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Jonice Gray Tucker

Partner

  • p. 202.349.8005
  • f. 202.349.8080
  • jtucker@buckleysandler.com

Biography

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 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB"), the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 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 also has represented individual clients in criminal matters and related civil appellate litigation. Ms. Tucker has particular expertise in loan servicing, having represented several major servicers in landmark litigation and enforcement actions.

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 has been 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.

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). 

Associations

  • Chair for Retail Banking and Consumer Law, American Bar Association - Banking Law Committee
  • Co-Vice-Chair for Fair Access to Services, American Bar Association - Consumer Financial Services Committee
  • Board of Trustees, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
  • Executive Committee, Yale Law School Association
  • Board of Directors, The Kolar Charitable Foundation
  • Chair, BuckleySandler Diversity Committee

Significant Representations

Publications

Mortgage Crisis Triggers Stronger Focus on Vendors
National Notary Association, March 8, 2013

Consumer Complaint Management: Meeting Regulatory Expectations
The Review of Banking and Financial Services, October 1, 2012

Liabilities for Servicers: Localities Jump in the Game
Mortgage Servicing News, October 2012

Will Vendors Create New Liability for Servicers?
Mortgage Banking Magazine, July 9, 2012

Regulatory Actions Melding Into National Servicing Standards
Servicing Management, February 29, 2012

Fair Lending Refocused: Loan Modification and Loss Mitigation Outcome Reviews
LexisNexis Emerging Issues Analysis, September 26, 2011

Robosigning Revisited: Is the Foreclosure Documentation Crisis Spreading to Bankruptcy Courts?
Thomson Reuters, May 23, 2011

Regulators Target Fair Servicing
Mortgage Banking, June 11, 2010

Fair-Lending Principles Must Underpin Loss Mit
Servicing Management, June 1, 2010

Mortgage Servicing Under Fire
The Review of Banking and Financial Services, June 1, 2010

The Expansion of Liability for Predatory and Discriminatory Lending to Secondary Mortgage Market Participants (Practicing Law Institute Corporate Law & Practice Course Handbook Series, PLI Order No. 11451 at 823, December 5, 2007).

Weathering the Subprime Storm
American Securitization, July 1, 2007

Knowledge & Insights

In The News

Speaking Engagements & Events

Awards & Recognition

  • Super Lawyers 2013: Banking, Consumer Law, Civil Litigation Defense
  • September 2007: Stakeholder 100 Award
  • International Union of Police Associations, October 2006: President's Award