Parsons Behle & Latimer

Mr. Billings is “Of Counsel" to the firm. His extensive experience in creating financial institutions has made him on of the country’s experts in Industrial Banks and non-bank banks.

Capabilities

Biography

Thomas Billings has been practicing law since 1976. Mr. Billings concentrates his practice on banking and financial institutions, including corporate reorganizations, real estate, and commercial transactions, working with state and local governments including legislative matters, commercial litigation, real estate development, and outdoor advertising.

Mr. Billings is special counsel for a number of FDIC insured institutions in the state of Utah and serves as Utah counsel for a large number of national lenders with respect to consumer finance issues.

Accomplishments

Academic

S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah (J.D., 1976)

Executive Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Law

Adjunct Professor of Law

Brown University (A.B., with honors, 1973)

Professional

Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of Banking/Finance Law and Financial Services Regulation; Salt Lake City Lawyer of the Year, Banking & Finance Law, 2022

Utah Business Magazine's Legal Elite (Banking/Financial Law) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2016

Utah Business Magazine Outstanding Director of the Year 2009

Mountain States Super Lawyers, banking category

Associations

Professional

Member of the Park City Bar Association (past President)

Utah State Bar Character and Fitness Committee (past Chair)

Member of the Executive Committee on Consumer Finance and the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bar Association (former Chair of the Consumer Litigation Sub-committee)

Board of Directors of the American Judicature Society

Member of the Governing Committee of the Conference on Consumer Finance Law

Community

Member, Board of Directors, GE Capital Bank

Member, Board of Directors, Optum Bank

President of the Brown Club of Utah

Member of the Park City Rotary and the Park City Chamber of Commerce

National Ability Center in Park City, Utah (past President)

Former Chair of the Board of Directors of the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah

Insights

Parsons Behle & Latimer attorneys recognized by Best Lawyers in America

"Best Lawyers" Ranks 56 Parsons Attorneys as Top in Intermountain West

Parsons Behle & Latimer Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers in America™. Fifty attorneys recognized: nine as “Lawyer of the Year,” five as “Ones to Watch”

Super Lawyers Names 26 Parsons Behle & Latimer Attorneys

Credentials

Licensed

Utah

Education

University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law