Joe Kolar is a founding partner of Buckley LLP, resident in the Washington, DC office. Mr. Kolar regularly counsels financial institutions, financial services companies, mortgage lenders and servicers, mortgage insurers, national trade associations and others in complying with mortgage and consumer lending and servicing regulations, including those relating to real estate settlement procedures, truth in lending, equal credit opportunity/fair housing/fair lending, privacy, fair credit reporting, electronic signatures and records, escrows, collections, community reinvestment, state law and regulations, and licensing.
Mr. Kolar also has a significant practice in evaluating, drafting and advocating new legislative and regulatory proposals affecting the mortgage and consumer credit industry. Mr. Kolar advises on FHA-insured and VA-guaranteed single-family loan programs, GNMA guaranteed securities programs and the programs and policies of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as they relate to loan origination, servicing and secondary market transactions. In addition, Mr. Kolar frequently represents mortgage lenders and others in negotiating joint ventures, marketing and Internet origination agreements and vendor agreements, as well as other contracts used or needed by a wide variety of financial services companies.
Mr. Kolar is a frequent speaker at conferences on consumer and mortgage regulatory issues and has written widely in these areas. Prior to law practice, Mr. Kolar worked as a staff member for former U.S. Representative Jim Leach (R-IA).
Mr. Kolar received a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1985 (cum laude), where he was an Associate Editor of The Tax Lawyer, and a B.B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1982.
