Freeman Means Business

Meade Hartfield has represented clients nationwide in a variety of industries, including financial services, drug and medical device, automotive, aviation, industrial equipment, insurance, and environmental. Her financial services practice includes representing financial institutions, auto-finance lenders and mortgage companies in defensive litigation matters throughout the country, including alleged violations of TCPA, TILA, FCRA, FDCPA and state deceptive trade practices laws. She also spearheads regulatory compliance services in response to pending or new legislation.

Meade has been admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. She is an active member of the Defense Research Institute (DRI), where she serves as Seminar Chair of the Women in the Law Committee, as well as the Women in the Law Liaison to the International Law Committee and the Automotive Section of the Product Liability Committee. Meade also is serving as the inaugural chair of Women in the Law Committee for the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association.

Notable Matters

• Counsel for national mortgage servicers in their multi-state residential mortgage litigation
• Counsel for captive auto-finance lender in litigation involving consumer protection statutes and dealer finance
• Counsel in successful defense of mortgage services provider in cases involving alleged RESPA, TCPA, FDCPA, TILA, FCRA, wrongful foreclosure and other state law violations
• Counsel in successful representation and summary judgment monetary award in favor of financial services provider in invoice factoring case
• Counsel in successful defense of major automotive manufacturers in product liability and warranty cases