Jerry Buckley is a founding partner of Buckley LLP, a law firm focused
on serving the legal needs of the Nation’s financial services industry.
Buckley LLP has one of the largest and most experienced groups of
financial services attorneys in the country serving clients that include
banks, mortgage companies, credit card issuers, insurance companies, broker
dealers, investment banks and private equity investors. Mr. Buckley assists
these clients with strategic counsel and advice on business formations and
acquisitions, risk management, and enforcement matters involving federal
and state regulators.
He also represents and counsels
financial services companies and their trade associations in connection
with legislative and regulatory initiatives by state and federal agencies
and the Congress and acts as outside counsel for several national trade
associations.
Mr. Buckley’s practice involves the
defense of companies that are targets of inquiries or enforcement actions
by bank regulatory agencies, the FTC, HUD and State attorneys general. In
addition, he acts as counsel for a number of national financial services
trade associations in filing amicus curiae briefs related to the
interpretation of banking and consumer finance laws in cases before the
U.S. Supreme Court and appellate courts.
Mr. Buckley serves as
general counsel of the Electronic Signatures and Records Association
(http://www.esignrecords.org). In that capacity, he counsels the
nation’s leading financial and technology firms on emerging laws
affecting the electronic delivery of financial services. He played a
leading role in negotiations that led to enactment of the federal E-Sign
Act authorizing the nationwide use of electronic signatures and records and
has acted as counsel to the Drafting Committee for Standards and Procedures
for Electronic Records and Signatures (http://www.spers.org).
Mr. Buckley has chaired the Subcommittee on RESPA of the American Bar
Association Consumer Financial Services Committee. He is frequently a
speaker at seminars on subjects related to the federal and state regulation
of mortgage companies and electronic delivery of financial services.
Mr. Buckley received his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law
School in 1969 and his A.B. from Fairfield University in 1966.