Jonice Gray Tucker
Partner
1250 24th Street, NW • Suite 700
Washington, DC 20037
T. 202·349·8005
F. 202·349·8080
Jonice Gray Tucker, a partner with BuckleySandler LLP, represents corporate and individual clients in federal and state enforcement agency investigations, examinations, and litigation as well as private civil litigation. In addition, she conducts internal investigations on behalf of corporations and counsels clients on compliance with federal consumer protection laws including the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, and the Truth in Lending Act.
Ms. Tucker has extensive experience representing financial institutions in matters relating to federal and state fair lending laws, mortgage fraud, unfair and deceptive trade practices, and consumer privacy laws. She has represented financial institutions in matters initiated by government entities which include the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, state banking commissions, and state attorneys general, among others. Ms. Tucker also represents financial institutions in private civil litigation, including class actions. She has particular expertise in loan servicing, having represented several major servicers in landmark litigation and enforcement actions.
Beyond her consumer financial services work, Ms. Tucker has represented corporate clients in securities-related investigations and litigation brought by the DOJ and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She also has represented individual clients in criminal matters and related civil appellate litigation.
Ms. Tucker has published articles on a wide-variety of issues impacting financial institutions. In addition, she is a frequent speaker on legal issues facing financial institutions, including best practices in mortgage loan servicing, “fair servicing” in the context of loss mitigation, secondary market liability, mortgage fraud, and dispute resolution techniques. Ms. Tucker recently was featured in Washingtonian magazine’s Top Lawyers Issue in an article focusing on the path to partnership.
Ms. Tucker is firmly committed to providing pro bono legal services to members of our community who cannot afford to pay for counsel. She has been recognized for her outstanding work in a pro bono capacity, including in particular, her work on a highly-publicized habeas corpus case which led to the overturning of a wrongful criminal conviction. Ms. Tucker also serves on the Board of Directors of the Kolar Charitable Foundation and is a co-founder of the Financial Literacy Foundation (FLF). FLF is a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, which provides financial management courses such as budgeting, banking, wise use of credit, and wealth building strategies to high school students in underserved communities.
Ms. Tucker is the Chair of BuckleySandler’s Diversity Committee. The Committee provides strategic guidance relative to the Firm’s mission of maintaining and expanding diversity among its professionals.
Prior to joining BuckleySandler at its inception in 2009, Ms. Tucker practiced with the Litigation Group at Skadden Arps, where she specialized in Consumer Financial Services. Before entering private practice, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Marvin J. Garbis of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 2000-2001. Ms. Tucker received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2000 and her B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1996 (Phi Beta Kappa).
Honors
Stakeholder 100 Award (September 2007)
President’s Award, International Union of Police Associations (October 2006)
Associations/Affiliations
Board of Directors, The Financial Literacy Foundation
Board of Directors, The Kolar Charitable Foundation
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
September 27, 2010 - MBA’s Regulatory Compliance Conference 2010
November 7-10, 2010 - 2010 CRA & Fair Lending Colloquium
Other Firm Speaking EngagementsSelected Publications
Jonice Gray Tucker, Benjamin P. Saul, & Thomas A. Dowell, Mortgage Servicing Under Fire, Rev. of Banking & Fin. Serv. (2010).
Jonice Gray Tucker, Lori J. Sommerfield & Thomas A. Dowell, Fair-Lending Principles Must Underpin Loss Mit, 4.2 Servicing Management (2010).
Jonice Gray Tucker, Benjamin P. Saul, & Lori J. Sommerfield, Regulators Target Fair Servicing, 70.9 Mortgage Banking 44-50 (2010).
Andrew L. Sandler, Benjamin B. Klubes & Jonice Gray Tucker, Weathering the Subprime Storm, 1.2 Am. Securitization (2007).
Andrew L. Sandler, Benjamin B. Klubes, Anand S. Raman & Jonice Gray Tucker, The Expansion of Liability for Predatory and Discriminatory Lending to Secondary Mortgage Market Participants, PRACTISING L. INST. CORP. L. & PRAC. COURSE HANDBOOK SERIES, PLI Order No. 11451 at 823 (Dec. 5, 2007).
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Practice Areas
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Bar Admissions
District of Columbia
Maryland
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland