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Contains 5 Component(s) Includes Multiple Live Events. The next is on 09/27/2024 at 2:00 PM (EDT)
Keep up with the rapidly-evolving solar fraud and door-to-door practice landscape by joining NACA's free monthly Solar Fraud Conversation!
Keep up with the rapidly-evolving solar fraud and door-to-door practice landscape by joining NACA's free monthly Solar Fraud Conversation! Get input on tricky specifics of your case, hear about the challenges and successes others have experienced, and more. Led by an experienced practitioner, conversations are open and unrecorded to facilitate as free a discussion as possible. Speaking of free, that’s exactly how much you have to pay to attend!
Robert Treinan
Rob Treinen is a father, husband, skateboarder, and consumer protection lawyer. He loves all these roles. He loves living in Albuquerque, NM. He has been a consumer protection lawyer his whole career, starting at New Mexico Legal Aid in 1999, and now running his own one-attorney firm.
John O'Neal
O'Neal Law Office
John O’Neal represents persons across North Carolina in matters of auto fraud, solar fraud, unfair/harassing debt collection, credit reporting issues, illegal repossessions, and various other civil matters. John was a founding member and chair of the Consumer Areas of Practice Section of the North Carolina Advocates of Justice (formerly NCATL) and has provided seminars, resources, and advice to countless lawyers and consumers across North Carolina. John is a proud alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the UNC School of Law.
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Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits Includes a Live Web Event on 09/25/2024 at 2:00 PM (EDT)
Learn how to integrate the FCRA into your practice, starting with introductory steps for issue spotting and case development.
Your clients are being subjected to more and more background screening reports – for private rentals, jobs, and subsidized housing programs – and this has made the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) a crucial tool for legal services attorneys. High error rates in these reports often lead to inaccurate or outdated information, which can significantly impact your client's access to housing, credit, employment, or public benefits. Learn how to integrate the FCRA into your practice, starting with introductory steps for issue spotting and case development. This webinar will be geared to beginners and to those thinking about integrating the FCRA into their legal aid practice.
What You Will Learn:
• How to use or adapt your existing intake process to screen for and issue spot potential cases under the FCRA that fit within traditional legal aid priorities
• How to assist clients with first steps in addressing inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information in a consumer report
• How to identify key elements of an FCRA claim, including the legal standards for accuracy and completeness.
• How to develop partnerships with private lawyers to refer and co-counsel FCRA cases.Adam Thoresen
Senior Staff Attorney
Jacksonville Area Legal Aid
Adam Thoresen is a senior staff attorney with the public interest law firm, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc. He has worked at JALA for over ten years, and his practice is currently focused on FCRA litigation related to landlord/tenant debts and other inaccuracies in tenant screening reports. Adam has litigated cases with all of the Big Three Consumer Reporting Agencies as well as specialty debt collectors whose focus is the collection of residential landlord/tenant debts. Adam handles cases on an individual and class basis under the FCRA, FDCPA, FCCPA, and other consumer protection statutes.
John Ukegbu
John Ukegbu is a senior staff attorney at Northeast New Jersey Legal Services, where he represents low-income consumers. He has served as a member of the District Ethics Committee and as a trustee for the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection. He served as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Special Civil Part Practice and is the second vice-president of the Hudson County Bar Association. He is a graduate of Western New England University School of Law.
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Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits Includes a Live Web Event on 09/24/2024 at 2:00 PM (EDT)
This webinar will discuss the breadth and limitations of Loper Bright on judicial review of agency action, as well as the implications for evaluating, strategizing, and litigating consumer law cases.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, eliminated the doctrine known as “Chevron deference.” Under that doctrine, courts considering challenges to agency action deferred to the agency’s statutory interpretation, if the statute did not answer the question and the agency’s statutory reading view was reasonable.
The absence of Chevron deference may transform how federal agencies evaluate and issue regulations, and even how Congress drafts legislation. But how does it affect attorneys representing consumers in private cases? This webinar will discuss the breadth and limitations of Loper Bright on judicial review of agency action, as well as the implications for evaluating, strategizing, and litigating consumer law cases.
Participants are invited to submit questions in advance.
What You Will Learn
• How the new regulatory landscape will affect private cases
• How to evaluate consumer statutes in the context of the Loper Bright holding
• What factors to consider in defending (or not) existing regulation in litigation
• What are potential or parallel impact on state statutes and regulation-
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Contains 2 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 09/20/2024 at 2:00 PM (EDT)
Join NACA’s Education Director, Rebecca Smolar and NCLC Senior Attorney Andrea Bopp Stark for a demonstration and conversation about how generative AI apps for your presentations
Your ability to quickly create compelling multi-media presentations is getting easier and easier with new tools like generative AI. Join NACA’s Education Director, Rebecca Smolar and NCLC Senior Attorney Andrea Bopp Stark for a demonstration and conversation about how generative AI apps like Chat GPT and Gemini can give you ideas that you can use to improve your presentation. Whether in the courtroom or classroom, we are best able to learn new information through the use of multiple communication modalities. One of the hardest components to add to a presentation is the action component when learners apply the knowledge and skills being taught to them. With the help of AI, you can create an interactive activity that will help the attendees apply lessons learned and transform your presentation from ordinary to extraordinary.
What You Will Learn
• How to create prompts in Generative AI to get the results you want
• How to use Generative AI to critique your presentations
• How to use Generative AI responsiblyRebecca Smolar
Associate Director of Education
NACA
Rebecca Smolar is the Associate Director of Education at NACA. She is responsible for partnering with NACA members to develop and strengthen NACA’s education and training offerings and to ensure that members are kept abreast of trends in the field. Before joining NACA, she created continuing education programs for high school teachers and college professors through the State University of New York and Washington-DC area think tanks. She started her career as an Officer of Public Affairs at the Embassy of Israel where she gave hundreds of speeches about Israel and U.S.-Israel relations. Ms. Smolar received a M.A. in International Communications from American University and her B.S. in Psychobiology from SUNY Binghamton.
Andrea Bopp Stark
National Consumer Law Center
Andrea Bopp Stark is a senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center Boston office focusing on writing and teaching about fair debt collection practices and mortgage servicing issues. Andrea is the Conference Curriculum Coordinator and is also involved in advocating for foreclosure prevention and fair debt collection policies on the state and federal level. Andrea is a contributing author to NCLC’s Fair Debt Collection, Home Foreclosures, and Mortgage Servicing and Loan Modifications legal manuals.
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Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits Includes a Live Web Event on 09/18/2024 at 2:00 PM (EDT)
This webinar will make class action litigation approachable for the solo practitioner.
Solos, learn how you can make class action litigation more approachable and how to spot potential class-worthy claims in your case files. This webinar shows how state-based classes and the benefits of partnering with co-counsel can allow you to successfully prosecute class action cases. Solos will also learn how to build their resumes to arm themselves with the tools necessary to develop cases and be certified as adequate class counsel.
What You Will Learn
• How to select the right cases to proceed as putative class actions
• How to develop a class action resume
• How to work with co-counsel and experts
• How to minimize costs with discovery and class administration tactics
• How to plan for cost expenditures and class administrationStacy Bardo
Founder
Bardo Law, P.C.
Stacy Bardo has dedicated her law practice for the last 20+ years to the protection of everyday people. Based in Chicago, Stacy files suits for consumers who have been the victims of unlawful business practices, consumer fraud, wrongful repossessions, automobile fraud, identity theft, and false credit reporting. She has been appointed class counsel in numerous national and statewide class actions certified in IL, NY, CA, MI, MN, and WA. Stacy is a past co-chair of NACA’s Board of Directors and currently serves on the NCLC/NACA Conference Steering Committee. Stacy is a graduate of Northwestern University and Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Amy Wells
Amy Wells provides legal consulting to other firms and practitioners. She offers guidance on complex litigation, case development, and project management of mass actions, building on her 20 years of consumer advocacy with a focus on class and multidistrict litigation with an emphasis on TCPA, FCRA, and product defect cases. Amy has served the legal community through various leadership positions in her home base of Chicago and Ohio, where she got her start; these include having served as state chair for both NACA and OAJ, presidency of the local trial lawyers association, appointment to the Ohio Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, and several board positions.
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Contains 25 Component(s) Includes Multiple Live Events. The next is on 09/12/2024 at 1:00 PM (EDT)
Join us for an online discussion with NACA attorneys on the latest trends in consumer law.
Join us for an online discussion with NACA attorneys on the latest trends in consumer law.
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Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 09/05/2024
The speakers will cover housing issues older adults face as they age, the most commonly reported frauds and scams, agency policy updates, and available consumer-facing resources .
Join staff from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to learn about fraud and consumer issues affecting older adults’ financial security. The speakers will cover housing issues older adults face as they age, the most commonly reported frauds and scams, agency policy updates, and available consumer-facing resources that you can share with your clients for free. The webinar will both provide a great introduction for people new to the FTC’s and CFPB’s work as well as provide a good update for everyone interested in issues facing older adults.
What You Will Learn
• What scams are affecting older adults and practical tips to help clients who have been scammed
• What issues older adult homeowners face as they age
• How to take advantage of the FTC’s and CFPB’s free resources for consumersPatty Hsue
Patty Hsue is senior attorney in the Division of Marketing Practices of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. She has investigated and filed cases against health insurance scams, charity frauds, and government imposters. She has also led multiple program areas including the FTC’s technical initiatives on robocalls, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, and is currently leading the FTC’s efforts to address fraud against older adults. As part of the older adults program area, Patty is also the Stop Senior Scams Act Coordinator and is overseeing the agency’s implementation of the Act’s mandates.
Cora Hume
Cora Hume is an Attorney with the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection’s Office for Older Americans. Prior to joining the CFPB in 2012, Cora was the Legislative Director at the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA). Cora has over twenty years of advocacy and legal experience including serving as a legal aid attorney in Maryland, practicing voting rights law during the 2004 Presidential election, working as an associate at a plaintiff-side labor law firm, and serving as an Honors Attorney at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Fair Housing Division. Cora is a graduate of Williams College and Northeastern University School of Law.
Bridget Small
Bridget Small is a writer, educator, and speaker in the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Consumer and Business Education. For more than 30 years, she has contributed to fraud prevention education, community-based programs, and research related to older adults and fraud. She is an experienced advocate, who has spoken at conferences and with media, managed a telemarketing fraud prevention campaign, and coordinated a grant-funded research program to contact at-risk older adults. She holds a JD from George Washington University Law School.
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Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 08/28/2024
Join us to learn how to handle the unique obstacles and challenges consumers face when purchasing new electric vehicles.
Are you up to speed on how to handle all the special features included with EV vehicles? Join us to learn how to handle the unique obstacles and challenges consumers face when purchasing new electric vehicles. An understanding of the nuances of EV technology and warranties is needed to tackle these cases and effectively advocate for your clients.
Gain insight on trends, common pitfalls, and successful litigation tactics in lemon law cases that involve electric vehicles. Whether you're a seasoned attorney or new to the world of lemon law, this seminar will enhance your skills and expand your expertise.
What You Will Learn
• What are the similarities and differences with EV lemon law cases and standard lemon law claims
• What are the unique issues and obstacles facing EV lemon owners and their attorneys.
• What are future trends to expect as the auto industry embraces EV technologies-
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This webinar should be attended by any attorney representing consumers who handle wrongful repossession cases.
Car repossessions have been on the rise in 2024 with an estimated 5,400 occurring daily. As nearly 6.3 million Americans stand at risk of falling behind on their car payments consumer attorneys are needed to help consumers avoid wrongful repossessions and breaches of peace and should consider adding repo cases to their practice areas.
This webinar should be attended by any attorney representing consumers who handle wrongful repossession cases. This is intended to be an intermediate level webinar that can benefit practitioners of all levels.
What You Will Learn
• How to recognize the categories of wrongful repossession cases (breach of the peace, not in default, bad data repos)
• How to begin your investigation for repo cases
• How to apply 15 U.S.C. section 1692f(6) to the wrongful repossession.
• How to select defendants (repo company, lender, plate reading company, police) with consideration of applying the FDCPA and avoiding arbitration
• What are key differences in state law relating to repossessions and the damages that can be sought for wrongful reposYitzchak Zelman
Yitzchak Zelman, Esq. is a partner at Marcus Zelman, LLC. Mr. Zelman graduated from Cardozo Law School in 2012 and has consistently been at the forefront of many emerging consumer protection issues ever since. His practice focuses on individual and class action consumer protection litigation, specifically including the FCRA. Mr. Zelman is licensed in New Jersey, New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third and Ninth Circuits, as well as countless district courts nationwide, including the United States District Courts of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Texas, Indiana and Illinois.
Kris Skaar
Kris Skaar is a partner at Skaar and Feagle and has taught continuing legal education on the topics of the FDCPA and the defense of debt collection suits. Kris earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1983 and a law degree in 1986 from The University of Georgia. He is admitted to all Georgia trial courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dale Pittman
Dale Pittman is widely regarded as the founder of the consumer protection Bar in Virginia. After graduating from the University of Richmond School of Law in 1976, he was hired to open the Petersburg Legal Aid Society where he practiced consumer law for 20 years. He opened his own private practice in 1996. His practice focuses primarily on the representation of consumers in debt collection harassment and abuse cases under the FDCPA. He has contributed to numerous NCLC publications. Dale serves on the governing body of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, where he Chairs the VTLA’s Consumer Law Section. He was the recipient of the Virginia State Bar Legal Aid Award, NACA’s Consumer Attorney of the Year Award, Virginia Poverty Law Center’s Advocate of the Year Award, and VTLA’s Oliver White Hill Courageous Advocate Award.
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Learn about the experience NACA’s inaugural class of fellows enjoyed this summer interning at NACA member firms and you how you could receive financial support to host a current law student or recent graduate.
Learn about how NACA member firms and organizations can receive summer law student and/ or recent law graduate help through NACA's fellowship programs. Ira Rheingold will provide details about NACA’s summer and 2-year consumer law fellowships and answer all your questions including how you can bring a fellow to your firm or organization. These exciting new fellowships create great opportunities for both NACA members and for future consumer lawyers.
Ira Rheingold
Executive Director
National Association of Consumer Advocates
Ira Rheingold is the executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA). At NACA, Ira has testified before both Houses of Congress, offered commentary before federal and state regulatory agencies, and helped draft amicus briefs before the nation’s highest courts. Ira created and managed the Institute for Foreclosure Legal Assistance. Currently, Ira serves as co-chair of the Financial Services Committee of the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD). Previously, Ira worked at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago where he ran its Foreclosure Prevention and Senior Housing Projects. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center.
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