Meet Jay

Jay French is the Chief Operating Officer for Padgett Law Group (PLG). PLG is a full-service creditors’ rights law firm with GSE compliant practices in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Ohio and Arkansas. The firm’s practice offers exclusive representation to institutional clients such as lenders, mortgage servicers, credit unions, banks, hedge funds, investors and other financial services industry stakeholders.

Jay joined PLG in 2018. He previously held senior leadership or consulting roles in six other firms, including two in the creditors’ rights legal industry. Jay’s experience includes over fifteen years of leading large teams (40 to 850+ team members in size). Jay enjoys sports, exercising, genealogy, and spending time with his family.
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1988 Earned m.b.a.
mercer university

People, Places, and Presentations

#PadgettPeople are regular presenters at live industry events, trade association conferences, as well as local and state bar trainings. PLG attorneys also regularly lead firm-hosted webinars and conduct on-site trainings for clients where our leaders guide process-level and management-track mortgage servicing professionals in groups ranging from six to 100+ staff members. Contact us today to coordinate an onsite PLG training event for your team. ​