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How to Build Your Practice One Hour at a Time
If you could get paid for all the time you give away, wouldn’t you? As consumer lawyers, we often feel we have to give our time generously because our clients and potential clients are usually in terrible financial straits; but not every consumer in need of assistance is a pro bono case. This webinar will…
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Ethical Considerations for FDCPA Practitioners
Maintaining a practice concentrating on claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act comes with its own ethical challenges. Join us July 1st for a webinar by David J. Philipps, a NACA founding member with over 25 years of experience in working with the FDCPA. A range of topics taken directly from his experience as…
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Let’s Get Ethical
Legal ethics is a minefield for the unwary lawyer. The program will address common ethics issues that arise in handling consumer matters, including whether one can ethically suggest that a client record telephone calls, issues raised in representing multiple consumers against a single defendant, defendants' efforts to keep information and settlement terms confidential, and ethical…
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Debt Defense with Peter Holland
In this 60 minute webinar, Peter covers background, insights and litigation tips for debt defense cases. Topics include: overview of debt buyer industry; Forward Flow Agreements and bank liability; current regulatory response; debt buyer default judgment business model; client intake; screening for affirmative claims; trial preparation; trial tips; essential settlement terms; and significant case law…
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How to Recover the Full Amount of Attorneys Fees
Many consumer protection cases are litigated under fee-shifting laws. If you prevail on behalf of the consumer in your case, you may be able to recover attorney fees from the other side. Many consumer protection attorneys are well versed on the substantive law that allows them to prevail on behalf of their clients. This webinar…
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Guerrilla Marketing in the Jungle
A consumer practice is often very different than other law business models. Therefore, the approach to marketing should be different as well. This webinar provides an overview of the basics for those that didn’t go to business school, tools to evaluate off-the-shelf marketing products and practical takeaways that can be used in their practice. Presenter…
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Debt Defense 101 Trial Preparation
This webinar will discuss how to defend a consumer debt collection case at trial. It will first very briefly review the information, documents, and testimony you should optimally obtain in discovery for a typical collection defense case. It will then give an introductory-level overview of motions in limine, trial supoenas, evidence format and presentation, stipulations,…
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How to Jumpstart Your Practice
Whether you have been in private practice for years, or if you are just thinking about hanging your own shingle, we can all benefit from giving our careers a "jump start." We will cover an entrepreneurial angle of the practice of consumer law, including insight on creating a business plan, the basics of setting up…
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Tax Initiative Update – 2015
Benjamin Franklin quipped that “nothing can be certain, except death and taxes.” It is surprising, however, that your clients are taxed on the attorney’s fees that you earn while representing them. This webinar will explain why this is the case by looking at attorney’s fees through the lens of tax law. What You Will Learn…
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Trees and Fruit: How Fee Agreements May Change the Taxation of Attorneys’ Fees
The structure of fee agreements plays a significant role in the taxation of attorneys' fees. The Supreme Court has held that traditional contingency fee agreements constitute impermissible assignments of taxable income ("fruit") from clients to their attorneys. The NACA Tax Initiative, however, has been exploring an as-of-yet untested theory that a nontraditional structure for fee…
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1099s and Attorneys’ Fees
It's tax season and by now you and your clients should have received 1099s for settlements and judgments from last year. These forms are often misunderstood and raise many questions, especially regarding their implications for the taxation of attorneys' fees. In this session, you will have the opportunity to have your own questions about 1099s…
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“As Is” Ain’t No Absolution
“As is” disclaimers are found in all used car contract. Defeating "as is" disclaimers is not impossible you just need to know how. Expand and improve your practice by learning how to defeat “as is” disclaimers. What You Will Learn Attendees will learn about the latest theories and case laws available to consumer advocates who…
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How Consumer Law Specialties Choose You
Are you considering or have you just started your own firm? Are you thinking about transitioning into another sub-specialty of consumer protection law? In this webinar, the presenters will discuss the practicalities of choosing specific practice areas in which to grow or expand, or in some cases, which to leave. What You Will Learn Techniques…
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Finance Company Liability in Auto Fraud Litigation
The sharp and outright fraudulent business practices of many auto dealerships are well known and are the subject of much consumer litigation. And, as vehicle financing has grown, particularly for sub-prime auto loans, questions of finance company or “holder” liability have become central to auto fraud litigation. Rather than accept the caps on liability set…
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How to Start/Maintain a Consumer Practice within a Legal Services Agency
According to the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), consumer issues account for eleven percent of all complaints in LSC-funded programs. Yet, the numbers of low income and economically vulnerable individuals impacted by debt collection, bankruptcy and other consumer problems are quite significant. For example, one in seven adults in the U.S. is being pursued by debt…
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