Law Firm Adds Appellate Heavyweight in CFPB Leadership Fight

A California debt collection law firm has hired one of the appellate bar’s biggest names to handle its Supreme Court challenge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s constitutionality.

Kannon Shanmugam of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP will lead Seila Law LLC’s case at the Supreme Court level, according to court filings June 7. Shanmugam declined to comment on June 10.

Seila Law LLC on June 7 asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to stay a civil investigative demand the CFPB wants to enforce after the appellate panel ruled the bureau’s single-director leadership structure is ...