Nikki is a partner in Hudson Cook, LLP’s Maryland office
and Editor in Chief of CounselorLibrary.com’s CARLAW publication.
She counsels financial services providers on compliance with
consumer financial services laws, including unfair, deceptive,
and abusive acts or practices, as well as the investigations,
rulemakings, and proceedings of the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission.
Nikki also assists national and state banks, credit unions,
and other licensed lenders, sales finance companies, and
motor vehicles dealers in the development and maintenance
of nationwide consumer automobile finance programs;
online motor vehicle sales assistance programs; electronic
payment programs. She assists DMS providers of documents
and software with federal and state law compliance; provides
responses to regulator examinations; provides comments on
proposed statutes and regulations to legislators and regulators.
She consults on litigation. Nikki lectures and writes articles
on consumer credit issues, including TILA, ESIGN, credit
discrimination, payment assurance technology, and state consumer
credit laws.
Professional Affiliations
- Governing Committee, Conference on Consumer Finance Law
- American Bar Association, Business Law Section
- Business Law Section, New Membership Model Implementation Task
Force, Co-Chair, February 2019 to present
- Business Law Section Council Committee on Membership,
Diversity and Inclusion, Chair, October 2016 to September 2019
- Business Law Section Council, September 2015 to September 2019
- Member, Advance IV Content Team, June 2012 to January 2013
- Member, Educational Programming Board, April 2010 to 2012
- American Bar Association, Consumer Financial Services Committee
- Chair, National Institute, September 2018 to present
- Chair, August 2012 to September 2015
- Vice Chair, August 2009 to August 2012
- Chair, Programs Sub-Committee, August 2008 to August 2009
- Vice-Chair, Programs Sub-Committee, August 2005 to 2008
- Member, National Association of Dealer Counsel
- Member, American Financial Services Association: State
Government Affairs, Vehicle Finance Subcommittee, Women’s
Leadership Council