2022
Bankruptcy Intensive
Plenaries
- P1: Opening Plenary: Attorney General Bob Ferguson
- P2: Plenary Session: The Consumer Law Landscape: Major Legislative, Regulatory and Judicial Developments in 2022 -- and More to Come in 2023
- P3: “Fireside Chat” with CFPB Director Rohit Chopra: A Conversation with NCLC’s Chi Chi Wu on Credit Reporting and more
2021
Monday, December 6, 2021
- A1: ABCs of FCRA [not available for on-demand viewing]
- A2: Medical Debt Defense: What Consumer Attorneys Need to Know about Surprise Billing and Other Health Insurance Issues
- A3: ABC’s of Auto Fraud
- A4: ABC’s of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
- A5: Using Violations of Mortgage Servicing Rules without Private Rights of Action as Predicates for FDCPA and UDAP Claims [not available for on-demand viewing]
- A6: Advocating for Change Outside the Courtroom: how to make a difference at the state or city level
- A7: ABCs of Student Loan Law
- A8: Combatting Unauthorized Electronic Charges
- A9: Pandemic Loss Mitigation Updates
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
- B1: Implied Warranty and Mag-Moss: Under Used Yet Remarkably Useful (And No, As-Is Disclaimers Often Don’t Stop You)
- B2: Arbitration Do’s and Dont’s: Succeeding in Arbitration in 2021 and Beyond
- B3: Outside and Alongside the FCRA: Bringing State Law Claims Against “Not CRAs”
- B4: TCPA Litigations Using FCC Actions
- B5: Mortgage Discovery: Getting the Goods
- B6: Using Consumer Law to Protect Tenants Part I: Rental Debt
- B7: Where Attorneys Fear to Tread: FCRA, Family Identity Theft and Victims of Economic Abuse
- B8: Supreme Court Litigation Review
- B9: Criminal Justice Debt: Relief from Collection Based on Financial Hardship or Inability to Pay
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
- C1: Credit Math for Car Cases
- C2: Determining Statute of Limitations in Affirmative and Defensive Debt Collection Cases
- C3: Do’s and Don’ts of Intake and Working Up the Case
- C4: Untangling Title: Saving the Home When Heir Property Issues are Involved
- C5: Intersectionality of Disability Law and Consumer Law
- C6: Prospect Theory: How Behavioral Economics Impacts Litigation and the Ethical Implications for Lawyers
- C7: Student Loan Bankruptcy
- C8: Protecting Those who Protect Us: Claims for Military/Veteran Consumers
- C9: Impact Litigation for Legal Services Attorneys
Thursday, December 9, 2021
- D1: Litigating against Background Screening Companies
- D2: Taxes on Attorneys’ Fees
- D3: RESPA Mortgage Servicing Rules: New COVID-Related Updates
- D4: Utility Debt and Consumer Protections: Intro to Advocacy and Litigation Strategies
- D5: Reversing Course: Protecting Older Adults from Reverse Mortgage Foreclosure
- D6: TCPA Updates and New Interpretations of ATDS Definition
- D7: Escrow Issues: How to Stay Sane and Figure Out What is Going On
- D8: What is a Bank? Fintech, Crypto, Trust, Neo, Public and Other New Banks and Faux Banks
- D9: Freedom of Information Act
Friday, December 10, 2021
- E1: Using State Unfair and Deceptive Acts to Help Consumers
- E2: Student Loan Updates
- E3: FDCPA Developments
- E4: New Developments in Autofraud
- E5: Using Consumer Law to Protect Tenants Part II: Developments in Tenant Screening
- E6: Using the FHA and ECOA to Combat Housing and Credit Discrimination
- E7: Earned Wage Access, Income Share Agreements and Other “Non-recourse” Finance
- E8: Don’t Mess Up the Settlement Agreement
- E9: FCRA Developments
Engagement Sessions, December 13-16, 2021
2020
Monday, November 9, 2020
- A1: Intro to Auto
- A2: ABCs of FCRA
- A3: Medical Debt Primer/Intro to Med Debt
- A4: RESPA Issues in COVID-19 Mortgage Relief Options
- A5: Civil Rights in Consumer Law
- A6: ABCs of Class Action Part 1
- A7: The Dark Side of Solar, PACE, and Home Improvements [not available for on-demand viewing]
- A8: Depositions in the Time of the Novel Coronavirus
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
- B1: Investigation in Auto Cases
- B2: ABCs of Student Loan Law
- B3: Basic Intro into How to Stop Robocalls Under the TCPA
- B4: Fighting Reverse Mortgage Foreclosures: Selected Issues
- B5: Common Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Claims
- B6: Preserving the Income and Assets of Older Adults Impacted by Scams and Financial Exploitation
- B7: FCRA Mini-Intensive, Specialty CRAs Part 1: Conviction Histories, Expungement, and FCRA: Keeping up with Developments in a Changing Legal Landscape
- B8: Payment Scams: From COVID to Check Scams to Zelle
- B9: ABCs of Class Actions Part 2
- B10: Guilt, Fear, and Anger: How to Develop Emotional Distress Damages
- B11: COVID-19 Mortgages: FHA, VA, and USDA Loans
Thursday, November 12, 2020
- C1: Student Loan Repayment After the Pandemic: Issue-Spotting and Default Prevention
- C2: Class Action Update
- C3: FCRA Mini-Intensive, Specialty CRAs Part 2: Tenant Screening
- C4: Utility Debt and COVID-19
- C5: Why and How Legal Services Attorneys and Others Should Do Regulatory Advocacy [not available for on-demand viewing]
- C6: Using the FDCPA to Effect Systemic Change
- C7: Credit Math for Car Cases
- C8: Winning Motions to Compel [not available for on-demand viewing]
- C9: Ethical Implications of the Taxation of Attorney’s Fees [not available for on-demand viewing]
Friday, November 13, 2020
- D1: Using Amended Rule 30(b)(6) to Your Best Advantage
- D2: Repo in the Time of COVID-19
- D3: Attacking State Usury Law Evasions
- D4: Exploring the Important Connections Between Consumer and Worker Advocacy
- D5: Helping Student Loan Borrowers Who Have Been Harmed By Their Schools [not available for on-demand viewing]
- D6: Consumer and Economic Civil Legal Issues for Survivors of Domestic Violence
- D7: Your Client is Being Sued on a Debt: What Now? A Primer on Defeating Debt Collection Lawsuits
Monday, November 16, 2020
- E1: Settling Car Cases: Lessons Learned During the Pandemic
- E2: Cracking the Code: Credit Scores
- E3: Covid-19 Mortgages: Post Forbearance for Fannie & Freddie Loans
- E4: New Point-of-Sale Financing Products
- E5: Justice Isn't Always Blind: Racism Is A Prevalent Issue in Our Court System, Even As A Lawyer
- E6: Criminal Justice Debt Reform: Lessons and Opportunities in the Time of COVID-19 and Mass Protests against Police Violence
- E7: The ABCs of Consumer Arbitration
- E8: E-Sign
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
- F1: Medical Debt Defense
- F2: FCRA Developments
- F3: Small Dollar Loans: What's New in Fed & State Policy Fights
- F4: Gender on Trial: Strategies for Combating Bias in the Courtroom (Ethics)
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F5: You Can’t Have My Client's Stuff! A Primer on Protecting Your Client’s Property Post-Judgment
F6: Home Scams: Government Enforcement Attorneys & Non-Gov Attorneys Work Together
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
- G1: New Developemnts in Auto Litigation and Policy
- G2: Fighting Financial Abuse of Mortgage Debtors in Bankruptcy
- G3: TCPA Updates
- G4: Mortgage Markets and Shadow Banks
- G5: The Rundown: What the Election Means for Student Loan Borrowers & Your Legal Practice
- G6: Fighting Abusive Collection of Criminal Justice Debt
- G7: Assignee/Holder Liability in Auto Cases
- G8: Discovery in FCRA Litigation
Thursday, November 19, 2020
- H1: New Spokeo Developments
- H2: Emerging Fair Housing & Fair Lending Issues in the Digital Era
- H3: Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Developments
- H4: Getting Loan Modifications After a Divorce or Separation
- H5: Practice Issues in TCPA Litigation
- H6: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Income Falsification and Powerbooking, Two Common Dealer Crimes
- H7: What is my FCRA Case Worth?
- H8: Advancing Tenant Rights With Consumer Protection Laws