Brian Forbes is a partner in the financial institutions and services litigation group at K&L Gates. Based in the firm’s Boston office, Brian regularly represents banking, mortgage lending and consumer financial services institutions in consumer class actions and individual litigation matters in federal and state courts throughout the United States. These actions typically concern challenges under federal statutes, including the federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, the Truth in Lending Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, as well as state unfair and deceptive acts and practices statutes, and common law claims. Brian also has extensive experience in complex commercial litigation, including trials and appellate advocacy.
Brian has written and spoken extensively on financial services litigation and class actions and he is a co-author of multiple chapters in the treatise Defense of Class Action Litigation in Federal Court (Bloomberg Law 2018). Prior to joining K&L Gates, Brian served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Judith Gail Dein, United States District Court, District of Massachusetts, 2000-2001, and as Law Clerk to the Justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, 1999-2000.
