Princeton University, 1987