As a child, my parents emphasized the importance of education and academic achievement. When I decided I wanted to become an attorney, my parents were my biggest champions. All these years later, my parents continue to inspire my work ethic and ambition. My drive to honor my family is my motivation in providing my clients with the best possible representation.
Kerry Ann Cummings has more than 15 years of experience representing financial institutions in litigation matters involving mortgage foreclosures, creditors’ rights, real estate, and title issues. She also defends client interests in insurance matters, primarily related to hurricane claims, and handles various other commercial litigation.
With a career focus on consumer financial services litigation, clients and colleagues alike rely on Kerry’s deep knowledge of mortgage law, paired with her stellar reputation and familiarity with judicial personnel and opposing counsel. This background positions her to calculate the most efficient, productive route to the desired resolution in each matter, carefully weighing all factors. She is particularly adept at successfully managing matters related to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), Truth in Lending Act (TILA).
From initial case assessment and strategy development through to negotiating a settlement and/or taking a case to trial, Kerry prides herself on effective case management. She is a tireless researcher skilled at finding the fact or legal issue that will carry the day in a dispute from among a complex matrix of information.
She is also a particularly skillful oral advocate, articulate and effective, remarkably effective at connecting with judges during hearings or arguments. She can be aggressive or accommodating, as the situation requires, and almost always knows what issues judges will find significant. She is also very skilled at reading a judge’s nonverbal reaction to an argument, and modifying her tone in order to get the point she’s making across by closely observing facial expressions, body language and other important clues. She excels at thinking on her feet.