Bring the FCRA into Your Legal Services Practice

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Includes a Live Web Event on 09/25/2024 at 2:00 PM (EDT)

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 High error rates in these reports often lead to inaccurate or outdated information, which can significantly impact your client's access to housing, credit, employment, or public benefits.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.