John L. Ropiequet

Partner

Mr. Ropiequet is a partner in the litigation department of Arnstein & Lehr LLP, where he has practiced for more than 30 years, and is co-chair of its Consumer Financial Services Group . He has a civil litigation practice at both the trial and the appellate levels, including a substantial amount of experience handling alternate dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation. His practice is nationwide in scope. With trial experience that runs the gamut from medical malpractice cases to will contests, he currently devotes a significant amount of his time to consumer credit class actions and commercial disputes. Mr. Ropiequet also has substantial experience in other complex litigation, including antitrust, toxic tort, securities fraud, real estate and Superfund litigation.

Professional Activities and Achievements

He is pro bono director for the American Bar Association Business Law Section Consumer Financial Services Committee and is former chair of the CBA’s Committee on Medical-Legal Relations and its Committee on Hospital and Healthcare Law, and of the American Bar Association Litigation Section Committee on Corporate Counsel, Subcommittee on Budgeting for Litigation. He is a member of the Governing Committee of the Conference on Consumer Finance Law. He is also a member of the Illinois State Bar Association. He is former president of United Way of the North Shore, and of Family Counseling Service of Evanston and Skokie Valley, former national co-chair of the Law School Fund at Northwestern University, and a former member of the board of advisors to the National Alumni Schools Committee of Johns Hopkins University.

Recent Publications and Lectures

Mr. Ropiequet has spoken and written frequently on issues involving consumer finance, evidentiary privilege, legal ethics, and other matters. Most recently, he lectured on fair lending and internal investigations to the Conference on Consumer Finance Law. He is a contributing editor to Rohner & Miller’s Truth in Lending on private remedies for TILA violations, co-editor of the Annual Survey on consumer finance law in The Business Lawyer, and published a chapter on Illinois certificate of title law by the American Bar Association in its Compendium of State Certificate of Title Laws, which collects analyses of the certificate of title laws for all 50 states and compares current laws with the provisions of the Uniform Certificate of Title Act drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. His many writings include an article on “Fair Lending Developments: the End of Discretionary Pricing?” which appeared in The Business Lawyer, articles on the Dodd-Frank Act, and a chapter on environmental litigation in the IICLE handbook on environmental law.

Education

Northwestern University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1972)
Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 1969)

Bar Admissions

State of Illinois
U.S. District Courts, Central and Northern Districts of Illinois and Eastern District of Wisconsin
U.S. Claims Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and Eleventh Circuits
U.S. Supreme Court