Thomas Hefferon is a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Litigation Department, resident in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Hefferon represents a wide range of corporate and individual clients in his national practice. He specializes in the defense of financial institutions in the consumer services industry in cases that typically arise under the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Equal Credit Operating Act (ECOA), the Fair Housing Act (FHA), the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), state and federal unfair and deceptive acts and practices laws (UDAP), other consumer lending statutes and regulations, bankruptcy laws and the common law. Mr. Hefferon is chair of the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Litigation Practice Group, which includes more than two dozen attorneys wholly or predominantly devoted to the defense of these types of matters.
Mr. Hefferon also represents a number of financial institutions and trade groups in contested matters before federal and state administrative agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, and state civil rights, consumer protection, and licensing authorities. He is admitted in District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and Virginia, and in a number of federal courts, and has appeared as pro hac vice counsel in most states. Formerly an adjunct assistant professor of law at Boston College Law School, he is a graduate of Trinity College and the University of Chicago Law School.