Advocacy

ADVOCACY COMMITTEE
The Advocacy Committee is ALFN's key litigation, government relations, legislative and regulatory policy group. The group focuses on four strategic legislative areas: emerging federal legislative issues; emerging state legislative issues; regulatory rule-making, implementation, and comment; and, legislative events and publications. This group also focuses on complex litigation issues covering all aspects of default services and creditors’ rights legal issues.  Areas include foreclosure, REO, title, bankruptcy, class action, and other related complex litigation affecting the clients of ALFN member firms. The group meets quarterly and may schedule additional calls as necessary. The group is responsible for authoring/coordinating a Legislative & Regulatory Outlook insert in the Spring ALFN ANGLE magazine.

The Group builds on recent regulatory, vendor management, and file volume issues affecting ALFN members operating primarily in the mortgage default space. Designed as a forum to foster dialogue on long-term challenges facing the industry, one of the goals of this group is to increase transparency between mortgage servicers, their legal counsel, and the industry’s key regulatory bodies, with a particular focus on the interpretation, implementation, and enforcement of new mortgage servicing regulations and guidelines. This proactive, dialogue-driven group is tasked with leveraging the Association’s key influencers in a high-touch, diplomatic effort to build bridges, deepen relationships, and affect positive change in the perception of the mortgage servicing industry.  This group also conducts advocacy efforts with members of Congress, to educate them on the challenges in our industry, and keeps members of the ALFN apprised of legislation/bills that impact our industry.  This group plays an important role in the ALFN’s annual Advocacy Day in Washington, DC, when it is periodically held.

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Advocacy Leadership Team:

• Chair (Law Firm/Foreclosure Trustee member, must be an Attorney)
  • Ashley Elmore Drew, Esq. – Miller George & Suggs, PLLC – adrew@mgs-legal.com (term ends 12/31/25, then moves to Chair Emeritus for a 1-year term that ends 12/31/26)

 

• Vice Chair (Law Firm/Foreclosure Trustee member, must be an Attorney)
  • Brian Goldberg, Esq. – Gross Polowy – bgoldberg@grosspolowy.com (term ends 12/31/25, then moves to Chair for a 2-year term that ends 12/31/27)

• Servicer Chair (Servicer/GSE, can be an Attorney or non-Attorney)
  • Letxy Sosa – Carrington Mortgage Services – letxy.sosa@carringtonms.com (term ends 12/31/25, may be re-elected for another 2-year term)

 

• Chair Emeritus (Immediate Past Chair) (Law Firm/Foreclosure Trustee member, must be an Attorney)
  • Vacant Position

 

• ALFN Staff Liaison
  • Susan Rosen – ALFN – srosen@alfn.org

 

• ALFN Board Liaisons
  • Deanne Stodden, Esq. – Messner Reeves – dstodden@messner.com
  • Randy Miller, Esq. – Randall Miller & Associates – rmiller@rsmalaw.com

Appointed Leadership Positions (Not Members of the Committees Leadership Team. Appointed by the Committees Leadership Team):

• Secretary (Law Firm/Foreclosure Trustee member, can be an Attorney or non-Attorney)
  • Stephen Vargas, Esq. - Friedman Vartolo - svargas@grosspolowy.com (term would end 12/31/25, may be re-appointed for another 2-year term or may run for leadership team after term ends if qualified)

 

• Events, Content & Social Media – 2 Co-Chairs (Law Firm/Foreclosure Trustee member, 1 Co-Chair must be an Attorney)
  • Jeremy Lipford – Korde & Associates – jslipford@kordeassociates.com (term ends 12/31/25, may be re-appointed for another 2-year term or may run for leadership team after term ends)
  • Joseph Camillo - ALAW - jcamillo@alaw.net