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FCRA Track: Creating a New Generation of FCRA Leaders

This year’s FCRA Track is designed to create a new generation of FCRA leaders to meet the new challenges posed by emerging fintech and AI-driven credit tools, Buy-Now-Pay-Later products, and the Staying ahead of these developments isn’t just useful, it’s essential to identifying strong cases, choosing the right venues, and delivering meaningful relief for your clients.

Building a thriving FCRA practice requires not just strong technical understanding, but also practical skills, strategic judgment, and a trusted professional network. From hard litigation skills such as case valuation and mediation prep to soft skills such as building effective co-counsel relationships, this year’s track will set you up to successfully practice using the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).

What You Will Learn:

What strategies to use when determining whether you have a claim given the lay of the land (legal factual, standing, venue)
How to bolster and supplement your FCRA practice with other consumer claims with fluidity
How to use systems and relationships to increase the value of your case

Finance Fraud

The Center for Responsible Lending recently warned that many residential solar-financing products mirror the predatory tactics of the subprime-lending crisis, with misleading sales practices, hidden markups, and loan terms that trap homeowners in unaffordable debt. These aren’t isolated issues — they represent a growing landscape of “financing in search of a victim,” where consumers are targeted with complex, opaque, and often deceptive credit arrangements in auto and solar loans.

The 2026 Finance Fraud Track is designed to equip consumer attorneys with the tools to identify, analyze, and litigate these cases across industries. You’ll learn how to identify the players behind modern financing schemes, break down auto and solar deal documents, and apply the right federal and state claims — from UDAP to TILA to the Holder Rule. You’ll also confront cutting-edge forms of misconduct, including e-signature abuses and fintech misdirection, while gaining practical checklists and sample documents you can put to work immediately.

Beyond issue-spotting, this track helps you build a sustainable practice in finance fraud litigation. With sessions on insolvent defendants, enforcing judgments, and strategic case selection, you’ll leave ready to protect consumers from predatory financing — and to hold accountable the companies that are designing products that leave families financially exposed. Join us and strengthen your expertise in one of the fastest growing and most consequential areas of consumer law.

What You Will Learn

How to identify and understand cases involving financing
How to litigate/arbitrate financing fraud claims:
How do financial contracts work in auto and door-to-door contexts

Consumer Protection for Tenants: Leveraging Consumer Laws to Protect Tenants

Landlords are increasing the use of junk fees, inaccurate screening reports, abusive collection tactics, and predatory payment portals, often in violation of the FCRA,the FDCPA and numerous local and state laws on housing. These issues are escalating—and legal aid alone can’t keep up.

The Consumer Protection for Tenants track prepares consumer attorneys to fill that gap, collaborate with housing advocates, and build practices that protect tenants and hold landlords and third-party actors accountable. If you want to stay ahead of the trends and use consumer law to safeguard renters in a changing market, the Tenant Track is the place to be.

You’ll learn to spot the consumer claims in everyday housing disputes—FCRA inaccuracies, FDCPA violations, UDAP abuses, illegal fees, unfair reporting, discrimination angles, and class-action opportunities—and develop the litigation skills needed to pursue them. Sessions go beyond issue spotting to focus on triaging cases during intake, weaving together housing and consumer statutes, conducting targeted discovery, and litigating effectively in both the courtroom and in arbitration. Whether you practice consumer law or landlord-tenant law, this track shows you how to turn tenant problems into viable, fee-generating cases.