Debt Defense 101

Webinars

• Defending Debtors against First- and Third-Party Creditors
• Turning Debt Defense Cases into a Consumer Practice
• Debt Defense 101 Trial Preparation
• Debt Defense with Peter Holland
• What to ask when you don’t know: 30b6 of a debt buyer
• Residential Rental Debt Collection

Why These Videos Are Helpful

Are you interested in developing a thriving debt defense practice? This webinar series will help you prepare a consumer debt case for trial, spot affirmative claims among your current debt cases, and litigate (from issue spotting to settlement) debt buyer cases. This webinar series is geared to beginner and intermediate debt defense practitioners.

What You Will Learn

• How to develop effective pre-trial negotiations tactics and trial strategies to defend clients against first and third party creditors.
• How to spot a variety of affirmative claims in your client’s collection case and to decide whether or not to bring counter claims or affirmative claims
• How to defend a consumer debt collection case at trial
• How to litigate debt buyer cases
• How to identify common challenges to the claimed amount of rental debt

Presenters

Suzanne Begnoche represents plaintiffs in matters involving identity theft, security breaches, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practice Act, and North Carolina’s fair debt collection laws.

Lynn Coleman represents consumers who have debt issues and consumer complaints. She is a federally designated Debt Relief Agency under the United States Bankruptcy Laws.

Will Geddings is a debtor’s lawyer who has spent the better part of a decade working at Hays Cauley, P.C. in Florence, South Carolina. Will Geddings is a debtor’s lawyer who has spent the better part of a decade working at Hays Cauley, P.C. in Florence, South Carolina. Will’s main areas of practice center around debt defense and automobile fraud.

Tyler Hickle is a solo practitioner in Austin, Texas. His practice focuses on consumer law, particularly the interactions between landlord-tenant and debt collection. He frequently sues apartment debt collectors for violations of state and federal law. He graduated from Texas A&M University and has a law degree from Indiana University – Bloomington.

Peter Holland is a clinical instructor at the Consumer Protection Clinic of the University of Maryland Law School. Peter is also the author of two articles about debt buyer litigation: “The One Hundred Billion Dollar Problem in Small Claims Court: Robo-Signing and Lack of Proof in Debt Buyer Cases,” and “Defending Junk Debt Buyer Lawsuits.”

Thomas Papson is a Volunteer Staff Attorney in the Consumer Law Unit of Legal Aid DC, in Washington, DC, where he regularly represents former tenants in rental debt collection actions. He was heavily involved in the recent reforms to DC’s debt collection laws, which imposes strict pleading and documentation requirements on landlords and debt collectors seeking to collect rental debt. Before joining Legal Aid DC in 2013, Tom was a partner in a national law firm. He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania and law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.