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Don’t Leave Money on the Table: Settle FCRA Cases
What You Will Learn Valuation of case for settlement and materials needed Composing the settlement demand letter Effective negotiating techniquesStrategies in multiple defendant cases Contents of the settlement agreement Presenter…
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Ethics in Consumer Cases: How Not to Look Sleazy
Consumer attorneys frequently encounter a specific set of ethics dilemmas that are unique to consumer cases. Unlike the typically broad, sweeping Ethics Overview CLE, this interactive online course is designed…
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Basic Car Loan Math
Even if you know the basics of calculating monthly payments on ordinary car loans, this webinar is designed to start with the basics, and then look at some of the…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Turning Debt Defense Cases into a Consumer Practice
As advocates representing consumer collection defendants, we have all heard about how to use the FDCPA to turn the tables on debt buyers. But do you know how to turn…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Mortgage 101
Webinars How to Handle Mortgage Loan Modifications After Forbearance How to set up a Successful Mortgage Practice Strategies for Deposing Corporate Fact Witnesses Fighting against Fraudulent Practices in Reverse Mortgage…
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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…
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