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CHARLOTTE, NC--Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC today announced that Donald C. Lampe has been elected the Chair of the Committee on Consumer Financial Services of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA). Lampe is a member of Womble Carlyle's Capital Markets Practice Group in the firm's Charlotte and Greensboro offices.

Lampe was recently selected as chair of the Committee at the ABA's Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The Consumer Financial Services Committee is one of the largest committees in the Business Law Section of the ABA, with approximately 900 members. Membership includes many of Womble Carlyle's financial clients, as well as senior government lawyers and law firm attorneys from throughout the United States. Lampe will head the Committee's efforts in programming, meetings, publications, pro bono service and ABA leadership for the next three years. He is the first lawyer from the Southeast to be elected to this post.

The committee includes lawyers whose practices are primarily or partly concentrated in consumer financial services regulation. Most members represent financial services providers, although some represent consumers or their interests, whether in private practice or as public service lawyers, and others are government attorneys or law professors. The Committee focuses on new developments in consumer financial services law in such areas as truth in lending and consumer disclosure; financial privacy, credit reporting, information security, and identity theft; federal preemption of state and local laws; electronic delivery of consumer financial services; credit discrimination and access to such services; consumer financial services litigation and arbitration; residential real estate secured lending; personal property secured financing and leasing; and debt collection and consumer bankruptcy.

"I am honored to serve as Chair of the Consumer Financial Services Committee," said Lampe. "I look forward to using my financial law experience and resources to serve the committee and further its efforts in the consumer law arena."

Lampe's practice includes compliance counseling, administrative and legislative matters, product development (including electronic delivery and e-commerce), litigation and dispute resolution, and complex financial transactions (such as asset securitizations) for some of the nation's largest banks and bank holding companies, thrifts and thrift affiliates, insurance, finance and technology companies and other financial service providers, as well as trade groups and industry organizations.

Lampe received his bachelor's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his J.D. from Duke University School of Law.

About Womble Carlyle
A full-service business law firm, Womble Carlyle ranks among AmLaw's 100 leading firms in the country and is a top law firm for companies doing business in the South Atlantic states. The firm is a recipient of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Corporate Leadership Award, making Womble Carlyle the first law firm ever to receive the highest honor given to a company in recognition of its support of the Fund and its 45 member educational institutions.

Founded in 1876, Womble Carlyle operates in five states and the District of Columbia with more than 500 attorneys in ten offices located in Atlanta, GA; Greenville, SC; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, NC; Washington, DC; Tysons Corner, VA; and Wilmington, DE. Although located in the South Atlantic region, Womble Carlyle draws its client base from across the United States.