HANOVER, Md.
— Hudson Cook LLP, a nationwide provider of legal compliance services for the
financial services industry, announced that attorney Michael A. Goodman from its Washington, D.C. office was appointed by the Business Law Section of the American Bar
Association to the chairmanship of the Federal and State Trade Practices
Subcommittee of the Consumer Financial Services Committee.
The subcommittee focuses on the
intersection of federal and state regulation of business practices, with an
emphasis on unfair and deceptive trade practices and marketing, advertising,
and privacy issues.
Robert Cook, managing partner of the
firm, said, “I’m both proud and pleased that the American Bar Association has
selected Michael for this responsibility. His background will allow him to
provide meaningful leadership to the Federal and State Trade Practices
Subcommittee.”
Prior to joining Hudson Cook in
2005, Goodman coordinated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rulemaking
efforts under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. He worked extensively on amendments to
the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule and litigated FTC consumer protection cases
targeting business opportunity fraud, telemarketing fraud, and deceptive
marketing of consumer services.
Michael holds a JD degree from the University of
Colorado School of Law in Boulder, Colorado, and a bachelor’s degree in American Studies
from
Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
