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John Morland, General Counsel
Mr. Morland brings more than twenty-five years of legal and business management experience to the Trust. For more than ten years prior to joining the Trust, Mr. Morland served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Freddie Mac, where he headed a department of more than forty dealing with a broad variety of issues and disputes involving the multifamily real estate and mortgage industry. He was also responsible for a multimillion dollar outside counsel/vendor budget. Included in a docket averaging more than a thousand matters were multifamily workouts and foreclosures, sales of foreclosed real estate, vendor contract matters, lead paint and other environmental cases, title and mortgage insurance issues, mortgage-backed securities matters and a variety of general corporate issues. Mr. Morland also has had a broad spectrum of other corporate, government and law firm experience. He served as Associate General Counsel for Amtrak, where his responsibility included major construction projects, vendor contracting, computer service contracts, employment disputes, and train wreck litigation. Prior to Amtrak, Mr. Morland served as Senior Trial Counsel in the Civil Division/Commercial Branch of United States Department of Justice where he litigated, among other things, Ginnie Mae mortgage fraud and mortgage servicer bankruptcy matters. After a clerkship on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Mr. Morland also worked as an Associate at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson on general corporate matters, banking regulation, and railroad real estate valuation proceedings. Mr. Morland earned his law degree from George Washington University,
where he was a member of the Law Review and Order of the Coif, and he earned
a B.A. in economics from Vanderbilt University. |
John
Morland, Legal Counsel for the Trust, provides legal support and management
assistance to the NHT-E. Mr. Morland develops, negotiates, and drafts grant
requests, as well as related legal documents. He provides legal,
negotiation, and strategy support for affordable housing acquisition and
preservation projects. He also assists the President in developing products
and business opportunities that support the affordable housing preservation
mission of NHT-E.