Eric L. Johnson photoEric L. Johnson

Practice Areas

  • Automotive and Personal Property Finance and Leasing
  • FinTech
  • Small Dollar Lending and Alternative Consumer Financial Services

Eric is a partner in Hudson Cook’s Oklahoma City office. He assists national and state banks, savings associations, credit unions, mortgage bankers, other licensed lenders, motor vehicles dealers and automotive finance companies in the development and maintenance of nationwide consumer mortgage and automobile finance programs; online motor vehicle sales programs; litigation funding programs; and electronic payment programs. Eric also assists DMS providers of documents and software with federal and state law compliance. He provides responses to regulator examinations; provides comments on proposed statutes and regulations to legislators and regulators; and assists financial services creditors with statutory and regulatory changes occasioned by the Dodd-Frank Act. Eric also assists financial services providers on e-commerce and information technology issues.

He is Program Officer of the Financial Institutions and Commercial Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association, a member of the American Bar Association (Business Law Section; Banking, Commercial Finance and Consumer Financial Services Committees), a member of the National Association of Dealer Counsel and a member of the Alternative Finance Bar Association. Eric serves as Chair to the Legal Committee for the National Automotive Finance Association and is a co-founder and co-instructor of their Consumer Credit Compliance Certification Program. Eric also serves on the Governing Committee for The Conference on Consumer Finance Law (VP-Membership).

Professional Affiliations

  • Update Chair, Financial Institutions and Commercial Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association
  • American Bar Association: Business Law Section; Banking, Commercial Finance and Consumer Financial Services Committees
  • Member, National Association of Dealer Counsel
  • National Automotive Finance Association: Chair, Legal Committee, 2006-present
  • The Conference on Consumer Finance Law: Governing Committee 2011-present, Vice President - Membership, 2015-present

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