Jeremiah S. Buckley

Jerry Buckley is a founding partner of BuckleySandler LLP and founder of Treliant Risk Advisors LLC, a leading consulting firm serving the financial services industry. BuckleySandler 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.

Mr. Buckley’s practice involves the defense of companies that are targets of inquiries or enforcement actions by the OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, CFPB, FTC, HUD and State attorneys general. He acts as counsel for a number of national financial services trade associations in matters before regulatory agencies and Congress, and 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 is a co-founder of the State Attorneys General Enforcement Network (STAGE Network) that serves as a resource to the financial services industry monitoring state AG initiatives as well as state regulatory developments (http://www.stage-network.com). He also serves as general counsel of the Electronic Signatures and Records Association (http://www.esignrecords.org). 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 is co-author of Introduction to Mortgage Lending (ABA, 2009), The Law of Electronic Signatures and Records (West, 2009) and a number of articles on electronic signatures and records including: "Electronic Signatures - Changing the Financial Landscape," The Conference on Consumer Finance Law, Quarterly Report (2000, co-author) and "The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act - An Overview," Boston University School of Law, Annual Review of Banking Law (2001, co-author).

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Buckley served as Republican Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. During his service on the committee staff, he participated in drafting banking and bank holding company legislation, housing legislation, securities law amendments, RESPA, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Truth in Lending amendments and other finance-related legislation. As Republican Staff Director, he also assisted in drafting the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Community Reinvestment Act and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.

In January 2005, Mr. Buckley was one of only 114 attorneys nationwide named a member of the "2005 BTI Client Service All-Star's" team for law firms, and was identified by a client as "delivering truly outstanding and superior service." In March 2009, Mr. Buckley was named an eMortgage All-Star by Mortgage Banking magazine. Mr. Buckley was also named one of Washington, DC’s Top Financial Services Lawyers by Washingtonian magazine, December 2009. Mr. Buckley was selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2008, 2009, and 2010. In Chambers 2010, Mr. Buckley is ranked as Band 2 in Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance). Chambers says he is “valued by clients for his advice on strategic matters including formations, acquisitions and risk management” and “an acknowledged expert on the regulation surrounding the e-delivery of documents.”

Mr. Buckley received his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1969 and his A.B. from Fairfield University in 1966.