Alice Hrdy, partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Courtesy photo. Consumer Finance Law Enforcer Takes Private Practice Job at Morgan Lewis
Alice Hrdy spent three decades in government service and had been at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since the agency's inception in 2010.
July 01, 2024 at 05:00 AM
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Financial Services and Banking
What You Need to Know
- CFPB attorney Alice Hrdy started in Morgan Lewis' D.C. office Monday after concluding a 30-year career of enforcing consumer protection laws.
- Hrdy has served in leadership roles in the CFPB's supervisory wing since the bureau's 2010 inception.
- Prior to her time at the CFPB, Hrdy brought cases against financial services companies as an FTC lawyer.
After 30 years of enforcing consumer protection laws in the financial sector, government attorney Alice Hrdy has taken a job counseling Morgan, Lewis & Bockius' financial services clients as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced Monday.
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