Identifying Potential FDCPA Claims

You’re a bankruptcy lawyer. Your client received a nasty letter from a debt collector, forcing them to your door. You’re an estate planning (insert unrelated area of practice here) attorney. Your sister is being harassed at work by a debt collector. Your mother got a call from a debt collector looking for your brother. Can anything be done? Seasoned consumer attorney advocates Laura Mann and Joseph Jones will highlight various ways to identify violations of the Federal Fair Debt Collections Practices Act that may be lurking in your caseload and guide you how to cultivate those violations into compensation for your clients, increased revenue for you and systemic curtailing of those violations by debt collectors.

Learning Objectives:

I.     An overview of the FDCPA

II.    Understanding the purpose of the Act

III.   Who is a debt collector subject to the Act?

IV.   What types of activities are governed by the Act?

V.    How does one pursue violations?

VI.   What cases are worth pursuing from a practical standpoint?

VII.  What are the available remedies?

VIII. Resources, guides, links and helpful information

Program Director: Sigalle Barness