Anastasia Caton is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Hudson Cook. Anastasia's practice includes assisting national and state banks, savings associations, mortgage bankers, finance companies, and licensed lenders in the development and maintenance of consumer mortgage, automobile finance, and other credit programs. Anastasia also advises clients on various aspects of compliance with state and federal servicing and debt collection laws and the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. In addition, she assists clients in handling federal government agency (including CFPB, FTC, and DOJ) and state attorneys general investigations. On behalf of clients, she drafts amicus briefs for filing in consumer credit cases before federal appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
Anastasia is active in the American Bar Association's Consumer Financial Services Committee and currently serves as the Chair of the Young Lawyers Subcommittee. She has previously served as the Young Lawyer Liaison to the Debt Collection Practices and Bankruptcy Subcommittee and as the Young Lawyer Liaison to the National Institute on Consumer Financial Services Basics. She is also a member of the Receivables Management Association (formerly known as DBA International). Before joining Hudson Cook, Anastasia was a compliance attorney in the Regulatory Services Group at U.S. Bancorp in Washington, DC, and was a summer associate at a creditors' rights and commercial litigation law firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. During law school, she worked in Tulane's Domestic Violence Clinic, assisting victims of domestic violence in obtaining various legal protections.
Anastasia graduated with a degree in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and earned her J.D. from Tulane University Law School, where she was awarded magna cum laude graduation honors.