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2023 Consumer Rights Litigation Conference

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Introduction to Consumer Law 2023

Building a Consumer Law Case 2023

Legal Practice Tips Every Lawyer Should Know 2023

Originating a Consumer Law Case 2023

Welcome to Consumer Law 2023

Student Loan Intensive 2023

ABCs of Student Loans 2023

Intro to Student Loan Discharges & Other Administrative Relief 2023

Private Student Loans & Other Education Debt 2023
 

Thursday, October 26, 2023

A1: Challenging Algorithmic Bias in Credit and Housing

A2: Revocation of Acceptance in Auto Warranty and Fraud Cases

A3: Trapped at Work: Combating Employer-Driven Debt

A4: ABCs of Utility Debt: Practical Solutions and Litigation

A5: Bringing Cases to Help Military Consumers

B1: ABCs of Mortgage Servicing

B2: Challenging Predatory Practices in Higher Education

B3: Conducting Effective Depositions (no written materials)

B4: ABCs of Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

B5: Arbitration Trends

C1: Major Student Loan Updates

C2: ABCs of Auto Fraud

C3: ABCs of FCRA: Focus on Tenant Screening

C4: Navigating Payment Fraud: Claims, Pitfalls, and Strategies

C5: Using RICO in Consumer Class Actions on Predatory Credit and Student Loans

D1: Property Preservation and Home Break-In Cases: Getting the Evidence to Prove Liability and Maximize Damages

D2: Dark Patterns, Set-up-to-Fail Lending, and Other Abusive Conduct

D3: Avoiding Forced Arbitration in FCRA Cases

D4: Introduction to Criminal Justice Debt

D5: Ethical Considerations and Other Challenges of Representing Older or Disabled Clients and Clients of Diminished Capacity

Friday, October 27, 2023

E1: Property Tax Foreclosures: Constitutional and Bankruptcy Issues

E2: Repossessions (CRLC 2023)

E3: FCRA Marketing, Intake, Client Development

E4: Medical Debt Collection: Policy Landscape and Opportunities for Advocacy

E5: ETHICS - Confidentiality in Discovery, Court Filings, and Settlement

F1: TILA Mortgage Origination Claims: Disclosures (TRID)

F2: Recent Developments in TCPA Litigation

F3: Return to Repayment: New Repayment Options and Flexibilities to Help Manage Student Loan Bills

F4: Going After Bad Lawyers: Legal, Strategic and Ethical Considerations in Seeking Sanctions and Bringing Affirmative Actions to Challenge Attorney Misconduct in Mortgage and Debt Collection Cases

F5: Home Energy Efficiency/Affordability/Renewable Energy Programs and Scams: Distinguishing Between the Real Programs and Rip-Offs (Part 1)

G1: Home Energy Programs: Solar & Door-to-Door Frauds (including E-Sign) (Part 2)

G2: New Student Loan Discharge Rules

G3: How to Win Your FCRA Case

G4: Strategies in Debt Defense Cases

G5: Consumer Rights Advocacy for Domestic & Sexual Violence Survivors from Underserved and Culturally Specific Communities

H1: Updates in Mortgage Servicing Loss Mitigation

H2: Other Parties' Liability for Auto Dealer Conduct

H3: FCRA Developments

H4: Nursing Home Debt Collection: What Consumer Lawyers Need to Know

H5: Telemarketing Claims – Legal Limits on Consent and ID Requirements (TCPA)

I1: Homeownership Roundtables: Tangled Title, Zombie Seconds, Loss Mitigation (no written materials)

I2: Auto TILA and E-SIGN

I3: Discharging Student Loans in Bankruptcy

I4: Suing Debt Buyers for Abusive Practices

I5: Drafting a Winning Motion for Maximum Attorneys' Fee

Saturday, October 28, 2023

J1: Advanced RESPA Litigation Issues

J2: Earned Wage Advances and Other Fintech Payday Loans

J3: Tenant Screening: Federal and State Policy Developments

J4: Fighting Credit Repair Scams: Litigation & Other Strategies

J5: Using the Disparate Impact Theory to Challenge Systemic Inequities in Housing, Credit and Insurance

K1: Helping Homeowners After a Natural Disaster

K2: Debt Collection Calls - New TCPA Claims & Other Prerecorded Calls

K3: Trying Small and Large Cases to Final Award in Arbitration

K4: Junk Fees in Residential Rentals

K5: Ethics - How To Understand Race Dynamics With Clients And Litigation the Disparate Impact Theory to Challenge Systemic Inequities in Housing, Credit and Insurance

L1: Defending Against Enforcement Actions by HOAs

L2: Advanced Successor in Interest Issues: Helping Heirs Save the Family Home

  

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2021 Consumer Rights Litigation Conference

Monday, December 6, 2021

A1: ABCs of FCRA

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

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

Engagement Session - Case Strategies from the Complaint Through Trial to Maximize Results Roundtable & Strategy Summit

Engagement Session - CFPB Listening Session - Housing 

[not available]

Engagement Session - Q&A about Reg F and Your FDCPA Practice

 

  

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2020 Consumer Rights Litigation Conference

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

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

C6: Using the FDCPA to Effect Systemic Change

C7: Credit Math for Car Cases

C8: Winning Motions to Compel

C9: Ethical Implications of the Taxation of Attorney’s Fees

 

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

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

 

L1: New Debt Collection Regulations Live Q&A

L2: Questions and Answers on Regulatory Advocacy with Former CFPB Officials

 

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)

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 [written materials are not available for this session]

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

 

  

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2019 Consumer Rights Litigation Conference

Thursday, November 14th, 2019

A1: Mortgages and Mortgage Markets 101

A2: Defending Against Efforts to Compel Arbitration of FDCPA Claims

A3: How to Mediate Consumer Cases

A4: The Future of Auto

A5: TCPA for Beginners

A6: Ethical Considerations in Consumer Litigation

B1: The Present and Future of Fintech Mortgages

B2: The Changing Student Loan Landscape: Recent Developments in Federal Student Loan Policy and Practice

B3: Tenant Screening: Policy and Litigation Solutions to Addressing a Critical Aspect of the Eviction/Housing Crisis

B4: Autofraud on the Lot and on the Net

B5: ABCs of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

B6: What’s Left? Standing After Spokeo

C1: Saving Homes in Bankruptcy: Why Chapter 13 Should be Part of Your Toolbox

C2: ABCs of Student Loans: How to Challenge Garnishments and Offsets

C3: ABC's of TILA

C4: ABC’s of Autofraud

C5: ABCs of FCRA

C6: Utility Debt: Consumer Protections and Strategies

D1: Robbery with the Stroke of a Pen: Home Equity Theft and "We Buy Houses" Scams

D2: Navigating FDCPA practice in the wake of Supreme Court decisions in Henson and Obduskey

D3: After the Data Breach: Helping ID Theft Victims with FCRA, EFTA, FCBA, & More

D4: Collaborations Between Legal Aid and Private Practice Attorneys

D5: Rent-to-Own and New Retail Finance Products

D6: Coming to Terms—Protect Your Clients by Negotiating the Best Settlement Terms

 

Friday, November 15th, 2019

E1: RESPA Update

E2: Representing Clients with Criminal Justice Debts

E3: Issue Spotting: Consumer and Civil Legal Issues for DV Survivors

E4: A Talk With Arbitrators: What they expect from counsel, and what you can expect from the Arbitrators

E5: Preparing for Depositions with the Successful End Goal in Mind

E6: Home Purchase Scams: Land Contracts, Lease-Options, and Beyond

F1: Using the Rules of Evidence to Set Up Wins in Mortgage and Foreclosure-Related Trials and in Appeals

F2: Complementary AG and Private Lawsuits

F3: Consumer Protection for Service Members

F4: TCPA: Effective Use of the TCPA for Individual Cases Challenging Debt Collection Harassment

F5: Working with the Media: How Journalists Do Their Job and How to Use Media Outreach in Your Advocacy

F6: How to Help Limit Your Client’s Tax Liability for Your Attorney’s Fees

G1: Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You; Ask How to Stop Foreclosures on Government-Insured Loans

G2: When Is a Loan Not a Loan? Slippery New Fintech Products for Students, Homeowners, Wage Advances and More

G3: Sealing, Expungement and FCRA: Criminal Records Reporting in a New Era

G4: Representing Consumers When Their Creditors File Chapter 11

[There are no materials for Session G4.]

G5: Ethical Pursuit and Handling of Effective Cy Pres Awards

G6: Life Cycle of a State Campaign

H1: Representing Older Homeowners and Surviving Spouses Facing Reverse Mortgage Foreclosure

H2: Workshop: Practice Issue-Spotting to Build Your Debt Defense Case and Identify Affirmative Claims

H3: FCRA Developments

H4: Stating the Case and Brief Writing Tips

H5: Fighting High-Cost Loans in DC and Around the Country

H6: Student Loan Preemption Issues

 

Saturday, November 16th, 2019

I1: Flood Insurance: From Risk Assessment  and Mitigation to Post-Flood Claims and Recovery

I2: Commercialized (In)Justice: Protecting Prisoners and Their Loved Ones from Financial Exploitation

I3: Litigating Telemarketing Calls Under the TCPA, Specifically Dealing with the Electronic Consent Issues, Use of Brokers, Independent Agents, and Vicarious Liability

I4: Repossessions: FDCPA Claims, Breach of the Peace, and Big Verdicts

I5: Ethics and Dealing with Difficult People

I6: Spotting Class Action Issues In Individual Representation

J1: Loan Mods Gone Wrong

J2: Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Developments

J3: TCPA Updates—in the Courts, at the FCC and in Congress

J4: Building an Elder Friendly Consumer Law Practice: Best Practices From the Field

J5: ABC’s of Consumer Arbitration/So You Were Sent to Arbitration, Now What?

J6: Class Action Roundtable

K1: Focus on Mortgage Servicing Transfers

K2: Student Loan Roundtable

K3: Successful Settlement and Mediation of FCRA claims

K4: Safety in Consumer Rights Auto Litigation

K5: Defending Against Medical Debt in and out of Court

K6: How Amicus Briefs Can Help a Case