Guest Blog by Veryl Pow, Skadden Fellow with Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service
As a Skadden fellow at a major civil rights organization deploying a consumer law approach to bail reform in Maryland, I find myself occupying a precarious space in both civil rights and...
Written by Christine Hines, Legislative Director
In July 2011, Richard Cordray—formerly an Ohio Attorney General and Ohio state representative—...
Are Public “Requests for Information” Merely a Smokescreen to Feign Legitimacy of Mick Mulvaney’s Disruption of Consumer Agency?
Written by Christine Hines, Legislative Director
This week, Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer...
Guest Blog by NACA Member Amy Hennen, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service
As the Managing Attorney for Housing and Consumer Law at the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS), I oversee all aspects of our consumer work, not the least of which is debt collection defense. In...
Written by Christine Hines, Legislative Director
This Congress continues to let its friends in the financial industry have their way at the expense of American consumers.
The ...
A new year brings on new challenges, and there may be no greater challenge for consumer attorneys than the surprise we found in the tax law passed at the end of 2017. What we discovered was that new law all but eliminated...
From: Ayalon B. Eliach
To: NACA Members
Date: January 4, 2018
Subject: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
This memorandum does not constitute tax advice. It is intended solely as an informational resource for NACA members to understand some of the issues that the NACA Tax...
This year has been a tough one for consumer attorneys. From our painfully close loss on the arbitration rule that would have allowed class actions against financial service institution’s unlawful acts, to ongoing threats to debt collection, student lending, and payday lending laws and...
Hi all,
We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. A couple of NACA members have posted concerns about the updated criteria for NACA membership, the process of developing those criteria, and various other things. While we’re all for open discussion of the issues...
Dear fellow NACA members:
We’re writing to let you know that, starting today, new prospective members who apply to join NACA will use updated membership criteria and a new application and pledge, and will pledge to abide by a new Member Code of Conduct. These improvements are the...