Faculty Profile: Stefanie Jackman

Stefanie JackmanBallard Spahr LLP
Previous Courses Taught (2)
  • Creditors Practice 2021: Debt Collectors and Standing In Wake Of Hunstein in the 11th Circuit
  • Creditors Practice Annual Forum 2021
Biography

Stefanie H. Jackman is the leader of Ballard Spahr's Debt Collection Team and a member of the firm's CFPB, TCPA, Fair Lending, and Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency Teams. She devotes her practice to assisting financial services institutions facing state and federal government investigations and examinations, counseling them on complex compliance issues, as well as defending them in individual and class action lawsuits. Stefanie represents clients across the financial services industry, including banks and nonbanks, mortgage banking lenders and servicers, debt collectors and buyers, third-party service providers, medical revenue cycle service providers, credit and prepaid card companies, and auto lenders. She regularly advises her clients on issues arising under an array of federal and state consumer financial laws, including UDAP/UDAAP statutes, FDCPA, FCRA, TCPA, EFTA, SCRA, and TILA.

In addition to her litigation and government investigations work, Stefanie focuses a significant portion of her practice on providing compliance-related advice to her clients. She regularly counsels clients on conducting compliance assessments relating to their debt collection, credit reporting and dispute resolution processes, fair lending and underwriting, and vendor oversight, as well as the functionality of their overall compliance management system. Stefanie also brings her litigation and enforcement experience to bear in assisting clients in designing new products and processes, including product structuring, advertising, online application flows, underwriting, and servicing-related strategies.