Erica J. Stutman is a member of the firm’s Litigation, Investigations, and Trials Practice Group. She concentrates her practice on commercial litigation. She has represented individuals and a wide range of businesses, including financial institutions, real estate companies, insurance companies, small businesses, and others. Erica has experience in a variety of commercial litigation matters, including lender liability claims regarding mortgage practices and foreclosure, disagreements among business partners, real estate title disputes, lien priority challenges, contract disputes, fraud actions, and negligence claims. Erica has worked on numerous cases in the financial services field, where she has defended national institutions in actions involving claims of alleged wrongful foreclosure, loan servicing errors, breach of loan modification agreements, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA), and Ponzi schemes. She earned both her Juris Doctor (J.D.) and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) magna cum laude from Northwestern University.