Executive Change: Hudson Cook Adds Former CFPB Enforcement Deputy as Partner

Hudson Cook, LLP, a nationwide provider of legal compliance services for the financial services industry, announces the addition of Lucy Morris as a partner in its Washington, DC office.  Lucy brings 25 years experience in all aspects of consumer finance law and public policy.  Lucy will support the firm’s enforcement and compliance practices, and her experience will further enhance the firm’s ability to provide meaningful and practical advice to its clients.

“Lucy brings a wealth of experience with consumer financial services regulation, from both the CFPB and the FTC, and she will be a great addition to our practice,” explained Hudson Cook Chairman Tom Hudson.

From 2011 to 2014, Lucy served as Deputy Enforcement Director in the Division of Supervision, Enforcement, and Fair Lending at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  Lucy’s responsibilities at the CFPB included overseeing investigations and litigation relating to consumer financial products and services, including credit cards, mortgage origination, mortgage servicing, payday lending, debt collection, credit reporting, and debt settlement.  From 2010 to 2011, Lucy served as a founding member of the implementation team that organized the CFPB after passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, helping to stand up the Bureau’s enforcement, supervision, and other functions.

Lucy Morris

Before joining the CFPB, Lucy worked at the Federal Trade Commission from 1989 to 2010.  She served in a variety of positions in the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, including Assistant Director of Financial Practices and Assistant to the Director.  Lucy worked in the Division of Financial Practices for 18 years, where she was responsible for protecting consumers of financial products and services through law enforcement, rulemaking, policy development and public outreach.  During her tenure at the FTC, Lucy supervised, litigated, and investigated complex law enforcement actions involving a variety of consumer financial products and services, including mortgage origination, mortgage servicing, credit reporting, debt collection, and debt settlement.  Lucy was awarded the Chairman’s Award in 2008, the FTC’s highest award, in recognition of her accomplishments.

Before joining the FTC, Lucy practiced law for three years as a litigation associate at Betts, Patterson & Mines in Seattle, Washington.  Lucy received her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from the University of Santa Clara and a Juris Doctor degree from Hastings College of the Law.  Lucy speaks frequently on topics relating to the CFPB, law enforcement, litigation, and consumer financial protection.

Hudson Cook, LLP is a 60 lawyer consumer financial services law firm with offices in California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia.  The firm represents many of the nation’s top banks, savings associations, holding companies, finance companies, auto dealers and others who provide services to auto financing and leasing and mortgage bankers, insurance and securities companies, investment banks and “e-commerce” firms, including several Fortune 500 companies.  For more information regarding the law firm and the publishing company, call Tom Hudson at 410-865-5411 or visit online at www.hudco.com.