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Spring Training 2025
May 1–3, 2025

Auto & Lemon Law

2025-AUTO-1: Pre-Lit Strategies and Informal Dispute

2025-AUTO-2: Nuts and Bolts of Mag Moss Claims & Breach of Warranty Claims

2025-AUTO-3: Overcoming Common Problems in Lemon Law Cases

2025-AUTO-4: Judicial and Mediator's Perspective on Lemon Law Cases

2025-AUTO-5: The Impact of the Change in California Lemon Law on Lemon Lawsuits Nationwide

2025-AUTO-6: Round Table Discussion of Hot Topics (no written materials)

Class Action

2025-CLASS-1: Different Strategies for Handling Arbitration Cases

2025-CLASS-2: Class Rep Considerations

2025-CLASS-3: Best Practices in Class Discovery

2025-CLASS-4: You Certified Your Class, Now What?

2025-CLASS-5: Navigating the Settlement Phase

2025-CLASS-6: Settling Administration Nuts and Bolts

Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA)

2025-EFTA-1: Introduction to the EFTA

2025-EFTA-2: Unauthorized Transfers

2025-EFTA-3: How to Establish Affirmative Claims

2025-EFTA-4: Common Defenses in EFTA Claims

2025-EFTA-5: Discovery in EFTA Cases (no written materials)

2025-EFTA-6: Case Valuation

2025-EFTA-7: Case Resolution

Ethics

2025-ETHICS-1: Joint Ethics Sessions: Trust, Truth, and Taboos: Ethical Advocacy for Immigrant Clients

FDCPA & FCRA Discovery

2025-FDCPA-1: Planning Discovery from the Outset

2025-FDCPA-2: Affirmative Written Discovery

2025-FDCPA-3: Discovery Responses (no written materials)

2025-FDCPA-4: Depositions of Defendants and Third Parties

2025-FDCPA-5: Telling Your Damages Story

2025-FDCPA-6: Motion Practice

Solar Fraud

2025-SOLAR-1: Kilo What? How to Identify, Read, and Interpret Key Documents in Solar Fraud Cases

2025-SOLAR-2: Breaking Through the Blinding Light: Intake in Solar Fraud Cases

2025-SOLAR-3: Critical Conversion: Solar Fraud Case Valuation

2025-SOLAR-4: Avoiding the Solar Eclipse: Avoiding Arbitration

2025-SOLAR-5: Navigating the Solar Eclipse: Preparing for Arbitration

2025-SOLAR-6: Shady Sun Money: The Agency and Connections of Solar Fraud Financing

2025-SOLAR-7: Bending the Sun Rays Your Way: Framing the Case Narrative

Consumer Protections for Renters

2025-TENANT-1: Basics of Landlord Tenant Law

2025-TENANT-2: Spotting Landlord Tenant Claims and Building Your Case

2025-TENANT-3: FCRA Claims and Tenant Screening Claims

2025-TENANT-4: Defending Consumers with Rental Debt Claims and Filing Affirmative Claims

2025-TENANT-5: Damages in Landlord Tenant Cases

2025-TENANT-6: Junk Fees & UDAP Claims in Rental Context (no written materials)

2025-TENANT-7: Landlord Tenant Hypotheticals

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2024 Spring Training Sessions
Thursday, April 11, 2024 – Friday, April 12, 2024

Ethics Session 2024

Ethics Overcoming Practical Challenges with Elder & Disabled Clients

FCRA Track 2024

FCRA-1 Evidence Gathering in Credit Reporting Cases
FCRA-2 Opening Statement (no materials)
FCRA-3 Plaintiffs Story Direct Testimony
FCRA-4 Expert Witness
FCRA-5 Defense Testimony (no materials)
FCRA-6 Defense Experts (no materials)
FCRA-7 Closing Arguments (no materials)
 

FDCPA Track 2024

FDCPA-1 Navigating FDCPA Claims in State Courts
FDCPA-2 What FDCPA Claims Are Being Successfully Argued in Fed Crt
FDCPA-3 Establishing a Successful Arbitration Practice
FDCPA-4 Debt Collection Claims in Housing Context
FDCPA-5 Developing the Story of Your Clients Damages (no materials)
FDCPA-6 Successful Closing Arguments (no materials)
FDCPA-7 Case Law Update of Appellate Decisions
 

Solar Track 2024

Solar-1 Seeing the Light What Is Solar and How Should It Work
Solar-2 Brightening the Light Potential Experts and Vital Evidence
Solar-3 Piercing the Light E-Sign in Solar Cases
Solar-4 Dim or Bright Intake and Case Review
Solar-5 Shining the Bright Lights Case Filing, Target Defendants
Solar-6 Donning the Shades Working Through Vexing Issues in Solar Cases
Solar-7 Case Outcomes
 

2024 Spring Training Workshops
Saturday, April 13, 2024 – Sunday, April 14, 2024
 

Auto Practicum 2024

Auto-1 Ethical Intakes How to Make the Most out of the Initial Call
Auto-2 Pre-suit Evidence Gathering
Auto-3 Depositions and Formal Discovery in Auto Cases
Auto-4 Choice of Law and Interstate Sales
Auto-5 Elimination of Biases Working with Specialized Populations
Auto-6 Handling Auto Cases in Arbitration
Auto-7 Negotiations Hands-on Training Session
Auto-8 What Cases Give Good Outcomes and What Ones Give Bad

Class Action Workshop 2024

Class-1 Class Origination and Co-Counseling
Class-2 Overcoming Common Early Challenges in Class Cases
Class-3 Advertising Class Actions
Class-4 Conflicts with Plaintiffs Counsel
Class-5 Dealing with Defendants and Defense Counsel
Class-6 Challenges Arising with Early Case Motions
Class-7 Class Action Discovery Strategies
Class-8 Public Relations for Class Action Lawyers
Class-9 Fraud and Claim Rates
 

Deposition Skills Workshop 2024

2024 Deposition Skills Presentation

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May 2–4, 2023

Pre-Conference Sessions

 

Auto Practicum: Grow Your Auto Practice

Session 1: Mining for More Gold: Finding Additional Claims in Your Existing Caseload

Session 2: Adding Class to Your Caseload: Identifying Class-Worthy Cases in Your Auto Fraud Caseload

Session 3: Take or Pass: Vetting the Potential Client and the Case

Session 4: Math for Auto Fraud Attorneys

Session 5: Defending the Defenders: Representing and Protecting Servicemembers

Session 6: Win Your Case Through Written Discovery: Advanced Discovery Topics

Session 7: How to Prepare Your Case for Arbitration

Session 8: Finding and Getting That Money: Judgment, Awards, and Locating Sources of Payment

 

Class Action Workshop: Challenges and Opportunities for Class Actions

Session 1: Ramirez and State Courts

Session 2: Emerging Areas in Class Actions

Session 3: Arbitrations: Beat It

Session 4: Class Mediation – Using Settlement Counsel to Achieve the Best Outcome

Session 5: Ethics of Fee Petitions

Session 6: Privacy Claims and Data Breaches

Session 7: Arbitrations: Embracing It

Session 8: Class Action Damages Through Expert Testimony

Session 9: Class Trials

Session 10: Hottest, and Worst, Plaintiff Class Actions of 2022-2023

 

Spring Training  2023            

 

Business of Consumer Law: Planning for Profitability

Session 1: Where Am I Headed? Figuring Out Your Big Picture Business Goals (no written materials)

Session 2: Ethics Session: Staffing Your Firm to Achieve Your Big Picture Goals

Session 3: Trade-Offs and Challenges: Virtual vs. In-Person (no written materials)

Session 4: Intake: Picking and Finding the Right Client Avatar for Your Firm (no written materials)

Session 6: Different Types of Marketing

Session 7: Case Study of a Successful Marketing Plan and Budget

Session 8: How to Get Paid

 

FCRA: Building a Winning Case

Session 1: How to Obtain Evidence of the Violations in an FCRA Case

Session 2: How to Get Evidence to Prove Willfulness

Session 3: Establishing Economic and Credit Damages Caused by the FCRA Violations

Session 4: Proving Emotional Distress and Reputational Damages Caused by the FCRA Violations

Session 5: Ethics Session: How to Ethically Market Your Firm (no written materials)

Session 6: Factors to Consider in Case Valuation

Session 7: Case Study of Case Valuation

Session 8: Avoiding Bad Outcomes

 

FDCPA in the 21st Century

Session 1: Issue Spotting Claims in Light of Regulation F

Session 2: Issue Spotting FDCPA Claims in the Mortgage Context

Session 3: Dealing with Challenges Associated with Medical Debt

Session 4: Hear from the Defense Side: Addressing Cutting Edge Defenses

Session 6: Discovery Strategy for FDCPA Claims

Session 7: eDiscovery and How Debt Collectors Manage Their Data

Session 8: FDCPA Developments