Mr. Lane is a Shareholder and Director of the firm and Chairman of the Financial Services Group. Mr. Lane's practice is primarily devoted to counseling financial institutions and financial service companies with respect to compliance with consumer lending laws and regulations. Specific areas in which he has worked extensively include consultation regarding the development of direct lending and indirect finance programs, the loan documents for those programs, internet payment systems, alternative student loan programs, electronic disclosures for consumer finance transaction, disclosures for electronic bill presentment and payment plans, portfolio recalculations for corrective action, privacy, credit reporting, use of consumer credit reports and debt collection.

Areas of Law/Focus

Consumer Lending Laws and Regulations

Education

J.D., Duquesne University School of Law, 1975

Cum Laude; Book Review Editor, Duquesne Law Review

B. Arch., Carnegie Mellon University, 1970

Professional & Community Activities

Member, Allegheny County Bar Association

Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Member, State Bar of California

Member, Conference on Consumer Finance Law

Named to the 2004 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list

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

Vice Chairman, Consumer Financial Services Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California

Bar Admissions

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1975

State of California, 2004.