Robert W. Rutkowski

Attorney, blogger, podcast producer and nationally-recognized speaker, Rob Rutkowski is Managing Partner of the Credit Union department of Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A. Through his work at WWR, Mr. Rutkowski advises credit unions on compliance, contract negotiation and employment law as well as a vast array of collection and legal issues. Mr. Rutkowski is a well-known lecturer nationwide on topics such as marketing and lending compliance, director and officer liability, disaster recovery, identity theft, credit union accounts and a variety of laws impacting credit unions, such as the Bank Secrecy Act. He is a regular speaker at credit union leagues across the United States and has served a speaker for CUNA, NAFCU and CUES. A former member of the Board of Directors for the Lake County Educational Federal Credit Union, Mr. Rutkowski remains very involved wih the legal issues that matter to the credit union movement. He is the Producer and Co-host of the monthly Current Issues in Credit Unions podcast (www.ciicu.com) and the author of That Credit Union Blog (www.thatcreditunionblog.com), which is dedicated to covering timely credit union legal news. He has been published in Credit Union Magazine, Credit Union Management Magazine, The Cleveland Bar Journal and The National List. Mr. Rutkowski received his B.A. from the University of Akron in 1988 and his J.D. from the Case Wetsern Reserve University School of Law in 1991. He is licensed in Ohio and admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Ohio.