Mr. Kaplinsky is a senior partner of Ballard Spahr LLP, and chair of the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group. His practice is devoted exclusively to counseling financial institutions with respect to bank regulatory and transactional matters and defending financial institutions in individual and class action lawsuits. He pioneered the use of pre-dispute arbitration provisions in consumer contracts, has counseled numerous consumer financial services companies with respect to this subject and has defended numerous companies who have sought to enforce consumer arbitration agreements.
Mr. Kaplinsky annually chairs a Practicing Law Institute Annual Institute on “Consumer Financial Services Litigation” in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, which is in its eleventh year. Formerly an adjunct professor a the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Temple University School of Law, he is graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business and Boston College Law School.
Professional Affiliations
- Chairperson, National Home Equity Mortgage Association, Law Committee
- Co-Chairperson, ABA Business Law Section, Ad Hoc Committee on Consumer Arbitration
- Former Chairperson, ABA Consumer Financial Services Committee
- Former Chairperson, ABA Consumer Financial Services Subcommittees on Interest Rate Regulation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Permanent Member, Judicial Conference of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
- Member, Consumer Bankers Association, Lawyers Committee
- Past President, American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers