Banking Litigation

The firm’s Banking Litigation practice has an established reputation for experience in complex issues.

Our experience handling creditor remedies includes guaranty litigation, co-guarantor claims, defenses based on satisfaction of underlying mortgage debt and terms of underlying debt, property foreclosures, arrangements for receivers operating businesses as going concerns, enforcement of notes against borrowers and multistate litigation. In the area of bank operations, we have handled claims on fraudulent or forged signatures, negligence in check processing, misappropriation of funds, mishandling of customer securities, mismanagement of trusts and responses to government investigations and subpoenas.

We have substantial experience representing banks and other financial institution clients in complex cases involving fraud, RICO, ERISA, securities law violations, and "lender liability" claims. In addition, we frequently defend banking and financial institution clients in consumer fraud class action litigation.

Leonard, Street and Deinard routinely helps banks comply with regulatory requirements by providing audits, workshops and other preventive practices. In investigations, audits and insurance claims, our attorneys have repeatedly succeeded in disposing of cases without formal litigation.