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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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