Portrait of Nicole Cabañez

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Nicole Cabañez

Associate

Nicole represents consumers and workers challenging exploitative corporate practices.

About Nicole

Nicole is an associate attorney at Salahi PC, where she represents consumers and workers challenging exploitative corporate practices.

Before joining the firm, she was an enforcement attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she investigated regulated entities for suspected violations of consumer financial laws and brought enforcement actions against corporate wrongdoers. She began her career as a Skadden Fellow at the National Consumer Law Center, focusing on the intersection of immigrant justice and consumer finance.

Speaking and writing

  • “Cracking the Code: Understanding and Overcoming Language Barriers in Consumer Finance,” National Consumer Law Center, 2024 (author)
  • “Language Access in Mortgage Servicing Cases,” National Consumer Law Center Summer Mortgage Conference, 2024 (panelist)
  • “Barriers that New Americans Face in Accessing Financial Services and Products and Best Practices to Promote Access,” Financial Literacy and Education Committee Public Meeting, 2024 (panelist)

At a glance

Practice areas

ConsumerCivil RightsAdministrative Law

Education

Yale Law School, J.D., 2022
University of Pennsylvania, B.A., Sociology, 2017, magna cum laude

Bar admissions

California; Pennsylvania

Languages

Spanish

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