How about the Legal Education Support Society?
Not exact matches
ICFE DCCS ® Independent Study Guide Table of Contents Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to oversee debt collectors Collection agencies and junk debt buyers - Mini-Miranda What to do if a debtor is contacted
about past debts Sample cease and desist letter Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Summary from the CFPB Debt that is covered Debt Collectors that are covered Debt Collectors that are NOT covered Debt Collection for Active and Veteran Military Personnel Communications connected with debt collection When, where and with who communications is permitted Ceasing Communication with the consumer Communicating with third parties Validation of debts Prohibited Practices: Harassing or abusive Practices False or misleading representations Unfair Practices Multiple debts
Legal Actions by debt collectors Furnishing certain deceptive forms Civil liability Defenses CFPB / FTC staff's commentary on the FDCPA Common debt collector violations
How to document a collector's abusive behavior What to do if a collector breaks the law
How collectors are trained - examples of collector training courses FDCPA Sample Exam from ACA for Collectors
How collectors are using Social Medias in collections Dealing with creditors and third party collectors Other factors for a debtor in collection: Credit reports and scores Reviewing credit reports with debtors - Permissible uses Rules
about credit decisions and notices Debtor
education about credit reports and FICO scores Specialty Report Providers Rules to protect consumers in credit card debt
How to read and understand credit reports
How to make changes or dispute accuracy Freezing Credit Files FCRA / FACTA Provisions of ID Theft victims
How credit scoring works The Credit Card Accountability and Disclosure Act Credit Rules CFPB rules establish strong protections for homeowners facing foreclosure Other Resources
«What LawWithoutWalls has done is opened my mind to the idea that people around the world have ideas
about how legal services and
education can be approached differently,» says DeStefano.
Canadian Lawyer 4Students speaks with a first - year Osgoode Hall Law School student
about how the picketing is affecting his
legal education.
In this section, you will find research reports
about public
legal education issues, including such topics as
how to deliver PLE effectively and
how to perform needs assessment in PLE.
In the interim, the initial report of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission had been released, a conversation was starting on campuses
about how to take the report's recommendations and bring them in to
legal education, and Canadians were talking
about the issue of the rights of First Nations people and their role in this country.
The second part of the conference was a discussion
about how to integrate digital lawyering into a law school curriculum so that future
legal professionals will have the necessary
education to serve their clients using technology.
While I was at law school, I remember hearing time and time again from junior lawyers that it was not necessary to worry
about what electives one took or
how much one learned or did not learn during those three years of
legal education as «the real learning, unless you are planning on pursuing a career in academia, starts once you enter the workplace.»
Lawyers are already asking
how many continuing
legal education (CLE) credits they'll earn and now you're
about to dive into the CLE accreditation morass.
A couple of months back, I reflected in a blog post on
how LPO has been influencing the trajectory of the
legal profession and
legal education, but what
about the trajectory of LPO itself?
I promised at the beginning of this podcast that I want to talk
about our member benefit initiative, just as voting and veterans and
education are very basic, that's
how we feel
about member benefits, and we are going to be looking back to basics that the ABA does incredible things for access to justice for the
legal community, for the court system, but we are going to also do incredible things for our members and potential members.
LawNow is an Edmonton - based magazine published by the fantastic Centre for Public
Legal Education Alberta and aimed, at least partially, at public school teachers and youth that talks
about how law relates to every day life.
When lawyers are no longer the gatekeepers to
legal education they may have to start thinking
about how they can become the keymasters, who can provide clients access to the tools and resources they need.
Back in October, I wrote
about the impact the U.S. News and World Report rankings continue to have on on the behavior of law schools and
how many academics now believe the tail of USNWR rankings is wagging the dog of
legal education.
This blawg provides information
about how to prepare for the bar examination and commentary
about related issues in
legal education.
Pepperdine University law professor Derek T. Muller takes his blog's name from a speech given during the Federal Convention of 1787, and he writes
about how our democracy is reflected in election law,
legal education, the U.S. Supreme Court and other organs of government.
Inspired by Lon Fuller, who, in Rod Macdonald's words, «saw law as a human project, a human accomplishment, and a human aspiration that emerges from ongoing patterns of human interaction and the reciprocal adjustment of human expectation,» he conceived
legal education as being, at its core, learning
how «to attend to the complexities of human beings in interaction with each other,» stating that we should teach
how law could be «a facilitator of human interaction» and «
about finding social outcomes that help solve human problems [rather than] perfecting abstract concepts to solve
legal puzzles.»
The release of the Carnegie Report1 and Best Practices for
Legal Education: A Vision and a Road Map2 has brought
about a surge in scholarship examining the way we teach and
how we can improve our students» law school experience.
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How Credit Rules (and Ruins) Our Lives: What Every Attorney Should Know
About Consumer Reports, Identity Theft, and Impermissible Disclosure Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act,» MoreLaw Minneapolis Continuing
Legal Education Seminar, Minneapolis, MN, April 2014.
A guide to
legal information
about your rights and responsibilities, community
education events, and
how to get help in Washington state.
Baer recently sat down with Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers to talk
about legal education and
how law schools can better prepare students...
Guest Darin Fox talks
about how he sees technology functioning in
legal education including the program he oversees at the University of Oklahoma.
The American Bar Association Section Of
Legal Education and Admissions To The Bar,
Legal Education and Professional Development - An Educational Continuum, Report Of The Task Force On Law Schools And The Profession: Narrowing The Gap (1992)(MacCrate Report) was issued in 1992 by a Task Force created by the American Bar Association Section of
Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar «to look at public and professional expectations of what lawyers are and ought to be and what skills and values they need to fulfill those expectations, and
how they go
about acquiring those skills and values during and after law school.»
Prof. Perlman, who heads the LPTI Institute, reminded the audience that very little has changed
about legal education since the days of Christopher Langdell: «We still train law students to look backward, for bespoke
legal work; that's not
how most
legal services are delivered today.»
This question is being asked more broadly in Law Schools as
legal academics and lawyers bring design principles to the question of where and
how people access
legal education, where and
how people learn
about law, and where and
how people solve the problems that matter most in their lives.
There are clearly lots of people who are very invested in making the law seem more complex and difficult than it really is, and these are often the same people who tend to infantilize the public and speak in patronizing tones
about how we must protect people from poorly trained lawyers and that the best way to do that is to regulate
legal education — hence, the ABA's ridiculous accreditation requirements.
«Law schools» teaching is good grounding, but we need to think
about how we take this into the real world,» said Headon of the many of the report's 22 recommendations related to
legal education and training.
To see these five family law publications and learn more
about how LSS helps build public
legal education, see the post 32,140 reasons that PLEI makes a difference in BC!
Legal custody is the right for a parent or guardian to make decisions
about how the child is raised, for example, the kind of
education the child receives, the religion he or she has, and the health care he or she receives.
COAG has... agreed to invest in community
legal education to ensure Indigenous Australians are informed
about their
legal rights, know
how to access assistance and are encouraged to report incidents of violence and abuse.