December 1, 2004 -

USFN - America's Mortgage Banking Attorneys Installs Brian J. Spero as President.

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP partner Brian J. Spero was recently installed to a two-year term as President of the USFN – America’s Mortgage Banking Attorneys. The USFN is a national non-profit association of law firms and trustee companies that represent mortgage lenders in each of the 50 states. Membership in the USFN is strictly limited to only those attorneys meeting high qualifications and standards in representing national mortgage lenders in their foreclosure, bankruptcy and related creditors' rights matters. Currently, the USFN has 97 member law firms representing over 1500 attorneys, as well as 3 trustee member firms, and 45 associate member firms. Partridge Snow & Hahn is a founding member of the USFN for Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Mr. Spero is a member of Partridge Snow & Hahn’s executive management committee and co-chair of the Firm’s Creditors’ Rights Practice Group. He has over 20 years of experience in providing counsel to financial institutions and mortgage lenders with respect to commercial workouts, foreclosures, bankruptcies and litigation; and represents a large number of regional and national creditors, lending institutions, banks and mortgage companies. Mr. Spero has lectured and written extensively on creditors’ rights issues and has served on commercial default servicing panels for the Mortgage Bankers Association America. He is a member of the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Bar Associations, and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Mr. Spero received his J.D., cum laude, from Boston College Law School and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Colgate University.