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stacy

A versatile litigator and compliance advisor, Stacy defends clients against high-stakes commercial lawsuits and helps them build and enhance their compliance programs.

Stacy has extensive experience defending lawsuits involving the defense of putative class actions, vendor disputes, Florida UCC claims, business torts and contract claims, trade secrets litigation, claims for breach of fiduciary duty, and consumer protection claims. She regularly defends clients against individual and putative class action claims raised pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act (FCCPA), Florida Security of Communications Act (FSCA), Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).

With an emphasis on the financial services industry, including creditors, purchasers, servicers, and vendors of all varieties, Stacy helps clients navigate the ever-evolving and complex regulatory landscape. That means building or modernizing outdated policies, procedures, and compliance management systems, assisting with responses to regulatory inquiries and licensing examinations, advising on day-to-day operations, decisions, and initiative with an eye to industry compliance, preparing and negotiating client and vendor contracts, assisting clients with audits, and defending against allegations of non-compliance.

Stacy also advises clients across all industries with respect to communications compliance. She prepares compliant disclosures, consent and revocation language and flows for calls, texts, emails, and online chats, and she defends against related statutory claims. 

Stacy took a non-traditional path to the law, focusing her undergraduate education at Marshall University on the integration of science and technology, with an emphasis on biotechnology. Prior to joining Much, she worked at an AmLaw 100 firm in South Florida for over a decade.

Much More Than My Work

In addition to being a lawyer and mom, I am an avid equestrian. I spend most of my free time at the barn or in the saddle.

Client Successes

Consumer and Class Action Defense

  • Obtained a summary judgment order dismissing a multi-million-dollar putative class action for an alleged violation of the TCPA filed against a jeweler in the Southern District of Florida.
  • Obtained a favorable settlement in a putative class action against a Florida night club based on allegations that promotional text messages violated Florida’s mini-TCPA.
  • Obtained voluntary dismissal of a FACTA putative class action seeking millions in class damages against a commercial gym following a motion to dismiss for lack of standing or, alternatively, to compel arbitration.
  • Obtained dismissal of a TCPA putative class action against an insurance company after challenging the adequacy of the complaint’s factual allegations and form.
  • Obtained the dismissal and/or voluntary dismissal of multiple putative class action lawsuits filed against dozens of insurance companies in various state and federal courts across the country, involving claims for reimbursement of Medicare Advantage Organizations for conditional payments allegedly made for medical treatments.

Consumer and Class Action Defense

  • Obtained a favorable settlement recovery for a debt buyer after filing suit against a debt repackager and seller and raising claims of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, and tortious interference and successfully defended against a motion to dismiss those claims in federal court.
  • Obtained the dismissal of multiple lawsuits against a lease-to-purchase company raising usury and statutory claims under Texas and Florida laws.
  • Obtained a summary judgment for a cosmetics company faced with Florida UCC claims in state court related to the sale of medical gloves.
  • Secured emergency TRO following a highly contested evidentiary hearing in Broward County state court, expelling a food services vendor from a sports complex due to unsanitary practices.
  • Obtained order dissolving an ex parte injunction entered against an aviation aftermarket services client in connection with allegations of trade secret violations arising from transitioning employees, following a full-day evidentiary hearing with multiple fact and expert witnesses in a Florida state court.
  • Co-chaired a federal bench trial in the Eastern District of New York, including the examination and cross-examination of key witnesses, to defend a credit card processing company against a $30 million trademark and contract case.
  • Co-chaired private arbitration defending a legal insurance provider against breach of contract claims, including the examination and cross-examination of multiple witnesses.

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