Megan B.Poetzel

Jenner & Block Partners Jeremy Creelan, Megan Poetzel, Laurel Loomis Rimon, and Michael Ross, and Associate Rupali Srivastava authored an analysis in the New York Law Journal examining the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape for prediction markets and what it means for fintech companies and their counsel.

Law360 has selected seven Jenner & Block partners to serve on the publication’s 2026 editorial advisory boards. As board members, they will provide feedback on Law360's coverage across practice areas and offer insights to help guide future content direction. Board members also serve as a resource for Law360 reporters seeking expert analysis and commentary.

In a recent article for the New York Law Journal, Partners Jeremy Creelan, Laurel Loomis Rimon, Michael Ross, and Megan Poetzel, examine New York's sweeping expansion of consumer protection law in 2026.

Partners Jeremy Creelan, Laurel Loomis Rimon, Megan Poetzel, Michael Ross and Kayvan Sadeghi will provide an in-depth review of significant litigation trends and topics during the past year and discuss critical factors likely to shape litigation risk in the year ahead at a gathering entitled “2025 Fintech Business Litigation Review: Cool Trends in a Hot Market” on January 15, 2026.

Jenner & Block Partners Megan B. Poetzel and Alison I. Stein have been named Co-Chairs of the firm's pro bono program. 

On November 15, Jenner & Block received the Iranian American Bar Association's (IABA) Pro Bono Award. The IABA presents its Pro Bono Award annually to recognize a law firm that has provided outstanding pro bono legal representation.

Thanks to the dedication of Jenner & Block Partners Wade Thomson, Megan Poetzel, and Hope Tone-O’Keefe, Associate Michael Pearson, and former associates Meg Hlousek and Nathaniel Schetter, alongside their partnership with the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), Jaime Jose Hernandez Froilan, his wife Genesis, and their daughter Leia were granted asylum in the United States in 2025.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a federal agency that was founded in 2010, after the United States went through a recession linked to abuses in the origination and sale of residential mortgage loans. The agency generally has enforcement, supervision, and rulemaking authority with respect to a variety of federal statutes that apply to offerors of consumer financial products (bank and nonbank alike), such as personal loans, credit cards, and checking and savings accounts. Under

Partner Megan Poetzel is recognized for her excellent client service in BTI’s 2024 independent survey of top legal decision-makers. “Client Service All-Stars” like Megan are described as being savvy, one step ahead, fully invested in their clients, practical, and deeply knowledgeable about their clients’ business and culture.

In their article for Law360, Partners Laurel Loomis Rimon, Megan Poetzel, Jeremy Creelan, and Associate Farryal Siddiqui discuss the exponential growth in consumer financial products driven by bank-fintech partnerships and the newfound risks related to the handling of consumer complaints that have emerged as a result.

Point-of-sale financing arrangements payable in four or fewer interest-free installments, known as buy now, pay later (BNPL) arrangements, have soared since their initial breakthrough during the pandemic.[1]Unlike conventional point-of-sale loans, BNPL payment arrangements such as these are not subject to certain traditional consumer financial protection regulations.[2]Accordingly, first movers—typically Fintech ventures—adhered to the BNPL installment structure despite lower profit ceilings tha

Join Jenner & Block Partners Jeremy Creelan, Megan Poetzel, and Laurel Loomis Rimon in the third CLE webinar in our series on Bank-Fintech Partnerships. Topics covered will include:

Partners Annie Kastanek, Anna Meresidis, and Megan Poetzel have been selected as “2024 Notable Women in Law” by Crain’s Chicago Business. This special feature celebrates women lawyers for “steering multibillion-dollar deals, earning high-dollar awards and securing outcomes that can't be measured in money.” 

The increasing use of earned wage access (“EWA”) by workers in the United States and around the world has helped to bring financial flexibility to many previously constrained by the employer-selected timing of when paychecks are issued.[1]Even critics of some forms of EWA cannot deny its value as a tool that can ease cashflow problems faced by low-wage workers. But regulatory ambiguity has caused uncertainty for EWA products as the industry awaits promised further guidance from the CFPB and watc

Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued its long-awaited proposed rule to implement Section 1033 of the 2010 Consumer Financial Protection Act, which has come to be known as the “open banking” provision.[1]In a nutshell, the CFPB’s Personal Financial Data Rights rule would require “data providers” –financial institutions, card issuers, digital wallets, and any other consumer-facing entity that holds consumer financial data – to share a consumer’s financial data with authorized

On September 15, in partnership with client JPMorgan Chase, Jenner & Block hosted a Lunch & Learn pro bono event that featured a presentation from the National Immigrant Justice Center.

On August 3, the Chicago Immigration Court granted asylum to a pro bono client who had been persecuted in his home country of Iran due to his political activity protesting the current ruling regime and for his conversion to Christianity.

In this edition of Jenner & Block’s Consumer Finance Observer (CFO), our lawyers from a broad range of practice areas provide analysis of key issues currently at the forefront of consumer finance law and policy.In this issue, you will find analysis and updates on:

The regulation and enforcement of financial technology (Fintech) remains in sharp focus for California’s consumer finance regulator, the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI), as it moves into its second year of operation. This Alert provides a short overview of the DFPI’s origins, a comparison of the DFPI’s stated priorities with its regulatory activities in its inaugural year, and an analysis of recent enforcement actions relevant to Fintech.