SOUTHFIELD, MI - June 2, 2008 - Holli Targan, a partner with the Southfield office of Michigan-based law firm Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, P.C., has been elected President-elect of the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA).  She will serve a one-year term commencing July 2008.  Jaffe CEO Richard Zussman made the announcement.

The ETA, based in Washington D.C., is the premier trade association representing the payments business.  It serves businesses offering payment processing services to merchants through education, advocacy and the exchange of information.  The ETA has over 500 member companies throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe, including banks, credit and gift card processors, and independent sales organizations.

Ms. Targan is Chairperson of Jaffe's Finance Law Group and concentrates her legal practice in the areas of credit and debit card processing, stored value, merchant cash advance, and payment systems law.

She is a 1982 graduate of James Madison College and a 1985 cum laude graduate of the Wayne State University Law School where she served as associate editor of the Wayne Law Review.

A frequent speaker and published author, she also is a founder and Immediate Past President of Women Networking in Electronic Transactions (W.net), a non-profit national association of women in the electronics transactions industry.

Michigan-based Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss is recognized thoughout the nation as a relationship-based, highly qualified, full-service business law firm.  With an outstanding reputation for providing sophisticated legal services and counsel to businesses of all sizes, family-owned enterprises, individuals and entrepreneurs, Jaffe has more than 100 attorneys in its Southfield, Detroit and Ann Arbor offices.

Among the Firm's practice areas are appellate, aviation, corporate, criminal, e-commerce, electronic banking, employee benefits, environmental, estate planning, family law, financial services, insolvency & reorganization, insurance, intellectual property, information technology, litigation, labor, mergers & acquisitions, mortgage banking, public finance, real estate, securities and tax law.