Profile
Lisa M. Simonetti focuses on the defense of complex litigation, with broad experience representing clients in the financial services industry, including regional and national banks, credit card issuers, mortgage bankers, various types of loan servicers, consumer finance companies and third-party collectors. She serves as trial and appellate counsel in courts across the country and routinely counsels financial services clients on compliance with state and federal laws and regulations.
Concentrations
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act
- Fair Credit Reporting Act
- Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
- Truth in Lending Act and Regulation Z
- Loan origination and loan servicing issues
- Unfair and deceptive trade practices
- Consumer fraud
- Identity theft
- Predatory lending
Capabilities
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Litigation – Banking and Finance, 2016-2024
- Listed, "Lawyer of the Year," Litigation – Banking and Finance, Los Angeles, 2022 and 2024
- Named, Los Angeles Times, "Banking and Finance Visionary," 2021-2023
Credentials
Education
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J.D., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 1993
- Member, International and Comparative Law Journal
- B.A., University of California at Los Angeles, 1986
Admissions
- California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
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Admitted in California. Not admitted in New York.