General Counsel
AFSA

Philip is AFSA’s General Counsel, responsible for providing strategic legal guidance on a range of Association and public policy matters. He joined AFSA in 2017 as Vice President, Compliance Education, directing the Association’s compliance activities, including AFSA University. Philip also serves as the staff liaison for AFSA’s Law Committee, as well as the Operations and Regulatory Compliance Committee.

Philip brings significant consumer finance legal and compliance experience to AFSA, having served as in-house counsel at Toyota Motor Credit Corporation and Fannie Mae. At those companies, Philip worked closely with compliance staff supporting technology projects, legislative tracking, and vendor management. Philip’s private practice included work on manufactured housing, residential mortgage compliance, and consumer finance matters at McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC and Lotstein Buckman, LLP.

Philip is a member of the Virginia State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar. He was awarded his J.D. from the College of William and Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia, and earned a B.A. in Political Science from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.