McGlinchey proudly serves California clients from the heart of the business district of Irvine, California. In 2013, the firm expanded its footprint to Southern California to more effectively serve key clients in the areas of general litigation, commercial litigation, and consumer financial services litigation.
November 14-15, 2024
Members of McGlinchey’s Financial Institutions Compliance, Financial Services Litigation, and Enterprise Litigation and Investigations teams will participate in multiple sessions during the upcoming Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL) Fall Consumer Financial Services Conference at SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas.
October 3, 2024
For the second time, McGlinchey has achieved Midsize Mansfield Certification, reaffirming the firm’s commitment to diversity in leadership and inclusive hiring practices.
September 22-24, 2024
Members of McGlinchey’s Financial Institutions Compliance and Enterprise Litigation and Investigations teams will participate in multiple sessions during the upcoming Mortage Bankers Association (MBA) Compliance and Risk Management Conference (CRMC) in Washington, DC.
August 28, 2024
Omomah I. Abebe has joined McGlinchey as an Associate in the firm’s Irvine office. With a focus on consumer financial services, real estate, and commercial litigation, she counsels clients on constitutional and statutory claims, consumer claims, and business disputes.
August 20, 2024
Although not aligned on every issue, defense counsel and coverage counsel can work together to protect the insured from judgment. Keeping that shared goal in mind can help ease the tension created by their different perspectives.
August 15, 2024
McGlinchey is 50! In honor of our anniversary this year, attorneys across our footprint and practices are reflecting on where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going.
August 15, 2024
McGlinchey Stafford is proud to announce that 74 of its attorneys have been recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America.
August 14, 2024
With the most recent addition of Matt Manning, the executive Policy Committee now comprises a majority of “next generation” Gen X and Millennial leaders. As of August, 70% of the Policy Committee and 88% of Office Managing Attorneys are Gen X and Millennial leaders.
July 18, 2024
In the ever-evolving legal landscape, mid-size law firms find themselves at a critical juncture.
July 12, 2024
Managing Member of the Irvine office, Michelle M. McCliman, was interviewed by Law360 Pulse in an article published July 12, 2024.
July 2, 2024
McGlinchey was named among many AmLaw 100 and 200 firms among Vault’s 2025 rankings for Diversity in Law Firms, based on input from the firm’s Associates. McGlinchey also ranked in two categories in The American Lawyer’s 2024 Diversity Scorecards: Women in Law and the LGBTQ+ Scorecard.
June 27, 2024
Associate and Chair of McGlinchey PRIDE Andrew Albritton was quoted in a Law360 Pulse story about how attorneys are commemorating Pride month.
June 20, 2024
McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that Members Mark S. Edelman (Cleveland), Kelly Lipinski (Cleveland), Robert W. Savoie (Cleveland), and Jeffrey R. Seewald (Irvine) have been named as Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers for 2024. Stand-out lawyers are recognized for their ability to improve client satisfaction, increase client advocacy, grow share of wallet, strengthen their firm’s brand, enhance people engagement, and increase profits per partner.
June 17, 2024
McGlinchey is proud to announce that the firm is relaunching its African American Affinity Group under a new identity: BOLD, McGlinchey’s Black Originators, Leaders, and Doers.
May 30-31, 2024
Members of McGlinchey’s Financial Institutions Compliance team will participate in multiple sessions during the upcoming CCFL Spring Consumer Financial Services Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
May 7-8, 2024
Members of McGlinchey’s Financial Institutions Compliance, Financial Services Litigation, and Enterprise Litigation and Investigations teams will participate in multiple sessions during the upcoming Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance (LIRC) Conference in San Diego.
February 20, 2024
Of Counsel Sanford Shatz and Associate Zeeshan Iqbal (Irvine) will present “California Legislative Review: A Discussion of the New Laws (and Regulations) that Impact California's Banking and Lending Industries” for the Orange County Bar Association Banking & Lending Section in Newport Beach, California, on February 20, 2024.
February 7, 2024
McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that as of January 1, 2024, Michael Ferachi has been elected to serve a second three-year term as the firm’s Managing Member. “I am proud of the progress the firm made during my first term, ranging from growing our employee headcount and geographic footprint to expanding our practice areas,More
January 2, 2024
McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce the eight attorneys who have been named Members at the firm, effective January 1, 2024. These attorneys represent four practice groups and six of the firm’s 17 offices.
December 4, 2023
McGlinchey is pleased to announce the addition of three associate attorneys affiliated with the firm’s Irvine, California office. Steve Christianson, Adam B. Van Korlaar, and Heejoong Kim join the Enterprise Litigation and Investigations group, strengthening the group’s presence in California.
December 12, 2023
Member Sanford Shatz (Irvine) will join a panel “California Legislative Update” at the California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA) Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference on December 12, 2023.
November 15, 2023
Readers have likely heard about Diversity Lab’s “Mansfield Rule” Certification process, which aims to “boost and sustain diversity” in legal leadership. As a firm that has always sought diverse candidates for open positions and already tracked those efforts, we had been considering the Mansfield process for some time. In the fall of 2021, we decidedMore
September 8, 2023
Three McGlinchey will present during the American Bar Association's (ABA) Business Law 2023 Fall Meeting at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk in Chicago, Illinois, September 7-9, 2023.
August 29, 2023
Floorplan financing exemptions in the new state commercial financing disclosure laws may not be as broad as lenders think.
August 10, 2023
McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that the firm has been ranked nationally among many AmLaw 100 and 200 firms in three categories on Vault’s 2024 Best Law Firms for Diversity rankings.
August 15, 2023
Member Sanford Shatz and Associate Zeeshan Iqbal (Irvine) will present “A Review of the United States & California Supreme Court's Cases Impacting the Banking & Lending Industries” for the Orange County Bar Association Banking & Lending Section in Newport Beach, California, on August 15, 2023.
May 9, 2023
rvine) were profiled by Law360 on May 9, 2023, on their recent move to McGlinchey. They discuss the factors that contributed to their move to McGlinchey, including culture, people, and growth strategy.
May 8, 2023
McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that distinguished attorneys Kere Tickner and Michelle McCliman have joined the firm’s Enterprise Litigation and Investigations Group as Members (Partners) in the Irvine, California office. The pair is joined by a paralegal, Kirsten Zell, and a legal assistant, Elizabeth May.
May 2, 2023
McGlinchey is pleased to announce Sanford (Sandy) Shatz, Of Counsel in the firm's Irvine office, has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers (ACCFSL).
May 9, 2023
Of Counsel Sandy Shatz (Irvine) will present "Responsible Data Usage: The Evolving Landscape of Data Privacy" at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference on May 9, 2023, in Austin, TX. The panel will discuss recent changes to the CPRA, federal data privacy legislation, and the recent focus on the use of AI and dark patterns on the federal and local levels.
January 21-24, 2023
Four McGlinchey attorneys will participate in panel discussions during the American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Section Consumer Financial Services Committee Winter Meeting at the Ritz Carlton, New Orleans, on January 21-24, 2023.
January 17, 2023
On January 17, 2023, Sanford P. Shatz (Irvine) will present a California legislative review for the Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) Banking & Lending and Business Litigation Joint Section Meeting.
December 16, 2022
David W. Thompson, Gregg Stevens, Joseph Apatov, and Sanford P. Shatz co-authored an article on "Gross v. CitiMortgage: An Expansion of the Duty to Investigate Under the FCRA" in the Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL) Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report, Vol. 75, No. 4.
December 13, 2022
On Tuesday, December 13, 2022, Sanford P. Shatz (Irvine) will participate in a roundtable discussion on a variety of compliance issues during the California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA) 2022 Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference in Newport Beach, California.
September 30, 2022
McGlinchey is pleased to announce that Nicole Johnson has joined the firm’s Financial Services Litigation practice group as Of Counsel, associated with the Irvine office. Nicole’s practice will focus on representing consumer financial services companies in litigation matters. With 14 years of litigation experience, Nicole represents mortgage loan servicers, loan beneficiaries, foreclosure trustees, and other financialMore
September 19, 2022
Sandy Shatz (Irvine) will participate in a panel discussion on the ever-present concerns around data protection and privacy on September 19, 2022, at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Regulatory Compliance Conference in Washington, DC.
August 16, 2022
Member Sanford Shatz (Irvine) is presenting at an Orange County Bar Association Banking & Lending Section Webinar, "Recent United States and California Supreme Court Banking and Lending Case Updates and More."
August 12, 2022
Member Ben Gross (Irvine) was profiled in Law360 on August 11, 2022. He discussed moving to McGlinchey, the impact of technology on the financial industry, and bringing an in-house counsel point of view to the table.
August 8, 2022
McGlinchey is pleased to announce that experienced financial services compliance attorney Ben Gross has joined the firm as a Member (Partner) in California, associated with the Irvine office. Ben focuses his practice on compliance matters facing the mortgage servicing and origination and Fintech industries.
July 12, 2022
servicing portfolios. This quarter, the reporting banks serviced approximately 12.2 million first-lien residential mortgages, with an unpaid principal balance of $2.6T, representing 22% of all outstanding residential mortgage debt.
July 12, 2022
On June 23, 2022, Representatives Pallone, Rodgers, Schakowsky, and Bilirakis introduced the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, HR 8152. This Act represents an effort to create a comprehensive federal privacy law. Information that could be linked to a person or a device would be covered, and the Act would provide extra protections for sensitive covered data. The Act would not cover publicly available data or de-identified data.
June 16, 2022
The MBA's First Quarter 2022 National Delinquency Survey revealed that the delinquency rate for mortgage loans on 1–4-unit residential properties decreased to 4.11% of all loans outstanding at the close of the first quarter of 2022.
May 20, 2022
Three members of McGlinchey's Consumer Financial Services Compliance team will participate in panel discussions during the Conference on Consumer Finance Law's 2022 Annual Consumer Financial Services Conference at Loyola University Chicago School of Law on May 19-20, 2022.
May 10, 2022
On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, Sanford Shatz (Irvine) will join the Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) Banking and Lending Section for a webinar to discuss the California Supreme Court's resolution of Sheen v. Wells Fargo Bank and the case's impact on mortgage foreclosure litigation.
April 27, 2022
Since its passage, the California legislature has amended the CCPA; California voters modified the CCPA when they passed ballot proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA); the California attorney general implemented final regulations; and the California Department of Justice began enforcing the CCPA.
March 30, 2022
On March 7, 2022, the California Supreme Court held in Sheen v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. that a lender owes no tort duty sounding in general negligence principles to “process, review and respond carefully and completely to” the borrower’s loan modification application.
March 22, 2022
Signed into law on March 15, 2022, the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 resolves a pending concern with variable interest rate loan contracts that use LIBOR as their index.
January 26, 2022
Sanford "Sandy" Shatz (Irvine) will participate in a panel discussion on state and federal regulatory hot topics during the Independent Mortgage Bankers Conference in Nashville on Wednesday, January 26, 2022.
November 16, 2021
While Hunstein II reaffirms the holding of Hunstein I, looking beyond the surface of the opinion reveals significant limitations to the holding that should alleviate some of the concerns initially raised by Hunstein I.
September 23, 2021
On Thursday, September 23, 2021, Sandy Shatz, Chris Bottcher, and Shaun Ramey will join Saltmarsh, Cleaveland & Gund's Financial Institution Advisory Group to present a brief overview of new mortgage servicing rules in federal law, Florida law, and Tennessee law.
August 31, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the District Court’s judgment vacating the CDC's second eviction moratorium that had prevented the eviction of any tenants who live in counties that are experiencing substantial or high levels of COVID-19 transmission and who make certain declarations of financial need.
August 19, 2021
McGlinchey Stafford is proud to announce that 57 of its attorneys have been recognized in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
August 20, 2021
Sanford Shatz (Irvine) will join a panel of speakers on Friday, August 20, 2021, for the California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA) Legal Issues Committee's Q3 2021 Webinar.
August 17, 2021
On Tuesday, August 17, 2021, Dhruv Sharma and Sanford Shatz (Irvine) will join the Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) Banking and Lending Section for a webinar to discuss the United States Supreme Court’s Banking and Lending cases from the October 2020 term, their impact on consumers and lenders, and how they will affect the financialMore
July 20, 2021
On Tuesday, July 13, 2021, Joseph Apatov and Robert Im will join a panel of key thought leaders and practitioners for an in-depth discussion of FCRA litigation trends, crucial considerations, and effective litigation strategies.
June 25, 2021
On the eve of the June 30, 2021, the expiration date for all federal pandemic moratoriums, the Federal Government extended its foreclosure and eviction moratoriums, and encouraged delinquent borrowers to seek forbearance and other relief.
June 4, 2021
Kristi Richard (Baton Rouge) and Dhruv Sharma (Irvine) discuss what energy companies and regulated entities can do to keep consumers safe and their businesses operational and in compliance with changing governmental regulation given the ever-evolving nature of cybersecurity.
May 25, 2021
Sanford Shatz (Irvine) will co-present a session on regulatory compliance in the residential lending cycle during the CMCP track of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference on Tuesday, May 25, 2021.
April 29, 2021
Sanford Shatz (Irvine) will participate in a panel discussion for the Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys (ACFA) on Thursday, April 29, 2021. The panel will explore the contours of recent lender liability law and cases and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the legal risks faced by lenders.
April 26, 2021
On April 19, 2021, the CFPB announced that it issued an interim final rule in support of the CDC’s residential eviction moratorium, effective May 3, 2021, which requires debt collectors to provide written notice to tenants of their rights under the CDC Order and prohibits debt collectors from misrepresenting tenants’ eligibility for protection from eviction under the moratorium.
April 20, 2021
Sanford Shatz (Irvine) and Paul Lysobey (Cleveland) co-authored an article on the California Consumer Privacy Act in the ABA Business Law Section’s The Business Lawyer, Volume 76, Issue 2, Spring 2021.
January 12, 2021
Sandy Shatz (Irvine) co-presented "Impact of COVID-19 on Your Customer Relationships” during the California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA) Legal Issues & Regulatory Compliance Conference on Tuesday, January 12, 2021.
December 10, 2020
Sanford (Sandy) P. Shatz (Irvine) will chair a panel on Mortgage Forbearance on Thursday, December 10, 2020, during the FinTech and Consumer Finance Webinar.
December 10, 2020
What will the upcoming change in executive administration mean for employers and HR departments? Bring Your Own Policy, handbooks, and specific questions for a discussion on what 2021 (and beyond) may look like in the employment world.
August 20, 2020
McGlinchey proudly announces that 63 attorneys have been recognized in 42 practice areas across 12 offices in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and the Inaugural Edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, including 47 listed by Best Lawyers, 4 designated as “Lawyers of the Year,” and 16 recognized in “Ones to Watch.".
August 18, 2020
Irvine attorneys Sandy Shatz and Dhruv Sharma presented their annual review of the United States and California Supreme Courts’ Banking and Lending cases entitled “What Is, What Might Be, What Will Not Be” to the Orange County Bar Association’s Banking and Lending Section on August 18, 2020.
June 30, 2020
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC is pleased to announce the inclusion of 10 attorneys from four offices in the Southern California, Florida, and Washington, DC issues of the 2020 Super Lawyers and Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” by Thomson Reuters. These attorneys were recognized across five practice areas spanning various business, corporate, and litigation arenas. The following attorneysMore
March 17, 2020
The health and safety of our McGlinchey family and uninterrupted service to our clients are our number one priorities as we continue to closely monitor and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 6, 2020
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC is pleased to announce the promotion of four attorneys to Members (Partners) within the firm: Zelma M. Frederick (Baton Rouge) Hillary Barnett Lambert (New Orleans) Dhruv M. Sharma (Irvine) Stephanie Laird Tolson (Houston) In addition, Chris Nichols (Baton Rouge) and Shannon Sale (New Orleans) have been promoted to Of Counsel.
January 2, 2018
McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce the naming of nine new Members of the firm, effective January 1, 2018.
October 8, 2013
McGlinchey News Release McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that the firm has opened a new office in Irvine, California. This is the first West Coast office for the growing national law firm. McGlinchey Stafford now has 180 attorneys in ten offices across the states of California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, Ohio and Texas.More