Joseph Kolar

Joe Kolar is a founding Partner of Buckley LLP, resident in the Washington, D.C., office. Mr. Kolar regularly counsels financial institutions, financial services companies, mortgage lenders and servicers, mortgage insurers, national trade associations, nonprofits, and others in complying with mortgage and consumer loan contracts and lending and servicing regulations, including those relating to real estate settlement procedures (RESPA), truth in lending (TILA), ability to repay, loan originator compensation, appraisals, equal credit opportunity (ECOA)/fair housing/fair lending/fair servicing, privacy, fair credit reporting (FCRA), electronic signatures and records (ESRA), escrows, flood insurance, lender-placed insurance, debt collection, loss mitigation and foreclosures, federal preemption, community reinvestment (CRA), disclosures, state law and regulations, and licensing.

Mr. Kolar is a member of the Consumer Financial Services Committee of the American Bar Association, where he is a past Co-chair of the Housing Finance and RESPA Subcommittee, and a member of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. Prior to practicing law, Mr. Kolar worked as a staff member for former U.S. Representative Jim Leach (R-IA).

Mr. Kolar currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Legal Counsel for the Elderly, which is associated with AARP, and of Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington, and is President of the Kolar Charitable Foundation of Buckley.

Mr. Kolar received a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1985 (cum laude), where he was an Associate Editor of The Tax Lawyer, and a B.B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1982.