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Benjamin Diehl practices in both the Financial Services/Class Action and Government Relations Practice Groups. He advises financial services companies and other clients with regard to compliance and regulatory matters and defends class actions and proceedings commenced by government agencies.

Prior to joining Stroock, Mr. Diehl was with the California Attorney General’s Office for many years, most recently serving as Supervising Deputy Attorney General in the Consumer Law Section, where he oversaw civil prosecutions brought by the Attorney General’s Mortgage Fraud Strike Force and participated in other investigatory matters across multiple issues and industries. Among other things, Mr. Diehl played an active role in the negotiation of the multi-state National Mortgage Settlement, negotiation of the settlement between Trilegiant Corporation and multiple State Attorneys General, negotiation of the multi-state settlement between Ameriquest and multiple State Attorneys General, and the drafting of revisions to the California Foreclosure Process (dubbed the "Homeowner Bill of Rights" by the California Attorney General’s office).

Mr. Diehl received a 2013 California Lawyer of the Year Award for his work on the National Mortgage Settlement, and also was awarded the 2007 Attorney General’s Award for Excellence and the 2008 and 2011 Attorney General’s Award for Excellence as a Team. He has taught at the UCLA School of Law and spoken at many conferences, including PLI’s Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute on multiple occasions.

Prior to joining the Attorney General's Office in 2002, Mr. Diehl was a staff attorney and Skadden Foundation Fellow at Bet Tzedek Legal Services, where he specialized in real property and predatory lending matters, as well as related areas of consumer law.

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HONORS & AWARDS

• Named by California Lawyer as one of the "2013 Attorneys of the Year" for his work in consumer law
• Attorney General's Award for Excellence as a Team, 2008 and 2011
• Attorney General's Award for Excellence, 2007

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MEMBERSHIPS

• Member, Banking Editorial Advisory Board, Law360

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SPEECHES & EVENTS

• Speaker, "Spotlight on Fair Debt Collection Practices: Strategies for Ensuring Compliance and Avoiding Liability," American Conference Institute's 6th Bank & Non-Bank Forum on Mortgage Servicing Compliance, Washington, DC, November 30-December 1, 2016
• Speaker, "Strategies for Servicers in Achieving Effective Customer Complaint Management," American Conference Institute's 4th Bank & Non-Bank Forum on Mortgage Servicing Compliance, Dallas, TX, June 25-26, 2015
• Panelist, "CFPB Update: What Recent CFPB Developments Mean for Your Bank," American Banker, Webinar, May 7, 2015
• Speaker, "Examining the CFPB: A Glimpse at the Bureau's 2015 Rulemaking Agenda," Practising Law Institute Briefing, Webinar, January 21, 2015
• Speaker, "Mortgage Servicers and the FDCPA: CFPB Potential Rulemaking and Involvement in Debt Collection, When a Servicer is Considered a Debt-Collector for FDCPA Purposes, and the Latest on Enforcement of Security Interests and Common FDCPA Claims Against Servicers," American Conference Institute's 3rd Bank & Non-Bank Forum on Mortgage Servicing Compliance, Washington, DC, November 20-21, 2014
• Moderator, "View from Federal and State Agencies on the Latest Regulatory, Supervision, Investigation and Enforcement Initiatives, Examination Procedures, and Attorneys General Lawsuits Against Financial Services Companies," American Conference Institute's Consumer Finance Class Actions & Litigation Conference, San Francisco, CA, October 23, 2014
• Speaker, "Other Pivotal Residential Mortgage Issues," Residential Mortgage Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement Conference, Washington, DC, April 24, 2014
• Speaker, "The View from the State Agencies and State AG Offices on Emerging Regulatory Initiatives, Enforcement Actions, and Investigations," 2014 Consumer Finance Class Action & Litigation Conference, Los Angeles, CA, April 9, 2014
• Speaker, "State Regulatory Initiatives and Developments," Practicing Law Institute, New York, NY, April 7-8, 2014; Chicago, IL, April 28-29, 2014
• Speaker, "CFPB Finalizes June 2013 Amendments and Clarifications to Mortgage Rules CFPB Mortgage Rules," Practicing Law Institute, Webinar, November 13, 2013

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PUBLICATIONS

• Co-author, "CFPB Proposes Amendments to TRID Rule," Stroock Special Bulletin, August 1, 2016
• Co-author, "CFPB Proposes "Drastic Overhaul" of Debt Collection," Stroock Special Bulletin, July 29, 2016
• Co-author, "CFPB Announces Proposed Rule Regulating Payday Lending," Stroock Special Bulletin, 
  June 3, 2016
• Co-author, "CFPB Publishes Long-Awaited Proposed Rule Precluding Class-Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements," Stroock Special Bulletin, May 5, 2016
• Co-author, "Seventh Circuit Rules No Heightened 'Ascertainability' Requirement," Stroock Special Bulletin, July 29, 2015
• Co-author, "Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Data Breach Class Action on Standing Grounds," Stroock Special Bulletin, July 22, 2015
• Co-author, "TCPA Verdict Used To Recruit Plaintiffs Through Social Media," Stroock Special Bulletin, July 14, 2015
• Co-author, "FCC Issues TCPA Declaratory Ruling," Stroock Special Bulletin, July 13, 2015
• Co-author, "FCC Votes On Pending TCPA Petitions," Stroock Special Bulletin, June 18, 2015
• Co-author, "Court Dismisses Data Breach Action, Rejecting Multiple Standing Theories," Stroock Special Bulletin, June 3, 2015
• “2015 CFPB: cars, cards and mortgages,” Los Angeles Daily Journal, December 17, 2014
• "Multi-State Negotiations: An Overview," The Review of Banking & Financial Services, October 2014, Vol. 30, No. 10
• "Regulatory Scrutiny Increases on Lenders' Collection Practices With Respect to Third Parties and Data Integrity," Banking Law Journal, February 2014
• Co-author, "Supreme Court In Mississippi ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics Corp. Holds That State Parens Patriae Actions Are Not Removable Under The Class Action Fairness Act," Stroock Special Bulletin, January 16, 2014

Quoted in:
 

• "CFPB's Legal Setback Goes Beyond Constitutionality," Compliance Week, October 18, 2016
• "CFPB Readies Rule on Small-Dollar Lending for June," Bloomberg Law: Banking, May 20, 2016
• "CFPB Faces No-Win Scenario on Payday Lending," American Banker, March 21, 2016
• "Bad News for Banks: More Regulatory Risk Is Coming, With a Political Twist," Compliance Week, January 12, 2016

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ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

California

U.S. District Court, Central District of California; U.S. District Court, Southern District of California; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

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EDUCATION

J.D., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1997

B.A., cum laude, Pomona College, 1994