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!

Join us for an online discussion with NACA attorneys on the latest trends in consumer law.

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 horizon

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 Actions

Why 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

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.

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 Practitioner

Why 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.

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

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 responsibly

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 administration

Webinars

•    Challenges to Certifying Consumer Class Actions
*     Driving Claim Rates in Class Actions
•    Identifying TCPA Class Actions: From Client Intake to Taking a Second Look at Your Current Caseload
•    Introduction to Food Law and Hot Topics
•    Nuts and Bolts: Integrating Food Law Into Your Practice
•    That Could Be a Class Action

Why These Videos Are Helpful
Are you a class action attorney interested in learning about new areas with which to expand your practice? Do you want to litigate cutting edge claims in food law, as well as consumer class cases? Do you want to learn how to overcome challenges to certifying claims and mootness? This webinar series is geared to beginner and intermediate consumer class action attorneys.

What You Will Learn
•    How to successfully apply litigation strategies (and avoid pitfalls) in food law cases
•    How to recognize the hallmarks of a good potential class action
•    How to effectively oppose efforts to moot cases before they have a chance to begin
•    How to handle the regulatory framework for required label information and permissible claims in food law
•    How to identify viable defendants for TCPA class actions