FTC’s Preservation of Consumers’ Claims and Defenses Rule (aka the “Holder Rule”)

Gregory S. Reichenbach is a trial attorney representing primarily poor and working-class Ohio consumers. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Toledo, College of Law, in 2004. He focuses on litigation of individual and class claims against car dealers, financial institutions, and debt collectors, focusing on repossessions, used car sales fraud, and unfair debt collection. He has written articles for the public and regularly presents at trainings for Ohio attorneys on topics including litigating consumer claims and defending collection suits.  He was the 2026 recipient of the Ohio Access to Justice Foundation’s Elam Pro Bono award for his work including training legal aid attorneys.

A. Lorraine Weekes is a consumer protection attorney at Kneupper & Covey PC whose practice includes both class actions and individual litigation and arbitration proceedings on behalf of consumers ripped off by banks, solar lenders and installers, and other miscreant business. She graduated from Stanford Law School in 2016.