Rick Perr is co-chair of Kaufman Dolowich’s Financial Services & Institutions Practice Group. He focuses his practice in complex commercial litigation and professional liability defense. He has extensive experience defending directors and officers in claims arising from their corporate activity. Mr. Perr is a nationally recognized authority and lecturer on creditor’s rights, and defends creditors, law firms and agencies against individual and class action allegations involving federal and state consumer protection laws. This includes matters under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
Mr. Perr also advises entities and individuals on matters related to compliance in the credit and collection industry, including review, implementation and auditing of policies and procedures, especially in adherence with governmental regulatory bodies such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
He has served as a foreign policy intern for then United States Senator Al Gore (D-TN) and was the Chairman of the Burlington County Democratic Party. Mr. Perr also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Rutgers–Camden School of Law, teaching Election and Political Campaign Law, and has appeared in numerous national, regional and local publications and on broadcast media on the issues of politics and election law. He was also a contributing author for the twenty-volume encyclopedia Constitutions of the Countries of the World.
Mr. Perr has conducted broadcast appearances on WPVI-TV (Channel 6 – Philadelphia), CN8 (Comcast News Network – Philadelphia), NJN (New Jersey Network – Trenton), National Public Radio, and noted in articles including the Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, Newark Star Ledger, New York Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Rick Perr is the Co-Managing Partner of the Philadelphia Office and Co-Chair of the Financial Services Practice Group at Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck. He focuses his practice in complex commercial litigation and professional liability defense. He is a nationally recognized authority and lecturer on creditor’s rights, representing creditors, law firms and agencies against individual and class action allegations invoking federal and state consumer protection laws, including the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. He served as the President of ACA International in 2017-2018. He also serves on the Mid-Atlantic Collectors Association’s Board of Directors and has served on ACA International’s Board of Directors.
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