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WILLIAM M. RUDOW, ESQUIRE William M. Rudow, Esquire has represented auto finance lenders regarding credit, collections, recovery, bankruptcy, training and regulatory related issues as in-house and outside counsel for over 27 years. Mr. Rudow was in-house at Commercial Credit Corporation and Maryland National Bank (purchased by NationsBank) the largest financial institution in Maryland before pre-interstate banking. At Commercial Credit Corporation, Mr. Rudow represented, inter alia, Commercial Credit Leasing Corporation and other related entities handling the repossession and sale of consumer motor vehicles, fleets of commercial vehicles, fleets of federally documented vessels, rolling stock, locomotives, fleets of aircraft, consumer aircraft, farm vehicles. At Maryland National Bank, Mr. Rudow represented, inter alia, the Retail Finance Division, Small Business Banking and Professional Banking units handling consumer and commercial motor vehicles and consumer and commercial vessels federally documented and state registered. Mr. Rudow has assisted major national banks recover fraud related losses in Maryland and Washington, D.C. since the late 1990s. These include auto fraud, marine fraud, credit application fraud, mortgage loan fraud, employee fraud and check fraud. Mr. Rudow presented auto-finance fraud prevention training to the Maryland Association for Bank Security. In 2000 Mr. Rudow founded Collections Consultants, LLC a group that presented Mortgage Fraud Prevention training and seminars. This group trained several lenders* across the country – from Reno Nevada to Jacksonville Florida to Baltimore Maryland, to Indianapolis Indiana, Mr. Rudow has presented an annual seminar for the National Business Institute on Maryland Collections focusing on auto-finance annually since 2005. Mr. Rudow is licensed to practice in the state and federal courts in Maryland and Washington, D.C. and federal court in Michigan. Mr. Rudow has been lead counsel in complex cases in federal courts in the following jurisdictions: California, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia, Missouri, Michigan, Arizona, Minnesota and 11th Circuit, Court of Appeals. Mr. Rudow’s clients include(d) the: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation., NationsBank, Maryland National Bank, SunStar Financial Services, Inc., WFS Financial, Inc. Mercantile Safe Deposit & Trust Company, Mr. Rudow represents lenders in all matters relating to consumer and commercial finance transactions, loan documentation, collections, restructuring, workouts and bankruptcy, and the enforcement of creditor’s rights and remedies. The areas of practice specifically include banking and lending law, creditor rights in bankruptcy, commercial law, contract law and civil litigation. Mr. Rudow performs Civil Litigation/Defense regarding auto finance regulatory violation claims, consumer complaint litigation, federal and state drug forfeiture of bank collateral, Artisan lien Md Com Law Art Title 16, Subtitle 3, state Abandoned Vehicles Md Trans Art Title 25, Subtitle 2, negotiable instrument,* safe deposit box,* Bankruptcy Motions: lift stay 11 U.S.C. § 362,* cram down secured collateral value 11 U.S.C. § 506(a), avoid lien 11 U.S.C. § 522(f), determine the dischargeability of debt 11 U.S.C. § 523,* dismiss or conversion 11 U.S.C. § 727,* preference action 11 U.S.C. § 547, fraudulent transfer, 11 U.S.C. § 548; Bank Training: computerized/automated commercial loan credit approval and documentation product. Mr. Rudow received his BA from the University of Maryland in 1983 and his JD from the University of Baltimore in 1986. Mr. Rudow is an active member of the IAFCI and the IAFCI Mortgage Fraud Task Force. Mr. Rudow is a member of the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators. Mr. Rudow