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Bankruptcy News Briefs 1/23

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Bold Changes in Regulatory Trajectory? – A Look at the First Days of the Trump Presidency

Oregon Court Rules in Favor of Collection Agency On Letter Clarity

Supreme Court To Decide Whether Financing Company Collecting Debts Is A “Debt Collector” Under The FDCPA

Trump Names FCC Chairman Who Has Been Critical of Former Leadership

Consumer Credit Default Rates Increase in December

U.S. Departments of Education, Treasury Sign MOU to Help Student Loan Borrowers

Navient CEO Jack Remondi: CFPB is more interested in filing lawsuits than fixing student loan servicing

Payment Processing Marketer Seeks Sanctions Against CFPB

Student Debt Crisis Made Worse by Loan Servicers, Regulators Say

2016 Brought Largest Foreclosure Decline on Record

Upcoming NACBA Events

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Join us in celebrating 25 years of NACBA on May 4th-7th in Orlando, Florida at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort. Visit NACBA25 for all the details on speakers, sessions, hotel reservations, registration and more!

Register today for the Early Bird Rate that ends March 3rd, 2017 for savings!

Save the Date! New NACBA Webinar in March

What to do: Post HAMP for Mortgage Borrower Clients
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2017, 3:00 PM Eastern to 4:00 PM Eastern.
Presented by: Marc Dann Esq., and Bobby Rivera Esq.
Registration will be open soon

Receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

In honor of NACBA’s 25th Anniversary, we want to reward you with a $25 Amazon Gift Card! Introduce a new member to NACBA and we will send you $25 Amazon Gift Card. Not only will YOU receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card but the NEW MEMBER will also receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card! Check out the Requirements and start referring today!

Renew Your NACBA Membership

We want you to have access and the member rate to all of NACBA’s exciting upcoming events in 2017, especially our 25 year celebration at the Annual Convention. Take a moment today to Renew your membership or if your not a member of NACBA there is no better time to Join!

#NACBA25 Highlight!

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Friday, May 5th 2017

8:45 AM-10:00 AM

Think like a Champion! Attend NACBA’s Opening Keynote!

“The Champion’s Code: Building Relationships Through Life Lesson of Integrity and Accountability From the Sports World to the Business World”

NACBA is excited to confirm Ross Bernstein, the best selling author of nearly 50 books, is an award-winning peak-performance hall of fame business speaker who has spent the better part of the past 20 years studying the DNA of championship teams. Ross and his books have been featured on thousands of television and radio programs including CNN, CBS This Morning, FOX News, Bloomberg, ESPN, as well as in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today & Maxim Magazine.

You don’t have to be a sports enthusiast to act like a champion.“The Champion’s Code: Building Relationships Through Life Lessons of Integrity and Accountability from the Sports World to the Business World,” not only illustrates what it takes to become the best of the best, it also explores the fine line between cheating and gamesmanship in sports as it relates to values and integrity in the workplace.

Ross Bernstein

Ross Bernstein is an award-winning peak performance business speaker who’s keynoted conferences on four continents for audiences as small as 10 and as large as 10,000. As a working member of the media in his home state of Minnesota, Ross has a unique behind the scenes access to all of the local sports franchises in the area, including the Vikings, Twins, Timberwolves, Wild and Gophers. As such, he spends lots of his time in dugouts, club houses, locker rooms, and press boxes — and it’s here where Ross has met and interviewed thousands of professional athletes over the years. Ross and his wife Sara have a 12 year old daughter and presently reside in Apple Valley, MN.

Bankruptcy News Briefs 1/18

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Midland Oral Argument Transcript

The CFPB Should Be a Bipartisan Commission

Number of retirees with student loan debt quadrupled in last decade

Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Collection of Expired Debts

Rising Default Rates Not Indicative of Economy’s Health

Transfer On Death Accounts And Deeds vs. Living Trust

Financial Regulatory Reform in the Trump Administration

FDCPA Case Law Review for December 2016

Another View on Presidential Authority to Remove CFPB Director Cordray

The Myth of the Medical Bankruptcy

Upcoming NACBA Events

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Register today for the Early Bird Rate that ends March 3rd, 2017 for savings!

Save the Date! New NACBA Webinar in March

Receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Renew Your NACBA Membership

#NACBA25 Highlight

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Thursday, May 4th 5:00-5:50 PM

Make Marketing Work For You & Your Clients!

Join Chelsey Lambert as she discusses, “They’re Not Buying What I’m Selling: Marketing is Fun When It’s About Helping Others.” Marketing is important to the success of your law firm, but learning how to effectively market to your clients will not only save you time and money, but give them a clear picture of what you can offer. In this session you will learn how to:

How to build a marketing plan.
The TWO main jobs of marketing.
The right marketing for your business … choosing the right kind of marketing for where you are.
Funnel management

Make an impact on your firm and get potential clients to start buying what you’re selling!

Chelsey Lambert

How To Manage A Small Law Firm
VP Marketing

With over a decade of experience in the legal space, Chelsey is a passionate and seasoned small law firm expert. A technology fanatic, author, and CLE accredited speaker, Chelsey is driven to help attorneys understand the components of their practice and how the right processes, skills training and marketing can impact their business, client relationships and bottom line. So Chelsey teaches every chance she can get. Delivering fresh, focused education, tailored to address the challenges and concerns of today’s practicing attorney.

In her words; the legal space has changed, and will continue to move at a rapid pace, despite regulatory efforts or the confines of a paper system. Why? Because consumers are driving the change, and she believes that attorneys who are properly educated and equipped to keep up, will not only survive but ride the crest of this wave to the top.

Bankruptcy News Briefs 1/17

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CFPB Releases Report on Student Loans Across Older Demographics

SCOTUS to Hear Important FDCPA Creditor Exemption Case

ACA Submits Letter to FCC Urging It to Revise Misleading Consumer Alert

FTC Cracking Down on Dishonest Payday

CFPB Complaint Portal – Analysis of Coming Enhancements

Defendant in Enforcement Action Punches Back – Files for Sanctions Against CFPB

New York Court Rules in Favor of Passive Debt Buyer

Post-Petition Transfers: Sixth Circuit Opines on 11 U.S.C. § 542 versus § 549

Ninth Circuit Holds Debtor Must Pay Default Interest Rate in Order to Cure Under Bankruptcy Plan

How Will the Court’s CFPB Ruling Affect Lending?

Student loan debt owed by Americans over 60 skyrocketing

Consumers say debt collectors defy requests to stop calling

Supreme Court to hear Santander debt collection dispute

Will Court Ruling Bring Changes to the CFPB

Upcoming NACBA Events

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Register today for the Early Bird Rate that ends March 3rd, 2017 for savings!

Save the Date! New NACBA Webinar in March

Receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Renew Your NACBA Membership

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Thursday, May 4th, 8:30 AM- 3:30 PM

Register Today!

PRE-CONVENTION SESSION: STUDENT LOAN WORKSHOP

You already know the importance of understanding student loans for your bankruptcy practice. This one-day, learning intense workshop will cover the basics, the complex and many topics in-between. The end result will allow you to make sense of your clients’ student loan situation and how to work it into your bankruptcy practice.

Learn where to find the information needed by your client, how to use that information and how to make mole hills out of mountains. This special pre-convention session will cover administrative discharges, all the repayment plans, the forgiveness plans and how to deal with private student loans as well. Take a look at this lineup:

Presenters:

Joshua Cohen, Esq. The Student Loan Lawyer, West Dover, VT (Bio)
Edward Boltz, Esq. NACBA President & Law Office of John T. Orcutt, Raleigh, NC (Bio)
John Rao, Esq. National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA (Bio)

Agenda (subject to change without notice)

8:30 – 9:00 Student Loan Industry Entities & Their Roles
9:00 – 9:30 Types of Federal Loans
9:30 – 10:00 Administrative Discharges
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 10:45 Default Consequences
10:45 – 11:15 Curing the Default
11:15 – 11:30 Balance Based Repayment
11:30 – 12:30 Lunch on your own
12:30 – 1:00 Income Driven Repayment
1:00 – 1:30 Forgiveness
1:30 – 2:00 Repayment Plans During
2:00 – 2:15 Break
2:15 – 2:45 Private Student Loan Defense (in and out of 13)
2:45 – 3:30 Review of 523a(8) with Analysis.

Please note, Pre-Convention sessions take place before the convention.These sessions are NOT included with your convention registration. These sessions are add-on sessions that take place on Thursday, May 4, 2017 Register Today!