Rodney D. Martin has counseled financial institutions for over 25 years on banking and consumer compliance issues. He regularly advises clients regarding bank regulatory issues involving mergers, acquisitions, and the expansion of banking activities, as well as fair lending, financial privacy, Bank Secrecy Act, and other compliance matters. He is Chair of the Firm's Financial Services Group and Co-chair of the Firm's Privacy and Information Security Task Force. In addition, he is the Firm's Diversity Partner.

Representative Experience

• Represented bank in landmark settlement of lawsuit by the United States Department of Justice alleging redlining in violation of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act
• Represented numerous banks before federal bank regulatory agencies against claims of lending discrimination resulting in conclusion that no discriminatory practices had occurred and no referral to the Department of Justice was necessary
• Represented clients in responding to information security breaches involving consumers in multiple states
• Represented company in Sarbanes Oxley Whistle-blower investigation by the Department of Labor resulting in a dismissal of the complaint
• Represented the Michigan Bankers Association in connection with its consumer forms program
• Conducted investigation of complicated embezzlement scheme by senior bank officer resulting in successful criminal prosecution

Honors and Awards

• Best Lawyers in America, Banking Law, 1995-2011
• Managing and Associate Editor, Michigan Law Review, Volumes 78 and 77, 1979-80
• Recipient, Jason L. Honigman Award, 1980; Phi Beta Kappa
  

Bar Associations

Teaching and Lecturing

• Speaker at numerous seminars for bankers and other financial institutions on consumer regulation, fair lending, credit reform, and privacy
• Co-producer of Ethics in View on West Michigan Public Television. Wrote and produced seven, hour-long programs: “Ethics and the Media,” “Ethics in Political Campaigns,” “The Ethics of Life and Death,” “Ethics and the Environment,” “Ethics in the Workplace,” “To Tell the Truth,” and “Ethics in Education.” The series received the Wade F. McCree Award for the Advancement of Justice from the State Bar of Michigan

Publications

• "GLB Privacy Notices in Retail Installment Transactions," in Michigan Banker
• “Plain English in Michigan Bankers Association Forms,” Michigan Bar Journal
• “The Applicability of Gramm-Leach-Bliley's Privacy Requirements to ‘Non-Financial Financial Institutions,’” in The Michigan Business Law Journal
• Principal Author, Michigan Lending Manual, published by the Michigan Bankers Association

• Privacy and Information Security In the News -- Week of September 5, 2006
• Human Resources Alert

Community Affiliations

• Boy Scouts of America, Gerald R. Ford Council
  Kent District Program Chair 2002-2006
  
• Comprehensive Therapy Centers
  President of the Board
  
• Youth Development, Inc.
  Board Member, Economic Club of Grand Rapids
  

News

• 62 Warner Norcross Attorneys Rated Best Lawyers in America
• Warner Norcross Selects Book on Deaf Culture for Second in One Book, One Firm Series