The Wolf Firm, A Law Corporation, is pleased to announce that Kayo Manson-Tompkins has been appointed as the managing attorney of its Eviction Department. Ms. Manson-Tompkins, who formerly was an attorney with a prominent real estate/business litigation law firm based in southern California, has spent the majority of her 25 years in practice handling residential civil litigation, with particular emphasis on complex evictions, judicial foreclosures and mobile home foreclosures. Ms. Tompkins also has substantial experience handling surplus funds, deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure and bankruptcies.
Ms. Manson-Tompkins has been frequently called upon to speak at local and national mortgage industry events. For example, she has been a speaker at several REOMAC (REO Managers Association of California) and United Trustees Association (UTA) conferences, a faculty speaker for the National Business Institute (NBI) and Lorman Education Services on residential servicing issues, and a panelist and lead facilitator for the USFN at its Regional and National Loan Management and Servicing Seminars.
Ms. Manson-Tompkins earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Los Angeles and her Juris Doctorate degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She was admitted to the California State Bar in 1988 and is a member of the Orange County Bar Association. She is a past Chair of the REO/Evictions Committee of the USFN and helped create and develop the Eviction Timelines Matrix which was first published in February 2002. She was also on the USFN sub-committee that created and developed the Manufactured Homes Desk Guide, State-by-State, which was first published in January 2004. She has also published various articles for the USFN Report, the USFN National Mortgage Service Directory, the USFN e-update and the UTA Quarterly Newsletter.
Ms. Manson-Tompkins can be contacted by email at kayo.manson-tompkins@wolffirm.com or directly at (949) 480-1643.