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Diane Cipollone, Esq.
Cipollone Legal Consults LLC [email protected]
Diane Cipollone is a qualified expert on mortgage servicing and origination and provides expert testimony and consultation to consumer attorneys on these matters. Diane also provides fair lending and foreclosure prevention training and is a presenter at local and national conferences on topics including RESPA and TILA mortgage regulations, loss mitigation guidelines, fair lending and other consumer mortgage issues. She previously taught Consumer Housing Law in Maine: Mortgage Defaults and Foreclosure, as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maine School of Law.
Diane is also a consultant to the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), where she previously served as Director of Training. Her work includes federal policy advocacy on residential mortgages and other housing issues affecting homeowners in communities of color. She represents NFHA in an on-going working group convened by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Housing Policy Council of the Financial Services Roundtable, in an effort to develop industry-wide consensus regarding loss mitigation policies and procedures after the expiration of the federal Making Home Affordable Program.
Diane’s prior experience includes serving as the Director of the Sustainable Homeownership Project at Civil Justice Inc. in Baltimore, where she trained and mentored attorneys in Maryland’s Foreclosure Prevention Pro Bono Project, and represented homeowners at risk of foreclosure. Her other prior mortgage experience includes serving as the Project Attorney for NFHA’s Hurricane Katrina Relief Project and as the Co- Coordinator of the Baltimore City Flipping & Predatory Lending Task Force.
Diane is frequently interviewed for mortgage and foreclosure prevention news articles, and contributes research for mortgage related reports released by various organizations. She is admitted to practice law in Maryland and Maine and a volunteer attorney for Pine Tree Legal Assistance in Portland, ME. Diane is graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Diane Cipollone is the Director of the Fair Lending Training Program at the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA). The Training Program offers on site and webbased training nationwide to 2,000 employees of fair housing organizations, fair housing assistance programs, nonprofit housing counseling agencies, consumer protection agencies, and local jurisdictions, addressing fair housing, fair lending, loan scam and foreclosure prevention issues. Prior to returning to NFHA in May 2011, Diane served as Director of the Sustainable Homeownership Project at Civil Justice Inc., a nonprofit public interest law firm in Baltimore City. At Civil Justice Diane trained and mentored pro bono attorneys who volunteered their legal services to represent homeowners in Maryland’s Foreclosure Prevention Pro Bono Project. Diane also represented homeowners facing foreclosure and provided legal consultation to counselors at Maryland state-approved non-profit housing counseling agencies. She serves as an expert witness on mortgage servicing issues and is also a presenter at local and national conferences on topics including the federal Making Home Affordable Program, mortgage loan servicing practices, foreclosure prevention and other consumer issues affecting sustainable homeownership. Diane’s other experience includes serving as the Project Attorney for the Hurricane Relief Project of the National Fair Housing Alliance, and as the Co-Coordinator of the Baltimore City Flipping & Predatory Lending Task Force. Diane is a graduate of the Benjamin
N. Cardozo School of Law and admitted to practice law in Maryland and New York.