Dori K. Bailey

Dori K. Bailey is a member at Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC in Syracuse, New York, and focuses on financial institutions regulatory law. She represents community and regional credit unions, commercial banks, thrift institutions, and other federally and state-chartered financial institutions. Bailey advises clients on complex regulatory requirements, compliance concerns, governance issues, transactions, and risk management. Her prior experience working as a banker also gives her practical insight into the business and operational needs of financial institutions.

Bailey earned her J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1999 and received her B.S., magna cum laude, from the State University of New York at Albany. While in law school, she served as research editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. Her education and banking background support a practice that combines legal analysis with an understanding of financial markets, institutional operations, and the regulatory framework governing banks and credit unions.

Bailey advises financial institutions on privacy and data security, suspicious activity reporting, money laundering, lender liability, insider lending, charter conversions, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory appeals, electronic funds transfers, disclosure requirements, and corporate governance. She also conducts fraud investigations involving bank, check, loan, and mortgage fraud and assists clients with regulatory filings, examinations, and communications with regulators. Her transactional work includes drafting and negotiating lending, technology, vendor, deposit, service, confidentiality, and governance agreements.

Dori K. Bailey received the 2015 American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers Annual Writing Competition Award for her scholarship on federal preemption and the financial crisis. She regularly writes and speaks on banking regulation, data privacy, fraud risk, regulatory examinations, and financial services developments. By combining regulatory knowledge, business experience, and a responsive approach to client needs, Bailey helps financial institutions address complex legal requirements while pursuing their operational and business goals.

Law Office Affiliations

• Member, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC
• Member, New York State Bar Association
• Member, Maryland State Bar Association
• Member, Bar Association of the District of Columbia

Licensed State

• New York
• Maryland
• District of Columbia

Education

• Cornell Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• State University of New York at Albany
  Bachelor of Science (BS)