| Admitted | 1978, Alabama; 2002, Mississippi; 2004, Kentucky and Texas; 2005, Tennessee, West Virginia and Florida; U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern and Middle Districts of Alabama, U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi, U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia, U.S. District Court, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, U.S. District Court, Western and Eastern Districts of Kentucky, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth, Sixth, and Eleventh Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court |
| Biography | John Chiles is a partner at Burr & Forman LLP which maintains offices in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee. John practices in the firm's Birmingham, Alabama office in the Consumer Finance Practice Group of the Litigation Section. His current practice features a concentration on class action and mass action litigation in the area of mortgage and consumer finance law. John has served as lead counsel in numerous class actions and mass actions brought under an array of federal consumer protection statutes and state law theories. John is Vice Chair for Programs of the Consumer Finance Committee of the ABA Business Law Section, and is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association, the Conference on Consumer Finance Law, RESPRO, American Land Title Association, the National Association of Dealer's Counsel, the MAP Division of the ACA, NARCA, the Banking Law Committee of American Bar Association Business Section, the Litigation Section of the ABA, and both the Alabama and Mississippi Consumer Finance Associations. He also serves as the Alabama state editor of HouseLaw. John has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America since 2007. He was also included in the 2008 and 2009 editions of Alabama Super Lawyers in the Class Action/ Mass Tort category. He was selected for inclusion in the 2011 Alabama Super Lawyers in the area of Consumer Law. John is graduate of Johns Hopkins University (1973) and the University of Alabama School of Law (1978). He is a member of the bar in the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Georgia and Florida and is admitted to practice before all U.S. District Courts in Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Fifth Circuit, Sixth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Memberships & Bar Associations American Bar Association Alabama State Bar Mississippi State Bar Texas State Bar Tennessee State Bar Kentucky State Bar West Virginia State Bar The Florida Bar Birmingham Bar Association Publications and Articles State-by-State Compendium of Recent MERS-Related Litigation, 3 Fin. Fraud L. Rep. 399 (May 2011) |
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Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: The FundamentalsJohn R. Chiles,Zachary D. Miller, March 29, 2011 Enacted in 1978, the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") was created to "eliminate abusive debt collection practices by debt collectors" by placing restrictions on the communications that debt collectors have with consumers and by protecting debt collectors who...
State-by-State Compendium of Recent MERS-Related LitigationJohn R. Chiles,Katrina D. Chisholm,Zachary D. Miller, March 29, 2011 Since the earliest stages of the economic meltdown that has rocked the financial system both in the United States and abroad, an inordinate amount of time has been spent searching for someone, or something, to blame. Charges of impropriety have been levied against Wall Street on a consistent... |