Credit, Debt, and Foreclosure - Consumer Law Basics
This free, four-part consumer debt program provided the knowledge attorneys need to assist low-to-moderate-income clients.
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Consumer Law Basics: Foreclosure Defense & Mortgage Servicing Claims
This webinar will provide an overview of the foreclosure process in MA and basic strategies to defend foreclosures.
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Consumer Law Basics: Medical Debt & Coerced Debt
The first hour of this webinar will cover strategies for helping clients address overwhelming medical debt collections. The second hour will focus on how to identify and begin to help clients facing coerced debt.
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Consumer Law Basics: Debt Defense & Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
This webinar will first provide an overview of debt defense practices including lawyer-of-the-day programs in Massachusetts.
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Digital Library: New Consumer Law Rights Taking Effect in 2024
This article lists federal and state consumer law rights scheduled to go into effect or expire, during the period from December 1, 2023, through January 1, 2025.
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Digital Library: 2023 in Review on the NCLC Digital Library
The NCLC Digital Library keeps you current with authoritative analysis of all of the latest developments in consumer law.
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Digital Library: Widespread FDCPA Violations in Collection of Medical Debt
A November 2023 CFPB report on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) highlights the untapped potential of FDCPA claims where debt collectors collect on medical debt not owed or owed in a lesser amount. The report describes how tens of millions of Americans face medical debt collection—somewhere between 17% and 35% of all adults have…
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What States Can Do to Reduce Property Tax Foreclosures
As homeowners struggle to recover from the pandemic and deal with soaring inflation, some risk losing their homes to a strict and often rapid tax lien foreclosure process.
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15 Blunders in Seeking an Attorney Fee Award
A new NCLC Digital Library article identifies 15 blunders to avoid when seeking a statutory attorney fee award. There are 8 blunders in filling out time records, which must be “bullet-proof.” The remaining mistakes relate to hours that count for statutory fees, evidence supporting an hourly rate, and the presentation to the court justifying the fee award.
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5,000 Practice Aids Free on the NCLC Digital Library
Subscribers to NCLC’s Consumer Law Practice Series should be familiar with the robust tools and features of the new and improved NCLC Digital Library. Perhaps less known to subscribers and non-subscribers alike is that the NCLC Digital Library now provides free to the public well over 5,000 practice items. In addition, verified consumer law community…
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FAQs: Can a Nursing Home Force a Resident’s Family and Friends to Pay the Bill?
Many nursing homes try illegal strategies to frighten family members or friends into paying the bill. Don’t be intimidated.
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Digital Library: Disaster Relief Resources
See free publications from NCLC targeted toward advocates assisting victims of natural disaster.
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