DIRECTING ATTORNEYS

The Credit & Banking Law Group, P.A. is an interstate law partnership of professional associations focusing on federal consumer and banking law.

Credentials of our managing attorneys are listed below:

Florida Managing Partner.  Juris Doctor degree from University of Miami 1974, Bachelors degree in English from University of Miami 1971. Harvey Scholl, Esq. has been engaged in the private practice of law in the state of Florida since 1974, with a primary focus on secured  transactions involving real estate, mortgage financing and banking law.  Representative clients over the years have included developers, mortgage and real estate brokers, banks and other mortgage lenders as well as buyers and sellers of residential and commercial real estate.  Mr. Scholl is an issuing agent for Old Republic National Title Insurance Company, past director of the Florida Association of Mortgage Brokers and holder of an active Florida Real Estate Broker’s license since 1972.  During the real estate boom of the nineties, Mr. Scholl founded and ran a national document preparation service bureau to which lenders outsourced preparation of more than ten thousand mortgage loan closing packages.  Additionally, Mr. Scholl formed a captive title insurance company in partnership with a major south Florida homebuilder, handling real estate closings from five offices spanning both Florida coasts.  Mr. Scholl combines his years of business experience together with an understanding of the law to assist clients with debt related issues in the current downturned economy.

New York, New Jersey, Texas, Managing Partner, Juris Doctor, Seton Hall University School of Law 1985, BA English Writing/History, Rider University 1982 (Magna Cum Laude). Member of the NY, NJ, DC, TX, MO, HI & MI Bars. Member of all U.S. District Courts in all states noted above, Member U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Claims Court, U.S. Court of International Trade.  Eighteen (18) years experience in banking litigation/collection, regulatory matters, FCRA, FDCPA, workouts, loan origination, loan documentation and closings. Closed as counsel and/or originated in excess of $7 Billion in loans (residential, commercial, asset based, development, conduit) since 1985. Member of the Associate Board of Director of United Jersey Bank, N.A. (“UJB”) 1992-1994 (now Fleet Bank). In House Counsel for National Bank, 1999-2002. Outside SBA Closing Counsel for Prestige Financial Corp. (now Commerce Bank N.A.) from 1994-1996. Certified Environmental Auditor. Licensed Mortgage Broker (FL) 1992-present. Licensed Private Investigator (FL), 1992-present. Major, United States Army Judge Advocate Generals Corps (1992). Trial Counsel. Contract Attorney.