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Contains 2 Component(s) Includes Multiple Live Events. The next is on 11/22/2024 at 2:00 PM (EST)
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 11/14/2024 at 2:00 PM (EST)
What happens when a borrower dies or a home is transferred through divorce, transferring the home to an owner who is not the original borrower?
What happens when a borrower dies or a home is transferred through divorce, transferring the home to an owner who is not the original borrower? A ripple effect of the Great Recession of 2009 is a large population of borrowers with refinanced and extended-term mortgage loans that will remain unsatisfied until late in their lives. How can attorneys help their clients protect home equity and retain possession of a home subject to a mortgage that has gone into arrears following death or divorce? This webinar will be taught at an intermediate level. Prior knowledge of RESPA mortgage-servicing regulations and a familiarity with your state wrongful-foreclosure and probate laws is highly desirable.
What You Will Learn
• What legal protections exist for successors in interest after death or divorce who want
to prevent foreclosure, continue to pay the mortgage, or pursue mortgage-assistance
options have traditionally been limited
• What regulations the CFPB has enacted under RESPA that now provide more
opportunities to try to save the old homestead and preserve painstakingly preserved
equity
• How to take advantage of limited bankruptcy options.Richard S. Alembik
Principal
Law Offices of Richard S. Alembik, PC
Rick Alembik is the Principal at the Law Offices of Richard S. Alembik, PC, in Decatur, GA. Since 1991, he has focused his practice on real estate-related and commercial litigation. Rick has been recognized as a “leading authority on foreclosure defense,” and an “advocate for victims of wrongful foreclosure.” He has first-chaired more than seventy jury trials and arbitration proceedings in state and federal courts and arbitration forums. Rick earned his J.D. degree from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he served as the Executive Editor of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. He has made numerous TV appearances as a legal commentator, and he has provided consultation on state legislation to Georgia legislators and study groups. He is admitted to practice before all trial and appellate courts of the State of Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, and all three U.S. District Courts in Georgia. Rick is also an active member of the National Association of Consumer Advocates, Lawyers Club of Atlanta, and the Real Estate Section of the State Bar of Georgia.
Sarah Mancini
Sarah Bolling Mancini is Co-Director of Advocacy at the National Consumer Law Center focusing on foreclosures, mortgage lending, and credit reporting issues. Sarah previously worked in the Home Defense Program of Atlanta Legal Aid, and has represented homeowners in litigation in state, federal district, and bankruptcy courts. She also clerked for the Honorable Amy Totenberg, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Sarah is a member of the Georgia Bar. She received her B.A. in public policy from Princeton University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Contains 6 Component(s) Includes Multiple Live Events. The next is on 11/14/2024 at 1:00 PM (EST)
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 Includes a Live Web Event on 11/13/2024 at 2:00 PM (EST)
This webinar will help you advise transgender clients proactively, and it will also arm you with the tools to litigate these claims when necessary.
Credit and background reporting problems can be frustrating for any consumer to resolve. But transgender consumers face unique challenges when confronting these problems. They often encounter common issues with the way consumer reporting agencies deal with their gender transition. Further, the effects of those practices can be especially harmful to transgender consumers, as they impose crushing emotional burdens and may even open them up to discrimination. This webinar will help you advise transgender clients proactively, and it will also arm you with the tools to litigate these claims when necessary. Some basic knowledge of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) would be helpful.
What You Will Learn• What are common issues confronting the transgender community regarding credit/background reporting
• How to proactively advise transgender clients on ways to mitigate and/or be aware of common problems
• How to litigate FCRA claims involving issues specific to transgender consumersErika Heath
Attorney at Law
Erika Heath fights for economic justice on behalf of consumers and employees, with a particular focus on erroneous credit/background reports, unlawful debt collection practices, bank fraud, ID theft, and other unfair trade practices. Erika is particularly passionate about assisting fellow members of the LGBTQ+ community through those employment and consumer legal challenges. She is currently Of Counsel to Francis Mailman Soumilas, P.C., and a Lecturer at Berkeley Law.
Kari Rudd
Bay Area Legal Aid
Kari Rudd has been part of the consumer rights team at Bay Area Legal Aid since 2012, working with low-income clients and community members to advance consumer rights around credit reporting, debt collection, and other consumer financial issues. They do this work at monthly pro per Consumer Rights Clinics throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, in litigating cases, and engaging in all sorts of other advocacy in between.
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If you are interested in getting a better handle on the complexities of the student loan system and want to better advise your clients, this webinar is for you.
Are you keeping up with all the recent changes to the options student loan holders have to manage their debt? With more than eight million student loan borrowers in forbearance and millions more facing major uncertainties with student loan forgiveness, assistance for these borrowers is growing in demand. If you are interested in getting a better handle on the complexities of the student loan system and want to better advise your clients, this webinar is for you.
Attorney Adam S. Minsky is a national authority on student loan law who has built a successful legal practice focused entirely on helping student loan borrowers and their families. He will provide a detailed overview of the complex student loan system and major recent policy and legal developments that have impacted several programs, so that practitioners will be better prepared to help clients who are struggling with student debt.
What You Will Learn
• What are the different student loan types, players, and statuses
• How to navigate the nuances of the multiple repayment plans available to federal student loan borrowers, including income-drive and loan forgiveness programs.
• What are the complex requirements of the most popular federal loan forgiveness options that are available to student loan borrowers.
• What is the outcome of recent policy and legal changes that impact student loan programs, as well as potential future changes that may be on the horizonAdam S. Minsky
Founder
Law Office of Adam S. Minsky
Adam S. Minsky is licensed in Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont and is one of the nation’s leading authorities in student loan law. He remains one of the only attorneys in the country with a practice devoted entirely to helping student loan borrowers and their families. Attorney Minsky provides counsel, legal assistance, and direct advocacy for borrowers on a variety of student loan-related matters. He has been interviewed by major national media outlets including The New York Times, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and has been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer “Rising Star” multiple times since 2015. Attorney Minsky regularly speaks to students, graduates, and advocates about student debt, and writes about the topic in a variety of publications and platforms. He has published three handbooks including The Student Loan Handbook for Law Students and Attorneys, published by the American Bar Association. Attorney Minsky has also been contributing author to the National Consumer Law Center’s manual, Student Loan Law. He is a senior contributor at Forbes.com, where he writes about the latest developments in the student loan space. Attorney Minsky received his undergraduate degree, with honors, in Philosophy and Political Science from Boston University, and his law degree from Northeastern University School of Law.
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Want to get up to speed on where things stand with some of the most popular and critical federal student loan programs?
Webinars:
• Introduction to Student Loan Cases
• Building a Federal Student Loan Practice
• How and When to Discharge Private Student Loans in Bankruptcy
• How to become a successful Student Loan Lawyer
• Presenting Winning Defenses in Private Student Loan Collections ActionsWhy These Videos are Helpful
There are 1.6 trillion dollars in outstanding student loans in the U.S. that affect forty-four million Americans. Want to get up to speed on where things stand with some of the most popular and critical federal student loan programs? Interested in spotting private student loans that can be discharged in bankruptcy? Want to set up a student loan practice from your existing caseload?What You Will Learn
• How to navigate the federal student loan system
• How to find and recognize good potential dischargeability cases
• How to monetize a student loan cases
• How to prepare winning defenses on the statute of limitations and improper notice/venue-
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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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Do you want to hear about best practices for running a consumer unit in a legal services firm?
Webinars
• Consumer Defense Clinics: Building a Courthouse Clinic from the Ground Up
• How to Start/Maintain a Consumer Practice within a Legal Services Agency
• Starting a Student Loan Practice for the Legal Services PractitionerWhy These Videos Are Helpful
Do you want to hear about best practices for running a consumer unit in a legal services firm? Do you want a blueprint for creating a courthouse consumer defense clinic, where you can show private consumer attorneys how volunteering at these clinics can help build their practices and keep them up to date on new trends and abuses in debt collection lawsuits? Want to add a student loan unit to your legal service office? Want to learn how to work with the private bar?What You Will Learn
• How to get buy-in from the judiciary, bar associations, and the private bar for a consumer debt defense clinic
• How to use clinics, hotlines, and other tools to streamline intake and increase capacity
• How to balance a large caseload while successfully integrating student loans work into your practice.-
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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) Recorded On: 09/20/2024
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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