Gathering, Preserving, and Leveraging Evidence in FDCPA and TCPA Cases
Evidence handling is crucial to efficiently and effectively winning your FDCPA/TCPA cases. You can win these cases if you approach evidence gathering and preservation early—long before a case is ever filed—and then leverage it to overwhelm a short-sighted defendant. Every practitioner interested in improving his/her evidence-handling strategies ought to attend this important webinar. What You…
Fighting Unauthorized Billing and Charges on Consumer Accounts
Join this webinar to get practical information to help clients who have experienced unauthorized charges on their credit card, debit card, or bank accounts as well as their telephone bills or app store accounts. The FTC has sued operators of a variety of schemes that defrauded consumers with unauthorized charges and will share information about…
Used Car Cases Can Be More Profitable Than You Think
The used automobile sales industry is well known for its consumer protection abuses. However, because used car consumer cases often do not involve financially stable dealerships or claims against manufacturers, many consumer attorneys shy away from them. If you pick the right cases, you can build a viable auto fraud practice dealing with used car…
Maximizing Damages under the FDCPA
With the right storytelling and common law theories, you can maximize actual and punitive damages under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). Use of recent trial verdicts and arbitration awards can strengthen your case as well. We’ll cover the authorities that help you establish the correct standard for determining actual damages (e.g. emotional distress)…
Navigating Consumer Protection Issues in Auto Buying
Have you ever had a client who was taken for a ride and lost significant money when buying a new or used car? In this webinar, staff from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will discuss some of the current consumer protection issues around one of the most expensive consumer purchases. Presenters will describe various deceptive…
Discovering Evidence in Credit Reporting Cases
Discovery in FCRA litigation is complex and compounded by defense counsel that feign ignorance and systematically work to maintain a veil of secrecy over their clients’ credit reporting activities. This seminar is intended to lift that veil by discussing common defense tactics aimed at frustrating your ability to conduct discovery as well as providing an…
Basic Concepts of the Electronic Funds Transfers Act
The FDCPA has come under an onslaught of resistance. Besides many companies cleaning up their collection calls, Spokeo and other creative defenses have hampered the effectiveness of consumer lawyers assisting debtor-clients. One statute that is often overlooked as a means for providing some protections to consumers is the Electronic Funds Transfers Act (EFTA). More and…
Mortgage 101
Webinars How to Handle Mortgage Loan Modifications After Forbearance How to set up a Successful Mortgage Practice Practice Tips for Litigating Regulation X Cases Strategies for Deposing Corporate Fact Witnesses The Da Vinci Code—How to read and understand Mortgage Life of Loan Histories using Black Knight’s LoanSphere Magnified MSP Why These Videos Are Helpful Are…
Practice Tips for Litigating Regulation X Cases
Now that HAMP has expired, it is more important than ever to utilize the provisions of Regulation X to ensure that servicers provide your clients with timely, thorough evaluations for all loss mitigation options. Regulation X has important protections in place for your clients in seeking options to save their homes. These actively litigated protections…
Consumer Defense Clinics: Building a Courthouse Clinic from the Ground Up
More than two-thirds of litigants in civil debt collection cases in the U.S. go through the court process unrepresented. As a result, many unrepresented consumers do not know how to defend themselves and often receive judgments for debts that have viable defenses or counter-claims. The key to addressing this problem is collaboration between pro bono…
Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc.
More than one-third of the $11.7 billion debt collection industry revenue comes from debt buyers who buy third-party debt for just a few cents on the dollars. The 9–0 Supreme Court’s Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc. 2017 WL 2507342 decision now exempts banks that buy third party debt from the Fair Debt Collection Practices…
Maximizing the Value of a TCPA Lawsuit
The TCPA is a hot bed of litigation and the time to file is yesterday. Anybody who is litigating or considering litigating TCPA cases could benefit from finding out how to make defendants pay top dollar on their cases. What You Will Learn How to put on your “$1500 Per Call” case from the client intake…
Litigating Adversary Proceedings in Consumer Bankruptcy Cases
Expand your consumer bankruptcy practice by learning how to file adversary proceedings in bankruptcy court and to maximize the value of your current cases. This webinar is geared to beginner and intermediate bankruptcy practitioners so that they can spot potential opportunities to help consumers in bankruptcy cases. What You Will Learn How to file an…
How to Set up a Successful Mortgage Practice
Dodd-Frank Mortgage Servicing Rules, alone or in conjunction with Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, are effective tools to assist homeowners with mortgage-related financial problems. You have heard about the rules, but how do you avoid having Chapter 7 as your own exit strategy? This webinar is for those practitioners who cannot resist these legal challenges but still…
Debt Collection Issues and Other Updates from the FTC
Join us to hear about some of the recent issues the Federal Trade Commission has been seeing in debt collection matters. These issues include phantom debt, unlawful third-party communications, collectors not disclosing their identity, and other misrepresentations regarding the nature of the debt. Staff from the FTC will talk about recent cases involving violations of…
Building your FDCPA Practice Using your Current Stock of Consumer Debt Work
If you have a consumer bankruptcy or debt defense practice, this webinar is for you. Our speakers will help you identify the opportunities for income-generating FDCPA cases you may already have in your files. Find the low-hanging fruit that these practice areas provide and learn how to build an FDCPA practice from the ground up.…
Strategies for Deposing Corporate Fact Witnesses
Mortgage companies and other industry players usually designate professional witnesses who know next to nothing and waste our time. To pin down what went wrong, we need to identify and depose fact witnesses. We can gather both facts and admissions from these fact witnesses. These depositions often help focus our strategy for deposing a corporate…
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