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SUMMARY:Consumer Protection Issues Affecting Older Adults’ Financial Security: A Primer on Housing Issues (CFPB)\, Scams and Resources (FTC)
DESCRIPTION:Join staff from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to learn about fraud and consumer issues affecting older adults’ financial security. The speakers will cover housing issues older adults face as they age\, the most commonly reported frauds and scams\, agency policy updates\, and available consumer-facing resources that you can share with your clients for free. The webinar will both provide a great introduction for people new to the FTC’s and CFPB’s work as well as provide a good update for everyone interested in issues facing older adults. \n\nWhat You Will Learn\n• What scams are affecting older adults and practical tips to help clients who have been scammed\n• What issues older adult homeowners face as they age\n• How to take advantage of the FTC’s and CFPB’s free resources for consumers. \n\nSpeakers\nPatty Hsue is senior attorney in the Division of Marketing Practices of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. She has investigated and filed cases against health insurance scams\, charity frauds\, and government imposters. She has also led multiple program areas including the FTC’s technical initiatives on robocalls\, the Telemarketing Sales Rule\, and is currently leading the FTC’s efforts to address fraud against older adults. As part of the older adults program area\, Patty is also the Stop Senior Scams Act Coordinator and is overseeing the agency’s implementation of the Act’s mandates. \nCora Hume is an Attorney with the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection’s Office for Older Americans. Prior to joining the CFPB in 2012\, Cora was the Legislative Director at the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA). Cora has over twenty years of advocacy and legal experience including serving as a legal aid attorney in Maryland\, practicing voting rights law during the 2004 Presidential election\, working as an associate at a plaintiff-side labor law firm\, and serving as an Honors Attorney at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Fair Housing Division. Cora is a graduate of Williams College and Northeastern University School of Law. \nBridget Small is a writer\, educator\, and speaker in the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Consumer and Business Education. For more than 30 years\, she has contributed to fraud prevention education\, community-based programs\, and research related to older adults and fraud. She is an experienced advocate\, who has spoken at conferences and with media\, managed a telemarketing fraud prevention campaign\, and coordinated a grant-funded research program to contact at-risk older adults. She holds a JD from George Washington University Law School. \n 
URL:https://www.consumeradvocates.org/events/online-training-courses/consumer-protection-issues-affecting-older-adults-financial-security-a-primer-on-housing-issues-cfpb-scams-and-resources-ftc/
CATEGORIES:Online Training Courses
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T140000
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SUMMARY:Successfully Litigating Class Action Cases as Solo Practitioners
DESCRIPTION:Solos\, learn how you can make class action litigation more approachable and how to spot potential class-worthy claims in your case files. This webinar shows how state-based classes and the benefits of partnering with co-counsel can allow you to successfully prosecute class action cases. Solos will also learn how to build their resumes to arm themselves with the tools necessary to develop cases and be certified as adequate class counsel. \n\nWhat You Will Learn \n\n\n\nHow to select the right cases to proceed as putative class actions\nHow to develop a class action resume\nHow to work with co-counsel and experts\nHow to minimize costs with discovery and class administration tactics\nHow to plan for cost expenditures and class administration\n\n\n\n\nPresenters  \nStacy Bardo has dedicated her law practice for the last 20+ years to the protection of everyday people. Based in Chicago\, Stacy files suits for consumers who have been the victims of unlawful business practices\, consumer fraud\, wrongful repossessions\, automobile fraud\, identity theft\, and false credit reporting. She has been appointed class counsel in numerous national and statewide class actions certified in IL\, NY\, CA\, MI\, MN\, and WA. Stacy is a past co-chair of NACA’s Board of Directors and currently serves on the NCLC/NACA Conference Steering Committee. Stacy is a graduate of Northwestern University and Loyola University Chicago School of Law. \nAmy Wells provides legal consulting to other firms and practitioners. She offers guidance on complex litigation\, case development\, and project management of mass actions\, building on her 20 years of consumer advocacy with a focus on class and multidistrict litigation with an emphasis on TCPA\, FCRA\, and product defect cases. Amy has served the legal community through various leadership positions in her home base of Chicago and Ohio\, where she got her start; these include having served as state chair for both NACA and OAJ\, presidency of the local trial lawyers association\, appointment to the Ohio Attorney General’s Advisory Committee\, and several board positions. \n\nPlease note that live webinars are free to all NACA members. After the webinar has aired\, registrants will need to purchase the webinar if they want to view it. Non-members who purchased the webinar and higher level/firm members with full access to the Training Library will have access to the webinar after it has aired. \n 
URL:https://www.consumeradvocates.org/events/online-training-courses/successfully-litigating-class-action-cases-as-solo-practitioners/
CATEGORIES:Online Training Courses
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T140000
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SUMMARY:Using AI to Improve Your Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Your ability to quickly create compelling multi-media presentations is getting easier and easier with new tools like generative AI. Join NACA’s Education Director\, Rebecca Smolar and NCLC Senior Attorney Andrea Bopp Stark for a demonstration and conversation about how generative AI apps like Chat GPT and Gemini can give you ideas that you can use to improve your presentation. \nWhether in the courtroom or classroom\, we are best able to learn new information through the use of multiple communication modalities. One of the hardest components to add to a presentation is the action component when learners apply the knowledge and skills being taught to them. With the help of AI\, you can create an interactive activity that will help the attendees apply lessons learned and transform your presentation from ordinary to extraordinary. \n\nWhat You Will Learn \n\n\n\nHow to create prompts in Generative AI to get the results you want\nHow to use Generative AI to critique your presentations\nHow to use Generative AI responsibly\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \nRebecca Smolar is the Director of Education at NACA. She is responsible for partnering with NACA members to develop and strengthen NACA’s education and training offerings and to ensure that members are kept abreast of trends in the field. Before joining NACA\, she created continuing education programs for high school teachers and college professors through the State University of New York and Washington-DC area think tanks. She started her career as an Officer of Public Affairs at the Embassy of Israel where she gave hundreds of speeches about Israel and U.S.-Israel relations. Ms. Smolar received a M.A. in International Communications from American University and her B.S. in Psychobiology from SUNY Binghamton. \nAndrea Bopp Stark is a senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center Boston office focusing on writing and teaching about fair debt collection practices and mortgage servicing issues. Andrea is the Conference Curriculum Coordinator and  is also involved in advocating for foreclosure prevention and fair debt collection policies on the state and federal level. Andrea is a contributing author to NCLC’s Fair Debt Collection\, Home Foreclosures\, and Mortgage Servicing and Loan Modifications legal manuals. \n 
URL:https://www.consumeradvocates.org/events/online-training-courses/using-ai-to-improve-your-presentations/
CATEGORIES:Online Training Courses,Upcoming
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SUMMARY:Bring the FCRA into Your Legal Services Practice
DESCRIPTION:Your clients are being subjected to more and more background screening reports – for private rentals\, jobs\, and subsidized housing programs – and this has made the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) a crucial tool for legal services attorneys. High error rates in these reports often lead to inaccurate or outdated information\, which can significantly impact your client’s access to housing\, credit\, employment\, or public benefits. \nLearn how to integrate the FCRA into your practice\, starting with introductory steps for issue spotting and case development. This webinar will be geared to beginners and to those thinking about integrating the FCRA into their legal aid practice. \n\nWhat You Will Learn:  \n\nHow to use or adapt your existing intake process to screen for and issue spot potential cases under the FCRA that fit within traditional legal aid priorities\nHow to assist clients with first steps in addressing inaccurate\, incomplete\, or misleading information in a consumer report\nHow to identify key elements of an FCRA claim\, including the legal standards for accuracy and completeness.\nHow to develop partnerships with private lawyers to refer and co-counsel FCRA cases.\n\n\nSpeakers \nAdam Thoresen is the Division Chief of the Consumer Advocacy and Litigation Unit at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid\, Inc. (JALA). He has a passion for credit reporting and background check issues and currently works in JALA’s main office in downtown Jacksonville. Adam joined JALA in 2009 shortly after his graduation from law school. He currently represents consumers and tenants in state and federal litigation and is a member of the National Association of Consumer Advocates. In addition\, Mr. Thoresen is an active participant with the Florida Legal Services Housing Umbrella Group. \nJohn Ukegbu is a senior staff attorney at Northeast New Jersey Legal Services\, where he represents low-income consumers. He has served as a member of the District Ethics Committee and as a trustee for the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection. He served as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Special Civil Part Practice and is the second vice-president of the Hudson County Bar Association. He is a graduate of Western New England University School of Law. \n\nPlease note that live webinars are free to all NACA members. After the webinar has aired\, registrants will need to purchase the webinar if they want to view it. Non-members who purchased the webinar and higher level/firm members with full access to the Training Library will have access to the webinar after it has aired.
URL:https://www.consumeradvocates.org/events/online-training-courses/bring-the-fcra-into-your-legal-services-practice/
CATEGORIES:Online Training Courses
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