Banking Law

Having hit two personal milestones this year, my sixtieth birthday and my thirty-fifth year practicing law, I figured it was past time to begin doing honest work. So, I talked two old and dear friends of mine, John Walker and Tom Bieging, both lawyers (although John?s been a business executive, consultant, and ?recovering lawyer? for almost eighteen years now), into joining me to form a business to try to do seriously what I have been trying to do semi-seriously through this blog for the past five years: educating those who want to be educated about the banking law and other areas at the intersection of the business of banking and the law that governs banking.

We?ve called our educational and consulting firm ?Bank Business Advisors, LLC,? due mainly to the fact that we?re not very original, but also to the fact that it accurately describes the nature of our business. To better pursue our goal of educating others, we formed a joint venture with a business that has been around for a few years and that aims to be the one-stop shop for banking information and education, Bankerstuff.com. They?ve become proficient at the delivery of content and webinars on topics of interest to bankers, and we?re pleased to be able to add our offering to their product mix.  Our venture will deliver co-branded webinars under the name BankLawStuff. Sure, the word ?stuff? sounds awfully informal for three old codgers, but then, none of the three of us would be accused of being overly formal. In addition, it gets the point across.

While the three principals of Bank Business Advisors intend to be actively involved in presenting many of the webinars, we also intend to use other speakers who we believe are capable of delivering expert and timely content to our intended audience. Our intent in delivering these webinars and other educational information concerning banking law is to give our listeners something of real value to take away from each webinar, something that is the result not only of the experience and expertise of the presenters, but of their willingness to share that experience and expertise with the listener and to tell the listener what they really think about the issues. BankLawStuff isn?t intended to be a ?tease? or a ?come on? for another business. It?s intended to be a stand-alone service. Therefore, we?ll try to make the content worth the cost.

The first webinar, scheduled for January 7th, is on the subject ?Responding to an Enforcement Action? and will be given by Joseph Lynyak III, a former FDIC attorney and currently a partner in the Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., offices of Venable LLP. For bankers, especially regional and community bankers, it?s a timely topic, and Joe knows his ?stuff.?

Other webinars are scheduled, and readers may find one or more of them to be of interest.  Certainly, we hope that they do.