NCLC Updates: Practice Tools

1. Free Webinars:  Contact jhiemenz@nclc.org for these and future webinars.  Go to www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/webinar.shtml for the 2010 schedule and  FREE downloads of  PAST webinars

• June 16 :  Resident Ownership of  [Manufactured Home] Communities:  Benefits & Policy Landscape
• June 23:  Health Care Reform & the Aging Population:  How the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act will impact low-income older adults  
• July 15:  Baby, You Can Take My Car: The  Dangers  of Auto Title Loans  

 2. New in NCLC REPORTS:

Consumer Credit & Usury Ed. (March/April):  15 Things Every Attorney Should Know About Reverse Mortgages

 

Bankruptcy & Foreclosures Ed. (March/April):   Important New HAMP Guidelines; Automatic Stay Exception Does Not Apply to Payday Loan EFT;  Increase in Federal Bankruptcy Exemptions

 

3. FDCPA Case Summaries:  summaries of all reported and many unreported FDCPA cases over the last two years, organized by topic, are now available on Fair Debt Collection's Companion Website, in typeset format.  Get a two month jump on the summaries that will appear in the 2010 Supplement.

 

4. New Report on Alternatives to Payday Loans: Stopping the Payday Loan Trap: Alternatives That Work, Ones That Don't is now available for free on NCLC's website. The report surveys over 100 lenders, sets out the criteria for separating affordable loans from false payday alternatives, and attacks the myths used to justify high cost lending.  

 

For more information on National Consumer Law Center practice tools, go to www.nclc.org.

 

 

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