Joann Needleman

215 789-7151

joann@mnlawpc.com

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Joann Needleman is Vice President of Maurice & Needleman, P.C., where she is the Managing Attorney of the firm’s Philadelphia office. Joann has extensive litigation experience in state and federal courts, successfully defending creditors against claims brought under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act and, in Pennsylvania, under the Fair Credit Extension Uniformity Act. She provides counsel, consultation and litigation services to financial institutions, law firms and debt buyers throughout the country.

Joann has been included by Law & Politics Magazine in the list of the top 50 female lawyers in the state of Pennsylvania, and has been included in the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list in Bankruptcy & Debtor/Creditor Rights.¹ Joann is peer-rated BV by Martindale-Hubbell, the nationwide guide to lawyers.² Joann is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania & New Jersey, as well as the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association and is a past president of the Pennsylvania Creditors' Bar Association. In addition, Joann is a MAP Attorney member of the American Collectors Association and serves as Secretary to the National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys (NARCA), as well as being a member of its Board of Directors.

Credentials: Admitted to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bars in 1994. President Pennsylvania Creditors’ Bar Association, 1999 – 2002.

Education: Temple University (B.A. 1986); Widener School of Law (J.D. 1994).

Speaking Engagements: What’s New in DC: An Overview of the Financial Services Regulatory Environment in 2010, ABA’s Consumer Financial Services Committee Winter Meeting, January 2010; FDCPA Reform: Update from Congress and the FTC, National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys Fall Meeting, October 2009; New Trends in FDCPA Litigation, American Collectors Association, MAP Conference, July 2008; Avoiding Fair Credit Reporting Act Traps, 2007 Debt Buyers Association, February 2007; Fair Credit Reporting Act - Basics and Case Law Update, Commercial Law League, November 2006; Defending Debtor Scams, 2005 Fall Convention, National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys; Dauphin County Bar Association Quarterly Meeting (April 2001), Contributor and Author of Seminar for 2001 Fall Convention National Association of Retail Collections Attorneys, Sub-Prime Lending (October 2001); Testified before Pennsylvania State Senate Judiciary Committee on proposed amendments to Wage Garnishment Law (April 2000). 

Representative Cases: Marshall v. PRA & Bailey, 2009 U.S. Dist LEXIS 71414; Bartell v. Dell Fin. Servs., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 736 (E.D. Pa. 2007); James v. Interstate Credit & Collection, Inc., 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15495 (E.D. Pa. 2005); In re Wilmington Hospitality, 320 B.R. 73 (E.D.PA. 2005); Zisholtz v. Goldstein (In re Martin's Aquarium, Inc.), 98 Fed. Appx. 911 (3d Cir. 2004); In re Wilmington Hospitality LLC, 2003 Bankr. LEXIS 404 (Bankr. D. Pa. 2003); In re S.W.G. Realty Assocs., II, L.P., 265 B.R. 534 (E.D. Pa. 2001); Garland v. Enterprise Leasing Co., 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18116 (D. Pa. 1999).
 

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