The Declassified blog offers commentary and insights on the latest class action suits, significant class action opinions, relevant changes to laws and rules, and important class action trends. Declassified covers topics ranging from significant Supreme Court and appellate court decisions regarding class certification requirements to proposed or enacted legislation, rules and regulations that impact class action litigation to key industry developments that may indirectly impact class action...
Practice Expertise
- Banking and Financial Services
- Appellate
- Financial Services Litigation
Areas of Practice
- Appellate
- Banking and Financial Services
- Financial Services Litigation
- Financial Services Litigaton
- Litigation
- Student Loan Services
- Title Insurance Claims and Title Defect ... View More
Profile
Aaron Chastain’s practice centers on the legal and regulatory risks associated with consumer credit. Starting with the belief that credit is what makes the world go around – and what makes a huge amount of goods and services available to the everyday consumer – Aaron helps his clients engage their customers in ways that maximize social benefits, consumer welfare, and profits. His clients include mortgage lenders and servicers, residential solar developers and finance companies, banks, healthcare providers, and educational finance providers.
Aaron draws on a wide range of experiences as a lawyer. He has had significant time in the courtroom, briefing hundreds of appellate matters and presenting dozens of oral arguments in state and federal courtrooms stretching from Brooklyn to San Francisco. He has served as lead counsel in multiple jury trials and has experienced the thrill and the stress of picking a jury, making opening and closing arguments, examining witnesses, and waiting for a verdict announcement. Aaron has also managed complex litigation – including class actions – always trying to use every stage of the case, from pleadings to discovery to dispositive motions, to achieve the best possible outcome for his clients.
Despite his background as a trial and appellate lawyer, Aaron has an equal amount of experience helping his clients navigate regulatory compliance issues. He has devoted thousands of hours scrutinizing regulations issued by agencies such as state banking departments, the OCC, the CFPB, the FTC, and HHS and helping his clients think through compliance issues in their product offerings, advertising, loan servicing, and collections. Aaron has specific experience with issues arising under the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), including the many rules and regulations interpreting those statutes.
Whether it’s litigating a case or advising clients how to avoid regulatory problems, Aaron strives to provide plain language, practical advice. He finds that helping his clients solve problems in a way that accomplishes their business goals is the most rewarding part of his practice.
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, 2010
Court Admissions
- United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
- Supreme Court of Alabama
- United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama
- United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
- United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama
- United States District Court, Northern District of Florida
Education
- Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 2010, Order of the Coif; Senior Notes Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review, 2009-2010; Managing Associate Justice, Moot Court Board, 2009-2010
- Auburn University, B.A., 2007, summa cum laude, University Honors Scholar
Areas of Practice
- Appellate
- Banking and Financial Services
- Financial Services Litigation
- Financial Services Litigaton
- Litigation
- Student Loan Services
- Title Insurance Claims and Title Defect Curative
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