Profile
Michele L. Stocker is Co-Chair of the Consumer Financial Services Litigation Practice and is a commercial litigator with a broad range of experience representing clients in the financial services industry including regional and national banks, loan servicers, consumer finance companies, mortgage bankers, credit card issuers, debt buyers and third-party debt collectors.
Concentrations
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act
- Contested mortgage foreclosures
- Fair Credit Reporting Act
- Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
- Truth in Lending Act and Regulation Z
- Mortgage loan origination and loan servicing issues
- Unfair and deceptive trade practices
- Consumer fraud
- Identity theft
- Predatory lending
- Force-placed insurance
- Class action defense
Capabilities
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, Chambers USA Guide, Litigation: General Commercial, 2022-2024
- Selected, Fort Lauderdale Illustrated, "Top Lawyers," 2023
- Recipient, ONYX Magazine, Women on the Move Award, 2021
- Recipient, South Florida Business & Wealth, Prestigious Women Award, 2021
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, 2013-2025
- Commercial Litigation, 2013-2025
- Litigation - Banking and Finance, 2023-2025
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Florida Super Lawyers, 2015-2024
- Listed, South Florida Legal Guide, "Top Lawyer," 2014-2016, 2021
- Team Member, U.S. News - Best Lawyers®, Best Law Firms Edition, "Law Firm of the Year," Banking & Finance - Litigation, 2017
- Listed, South Florida Business Journal, "Influential Business Women of 2016
- Listed, Legacy magazine, "South Florida's Most Prominent and Influential Women in Business and Industry," 2015
- Recipient, "Most Powerful & Influential Woman Award," National Diversity Council, 2015
- Honoree, "100 Outstanding Women of Broward County," Boys and Girls Clubs of Broward County, 2014
- Recipient, "2013 Top Hat Salute to Women of Achievement Award'" Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc, Zeta Rho Omega Chapter, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 9, 2013
- Featured, The Diversity Journal's "11th Annual Women Worth Watching Issue, 2013," September/October 2012
- Listed, Florida Trend magazine, "Legal Elite," Commercial Litigation, 2012
- Recipient, "2012 Glass Ceiling Award," The Florida Women's Conference - National Diversity Council, March 2012
- Recipient, "Love For Literacy Gala Honoree," Love for Literacy Gala, Crockett Foundation Inc., March 2012
- Listed, Business Leader magazine "South Florida's Women Extraordinaire," 2011
- Listed, "South Florida's 100 Most Accomplished Black's in Law," ICABA, 2009
- Profiled, Who's Who in Black South Florida, "South Florida's Most Influential," 2007
- Rated, AV Preeminent® 5.0 out of 5.0
- Chair, Pine Crest School - Fort Lauderdale, Board of Trustees
- Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Business Law Section, Consumer Financial Services Committee
- Board Member, Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova SouthEastern University, Board of Governors, 2013-2022
- Board Member, Children's Home Society of Florida, Intercoastal Division, 2007-2016
- Member, Orange Bowl Committee
- Member, Nominating Committee, 2024-2025
- Transportation Chair, 2024-2025
- Football Host Committee - Team B, 2024-2025
- Community Family Events Vice Chair - Broward, Sales Strategy Committee, 2024-2025
- Board Member, Crockett Foundation
- Circuit Civil Mediator, Florida Supreme Court
- Compliance Chair, American Collectors International, State of Florida, 2005-2010
Credentials
Education
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J.D., Columbia Law School, 1990
- Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- B.A., cum laude, Princeton University, 1987
Admissions
- Florida
- New York
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
News, Insights & Events
Michele is a contributor to GT's Financial Services Observer Blog 