Michael C. Tomkies - Columbus, OH

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    J.D., 1986
    Law Journal: Harvard Journal on Legislation, Editor; Comments Editor, 1983 - 1986

• Non Legal Education

  • Hampden-Sydney College
    B.A., 1983
    Honors: summa cum laude
    Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
    Honors: President's Award for Excellence, Social Sciences
    Honors: Omicron Delta Epsilon
    Honors: Phi Sigma Iota
    Honors: Omicron Delta Kappa

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker, Virtual Currency: What is it? Where is it going?, National Association of Consumer Credit Administrators Consumer Services/Examiner School, 2015
  
• Speaker, The New Regulatory Environment: What Healthcare Providers May Not Know About Consumer Credit Law And How it Can Hurt Them, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Compliance Webinar, 2013
  
• Roundtable, People to Know in Banking and Finance, Columbus Business First, 2013
  
• Speaker, The Banking Law Institute and Executive Enterprises Institute, Payment Card Institute: Solicitation DOs and DON'Ts Workshops (various)
  
• Will States Succeed in Watering Down National Banks' Preemption Rights, Co-Sponsor, American Bar Association, Spring Meeting of the Section of Business Law, 2007
  
• Co-Chair, Bank Charters and Preemption Challenges: Where Do We Go From Here?, American Bar Association, Consumer Financial Services Committee, Winter Meeting, 2003
  
• Co-Chair, It's A Small World After All: Consumer Financial Services In A Global Economy, American Bar Association Spring Meeting of the Section of Business Law, 2000
  
• Chair, Interstate Telemarketing and Debt Collection, American Bar Association Annual Meeting, 1994
  
• Speaker, American Bar Association, Consumer Financial Services Committee (various)
  
• Speaker, American Financial Services Association, Law Committee, Payment Devices and Retail Banking Subcommittee, Counsel
  
• Speaker, American Financial Services Association, State & Government Relations Committee (various)
  
• Speaker, Business Without Borders: The Impact of NAFTA on the Industry and Regulators, American Financial Services Association, Administrators/Industry Program, 1994
  
• Speaker, Merchants Research Council (various)
  
• Speaker, Credit Card Bank Compliance Association (various)
  
• Speaker, Columbus Bar Association, Financial Institutions Committee (various)
  
• Speaker, North American Free Trade Agreement: Financial Services, Ohio CLE Institute
  
• Speaker, Interstate Banking, Banking Law Institute
  
• Speaker, National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys
  
• ABA National Institute on Consumer Financial Services, 2013

Published Works

Articles

• Are Cryptocurrencies on Their Way to Becoming a Trusted Payment Alternative?, 38 BANKING & FIN. SERV. REP. 1, January 2019
  
• Navigating TCPA Litigation, CONSUMER Fin. Servs. L. Rep., Oct. 29, 2019
  
• California Enacts Consumer Privacy Act: Will Other States Follow?, CONSUMER Fin. Servs. L. Rep., Oct. 2, 2018
  
• Virtual Currency: A Commodity, Property, Security, or Payment Substitute?, 37 BANKING & FIN. SERV. REP. 1, July 2018
  
• Madden v. Midland Funding: The Fall Out, CONSUMER Fin. Servs. L. Rep., May 2, 2017
  
• Stay Far from the Madden-ing Crowd: Where Preemption Meets Contract Law, 69 Consumer Fin. L.Q. Rep., 227, 2015
• Stop the Madden Madness, LAW 360, Nov. 25, 2015
• Defining the Scope of Federal Preemption: State Farm, Exclusive Agents and Other Emerging Issues, 64 BUS. LAW 605, 2009
• Regulating the Subprime Market: Finding the Right Balance, 17 BUS. LAW. Today 21, Jul/Aug, 2008
• Preemption and Federalism Developments: Watters Under the Bridge, 63 BUS. LAW. 703, 2008
• Mired in the Process?: The Future of State Bank Preemption, 62 BUS. LAW. 713, 2007
• Editorial panel, The American Bar Association Guide to Credit & Bankruptcy, January, 2006
• Developments in the Interstate Delivery of Consumer Financial Services, 50 BUS. LAW. 1093, 1995
• Developments Regarding Interstate Lending and Non-Usury Theories Attacking Loan Charges, 48 CONSUMER FIN. L.Q. REP. 38, 1994
• Developments in the Interstate Delivery of Consumer Financial Services: Location, Fees and Common Law, 49 BUS. LAW. 1325, 1994
• Interstate Delivery of Consumer Financial Services: Credit Card Issuers Win Decisions in Greenwood Trust and Related Cases, 48 BUS. LAW. 1097, 1993
• Interstate Consumer Credit Transactions: Card Issuers Win Fee exhortation Cases, 47 CONSUMER FIN. L.Q. REP. 105, 1993
• Interstate Delivery of Consumer Financial Services: Greenwood Trust Decision Rendered, 47 BUS. LAW. 1251, 1992
• Interstate Consumer Credit Transactions: Greenwood Trust and Other Developments, 46 CONSUMER FIN. L.Q. REP. 50, 1992
• Interstate Consumer Credit Transactions: Recent Developments, 43 CONSUMER FIN. L.Q. REP. 152, 1989

Bar Admissions

• Ohio, 1986
• District of Columbia, 1988

Other Affiliations

• American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers (Fellow)
• Conference on Consumer Finance Law (Member, Governing Committee)
• American Bar Association, Business Law Section (Member)
• American Bar Association, Banking Law Committee (Vice Chair, Retail Banking and Consumer Law (former))
• American Bar Association (Member, Banking Law Committee)
• American Bar Association, Consumer Financial Services Committee (Chair, Federal Preemption and Federalism Subcommittee (former))
• American Bar Association, Consumer Financial Services Committee (Co-Chair, Preemption Task Force (former))
• American Bar Association, Consumer Financial Services Committee (Vice-Chair, Publications Subcommittee (former))
• American Bar Association, Consumer Financial Services Committee (Member)
• Ohio State Bar Association (Member)
• Columbus Bar Association (Member)
• Conference on Consumer Finance Law (Member)