Kirk D. Jensen
Associate

Buckley Kolar LLP
1250 24th Street, N.W., Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20037
(202) 349-8048
(202) 349-8080 (fax)

Practice

Kirk Jensen is an associate at Buckley Kolar LLP. Mr. Jensen’s practice focuses on representing the financial services industry in an array of litigation and regulatory matters. In particular, Mr. Jensen represents clients in litigation and in regulatory and compliance matters arising under federal and state laws relating to consumer and commercial financial services, including laws governing mortgage lending and secondary market transactions, unsecured and secured credit, state licensing, credit card lending, consumer privacy and data security, debt collection, electronic financial transactions, negotiable instruments, anti-money laundering, financial institution regulation, credit reporting and credit discrimination. Mr. Jensen is also a nationally recognized expert in consumer arbitration issues.

Mr. Jensen has represented a wide variety of financial services clients, including mortgage companies, national banks, federal savings banks, bank holding companies, finance companies, credit card issuers, credit unions, pay-day lenders, debt collection companies and securities broker-dealers.

Professional Activities

Mr. Jensen is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the North Carolina State Bar, and the Utah State Bar (voluntarily inactive), as well as various committees of the Business Law and Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Sections of the American Bar Association.

Publications/Presentations

Mr. Jensen is a frequent commentator on issues relating to the retail financial services industry. His published articles include the following:

• "Can Financial Institutions Be Required to Arbitrate on a Class-Wide Basis Notwithstanding Provisions That Prohibit Class Arbitration?," 122 Banking Law Journal 328 (2005);
• "How to Draft an Unenforceable Arbitration Agreement and Increase Your Client’s Risk of Class Arbitration," Notes Bearing Interest, Vol. 26, No. 3, at 5 (Jan. 2005), reprinted (as updated) in Dispute Resolution, Vol. 19, No. 2, at 8 (Feb. 2005);
• "Arbitration and Unconscionability," 19 Georgia State University Law Review 761 (2003) (with Eric J. Mogilnicki);
• "Green Tree v. Bazzle: Can Arbitration Agreements Expressly Preclude Class-Wide Arbitration?," Consumer Financial Services Law Report, July 30, 2003 (with Eric J. Mogilnicki);
• "Credit Card Disclosures: The Next Front in the Great Preemption War," Consumer Financial Services Law Report, July 31, 2002, at 3 (with Gregory A. Baer); and
• "Yield Spread Premiums: HUD’s Clarification and Lingering Concerns," 119 Banking Law Journal 129 (2002) (with Manley Williams).

Professional Experience

Before joining Buckley Kolar, Mr. Jensen was an associate with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC in Charlotte, North Carolina. Prior to that, he was an associate in the Washington office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Before joining Wilmer Cutler, Mr. Jensen served as a law clerk to the Honorable Deanell Reece Tacha, Chief Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Education

J.D., Duke University School of Law, 2000 (Order of the Coif; Research Editor, Duke Law Journal; J. Paul Coie Scholar)
B.A., Brigham Young University, 1995 (cum laude, nominated to Phi Kappa Phi)