Relman Colfax is at the forefront of the legal battle against discriminatory lending practices, working on behalf of individuals, organizations, and municipalities across the nation. The firm regularly litigates landmark lending cases involving allegations of redlining (denying minority communities access to credit) and reverse redlining (targeting minority individuals and communities with predatory lending products). The firm’s experience and expertise in large-scale, complex discovery, utilizing statistics, geo-mapping technology, and other innovative litigation techniques, enables the firm to affirmatively prove that lenders and creditors—including purveyors of mortgages, and automobile and student loans, to name a few—discriminate against individuals and/or communities on the basis of race, national origin, gender, religion, and disability, in violation of the Fair Housing Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, and state and local anti-discrimination and consumer protection statutes.
