This is an unusually packed update with lots of important info--please read to the end!
1. NCLC analysis of many little-known, key consumer law changes created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is found at www.nclc.org/dodd-frank.
2. Three new NCLC treatise revisions: Foreclosures (1146 pp.), Consumer Class Actions (1026 pp.), and Consumer Warranty Law (1136).The Foreclosures volume in particular is an absolute must today. Also just released are SEVEN 2010 supplements:Fair Debt Collection (454 pp.), Collection Actions (236 pp.), Cost of Credit (188 pp.), Credit Discrimination (160 pp.), Automobile Fraud (218 pp), Consumer Banking and Payment Law (222 pp.),and Access to Utility Service (238 pp.). Continued subscription includes free access to updated companion websites. Automatic subscribers have received their updates by now. Others can order by going to www.consumerlaw.org/shop or by calling 617-542-9595.
3. Free Webinars: September 15 at 2pm on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and September 16 at 2pm on consumer auto issues . Contact jhiemenz@nclc.org for this and future webinars.
Go to http://www.nclc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85&Itemid=101 for the 2010 schedule of each webinar series and FREE downloads of PAST webinars
4. The July/August NCLC REPORTS are in the mail :
Bankruptcy and Foreclosures Edition covers 50 HAMP practice pointers and the new bankruptcy rules
Debt Collection & Repo Edition examines new FDCPA rulemaking, new FTC debt settlement rule, mortgage workout letters must comply with FDCPA, threatening to sue without license violates FDCPA, FTC report on debt collection suits
Consumer Credit & Usury Ed. and Deceptive Practices & Warranties Ed. on Dodd-Frank are now on-line at www.nclc.org/dodd-frank (This is a special exception to the rule that NCLC REPORTS are ONLY available in hard copy)
5. Online registration and brochure for the Consumer Rights Litigation Conference now available at www.nclc.org -- This is the consumer law highlight of the year, Nov. 11-14, 2010, at the Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, with over 50 breakout sessions, a Consumer Class Action Symposium, and intensives on mortgage litigation, debt collection defense, and bankruptcy protection for homeowners. Join over 700 colleagues and fabulous speakers. CLE credit. Early registration ends September 10th.
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