Tomio Buck Narita

Tomio is a founding partner of Simmonds & Narita LLP, a San Francisco business litigation law firm which specializes in the defense of consumer financial services litigation. He regularly defends clients against claims arising under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Rosenthal Act (California Civil Code section 1788), and the California Unfair Competition Act, section 17200 of the California Business & Professions Code. Tomio has been lead counsel in defending scores of class actions and representative actions in state and federal courts. He frequently defends claims for breach of contract, fraud, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, malicious prosecution and various commercial torts. Tomio has significant trial experience in jury and bench trials in courts throughout California, as well as in arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association. He is a member of the Bar of the State of California, and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Second, Third and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals and all of the District Courts of California. While his practice is focused in California, he has represented clients as lead counsel or co-counsel in other states across the country, including Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Tomio has often been an invited speaker at a number of collection industry events, discussing issues arising under the FCRA and FDCPA. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Vice Chair, Debt Collection Practices and Bankruptcy Subcommittee of Consumer Financial Services Committee), ACA International (Chair of the MAP Committee, 2009-10), the National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys (Associate Member; Member of the Amicus Committee), and the Bar Association of San Francisco.