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WELCOME TO Tatman Legal

Tatman Legal is a full service, multi-state law firm offering services in Arizona (HUD Approved), California (FNMA and HUD Approved), Florida (HUD Approved), Oregon (HUD Approved), Texas (HUD Approved),and Washington (HUD Approved). Our clients include all types of financial institutions, including but not limited to banks, credit unions, component and national loan servicing companies, institutional and private investors, and commercial real-estate concerns.

Our Mission

WHY CHOOSE US

Our team’s mission is to provide the best available representation, timeline management and holistic portfolio management. Responsiveness counts. That’s what clients tell us, and that’s what we’re known for. It shows in everything we do: devising forward-thinking solutions to get the best results, respecting, and meeting clients’ service needs, anticipating the impact of national events and legal developments on clients’ interests, and taking action to keep our clients agile and informed.

Day to day, we strive to achieve results that exceed our clients’ expectations. We accomplish this through our commitment to add maximum value to their business models. Our core values include being accessible, efficient, responsive, and technologically sophisticated. We maintain a culture of compliance by promoting active involvement and leadership on the part of our firm and ourselves. We promote a workplace environment that sustains diversity and teamwork, while striving to improve and celebrate our team members’ accomplishments. We seek to grow organically as we offer career opportunities by sustaining growth based upon a foundation of solid financial strength. As we anticipate the growth of our practice in the years to come, we will always be mindful to stay true to our commitment of maintaining a boutique law firm group which provides our clients with the excellent service they come to expect from us at every level.

Multi-state in scope and practice, we can respond wherever and whenever our clients need us. We continually provide cost effective representation, while still maintaining low file to attorney ratios, in turn allowing for the highest levels of attorney oversight and care. Our team of professionals consistently explores and advises on loss mitigation solutions reducing losses and saving significant time for our clients and homeowners. The Firm’s lawyers have decades of experience in bankruptcy, mortgage default and real estate matters.

FORWARD THINKING SOLUTIONS

Tatman Legal offers forward-thinking solutions that proactively address the evolving legal and financial landscapes, ensuring our clients stay ahead of emerging challenges and opportunities.

PROVEN TRACK RECORD

Tatman Legal boasts a proven track record of delivering successful outcomes for our clients, solidifying our reputation as a trusted leader in legal services.

WHITE GLOVE SERVICE

At Tatman Legal, we pride ourselves on providing white-glove service, offering personalized attention and tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of each client with the utmost care and precision.

MULTI-STATE COVERAGE

Tatman Legal offers comprehensive multi-state coverage, seamlessly navigating the legal intricacies across Arizona, California, Florida, Oregon, Texas, and Washington to provide consistent, high-quality legal support to our clients.

CLIENT-CENTRIC APPROACH

Tatman Legal is dedicated to client-centric representation, ensuring that every strategy and solution is tailored to align with our clients’ specific goals and priorities for maximum satisfaction and success.

MEET THE TEAM

JASON TATMAN

PRESIDENT/LEAD COUNSEL

PRESIDENT/LEAD COUNSEL

JASON TATMAN

Jason is President and Lead Counsel at Tatman Legal. In this role, Jason leads operations and across the firm’s multi-state platform including overseeing all aspects of services that include: mortgage default, bankruptcy, litigation, commercial and residential real-estate transaction support, multi-state evictions, regulatory compliance, and homeowners’ association issues. Under Jason’s leadership, the firm’s signature white-glove service has become a hallmark of its reputation. The firm is proud to offer industry leading performance metrics across a broad spectrum of client requirements, and attributes this accountability as a fundamental key to the firm’s success. Jason is a San Diego native and Graduate of San Diego State University and California Western School of Law.

DANIEL CHASE

CONTROLLER

RHONDA RORIE

A.V.P. TRUSTEE SALES

BARON TENNELLE

LEAD PARALEGAL

CINDI STEWART

DEED-IN-LIEU SPECIALIST

ZIHLA SALINAS

MARKETING DIRECTOR

MARKETING DIRECTOR

ZIHLA SALINAS

Zihla Salinas is an award-winning marketing executive with experience spanning 20 years across a variety of businesses. She has spent her career running formidable marketing agencies, and working on brands such as Netflix, Warner Brothers, Kraft, Bank of America, Charles Schwab, Disney, HBO, Apple and Nestlé. Zihla served as the Global CMO of ENGINE, a full-service media and marketing services company. In this role, she oversaw the organization’s global brand identity as well as the integrated media, strategy and creative capabilities in the U.S. Zihla came to ENGINE from DonerLA where she launched the West Coast office, driving double and triple digit growth year over year. She was named 40 under 40 by DM News and has created highly acclaimed work that has been recognized by Cannes Lions, OneShow and The Webbys, to name a few.

DEED-IN-LIEU SPECIALIST

CINDI STEWART

Cindi has been a California Trustee Sale Officer since 1990. She is a highly experienced professional and has processed foreclosures from beginning to the end in the state of CA. Cindi joined the Tatman Legal team in 2019 and has emerged as the firm’s leading expert in handling Deed-in-Lieu of foreclosures across our multi-state portfolio. From title assessment to document drafting, and ultimately recording, Cindi adeptly works with our clients and seamlessly manages the process from start to finish.

LEAD PARALEGAL

BARON TENNELLE

Baron started his legal career in lead generation for a product liability firm but wanted to become more involved with the process and progress of the cases. He decided to become a certified paralegal in 2016. His primary focus was working on high volume mass tort litigation. While he enjoyed the volume, there was still something missing. He realized there was no “uniqueness” to the cases as they were all treated the same. Mr. Tennelle joined Tatman Legal in 2019 and now fully enjoys working closely with each client on their unique cases and primarily handles all types of evictions, judicial foreclosures and bankruptcies.

A.V.P. TRUSTEE SALES

RHONDA RORIE

Rhonda has been with Tatman Legal for a little over 8 years however she has been in the industry for 33 years. She leads the processing of Non-Judicial Foreclosures for the states of AZ, CA, ID, OR, WA and TX. She also processes all Judicial foreclosures in the state of FL, and for CA, works on HOA Non-Judicial foreclosures and HUD Reverse Mortgage foreclosures. Rhonda is a pivotal member of the Tatman Legal team as she is a critical liaison for in-house counsel, and leads the staff with training and compliance.

CONTROLLER

DANIEL CHASE

Dan is the firm’s controller and leads client billing and vendor payments. He is known for his prompt replies and incredible attention to detail. Dan has over 30 years of financial/ accounting experience in the insurance industry and law practice field as a CFO and Controller. He has spent most of his life in the San Diego area. He is a big sports fan and enjoys attending San Diego Padres and San Diego State games.

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