Legal League 100 Board Discusses Issues Facing Financial Services Industry

The Legal League 100 Advisory Board met Wednesday in Washington, D.C. to plot the path forward for serving the default servicing and financial services legal community in the coming year.

Ed Delgado, President and CEO of the Five Star Institute and acting Ex-Officio of the Legal League 100, was in attendance at the meeting to offer the Board his perspective on the pressing matters. Delgado emphasized Five Star’s commitment to partnering with the Legal League by continuing to offer education and support to its members.

Atlanta-based creditors' rights attorney Glen Rubin presided over his first official board meeting since being installed as the Legal League 100 Chair at the members-only meeting in September hosted at the 2014 Five Star Conference and Expo.

Rubin's 25-year career in practicing law began in New York in the commercial bankruptcy field and later moved to suburban Atlanta, where he is a managing partner at Rubin Lublin, LLC, a  mortgage default practice that serves clients not only from Georgia but from surrounding states Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. Prior to being elected, Rubin had been serving as interim Chair.

"I am delighted to be serving as Chair of the Advisory Board of the Legal League 100," Rubin said. "My goal is to increase the stature and visibility of the League in the mortgage default industry as well as to advocate for our member law firms and associate members with respect to issues they run up against operating in today's challenging environment."

Legal League 100 was formed in April 2007 in collaboration with the Five Star Institute as a consortium of default servicing and financial services law firms providing a results-driven, go-to resource for the industry's decision makers. The League's Advisory Board was created in December 2011 in response to an increased need for leadership and advocacy with the purpose of strategizing growth opportunities, facilitating education, and enhancing strategic relationships in the industry and on Capitol Hill.

"There are multiple trade associations serving the mortgage banking community, and, in particular, the mortgage default industry," Rubin wrote earlier this year. "Most do a wonderful job of offering their memberships the opportunity to network with other industry professionals and increase business opportunities. Only a select few take it to the next level and advocate for their membership within the industry and beyond. In my opinion, the League is at the head of those select few."