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62 FEI LAM Partner, Stern, Lavinthal & Frankenberg, LLC flam@sternlav.com 973.797.1100 Fei Lam is the newest Partner of Stern, Lavinthal & Frankenberg LLC (SLF), a full- service default firm with an expanding footprint in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. With over 20 years of management default- related experience, Fei is currently spearheading the firm's ever-growing expansion into New York. While balancing career and home, Fei has also found time in her busy schedule to also pay homage to her Asian heritage. Over the past 10 years, she has been providing pro bono legal services to the Chinese Heritage School of New Jersey (CHSNJ) and currently sits on its board. CHSNJ is a nonprofit organization with a mission to offer Chinese language education to students of any race and ethnic origin. Its goals are to provide a nonpolitical and non-religious- learning environment to deepen students' interest in the Chinese language and culture, consistent with the need for diversity and inclusion of all races and cultures. Fei has served on the American Mortgage Diversity Council (AMDC) and the AMDC Mortgage Banking Relations Subcommittee mentoring program with the goal of achieving more diversity in the mortgage banking industry. JACLYN PALAZZOLO Partner, ALAW jpalazzolo@albertellilaw.com 813.221.4743 Jaclyn Palazzolo is a Partner with ALAW, overseeing the Attorney Closing Services Division. Jaclyn is a licensed Florida Attorney, based out of the firm's headquarters in Tampa, Florida, and has been with the company for six years. She has extensive experience managing a national panel of attorneys and staff handling thousands of transactions a month. Currently, Jaclyn manages the nationwide title and settlement services for the firm, including residential purchase, attorney closings services, refinances, REO transactions, and commercial work. Prior to joining the firm, Jaclyn worked as the managing title attorney for a statewide title and settlement company while also practicing in foreclosure, guardianship, and estate planning. She's a born-and-raised Floridian who completed her undergraduate degree at Florida State University, where she received a dual Bachelor's degree in political science and criminology. She earned her Juris Doctorate from Stetson University College of Law. Top Women of Law CAMILLE R. HAWK Partner/Attorney, Walentine O'Toole, LLP chawk@walentineotoole.com 402.330.6300 Camille Hawk, one of the region's leading creditors' rights attorneys, offers financial institutions first-rate representation in the areas of real estate, lending law, and default services including lending regulations, bankruptcy, title issues, foreclosure, loss mitigation, litigation, closings, eviction, and collections. She is licensed in Nebraska and Iowa and has over 27 years' experience working with creditors. Camille has been published regionally and nationwide. She has presented seminars for NBI, Lorman, State Bar Associations, and other industry organizations. Some of her presentation topics include triaging files after moratorium holds, foreclosure gap seminars, ongoing CFPB changes, agricultural lending, and foreclosure pitfalls. She also has helped draft and pass several pieces of creditors' rights legislation related to manufactured homes, lines of credit, HOA and COA statutes, lien releases, Trustees' powers, and post foreclosure funds disbursement requirements. Believing it is important to give back, Camille is active in professional organizations and serves on various community boards. She is the current Chair of the NSBA Education committee, the current Secretary of the NSBA Bankruptcy section and the NSBA Bank Attorneys section, a past Chair of the Bank Attorneys section, and a NSBA House of Delegates member.