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Money, Credit, and the Law – Know Your Rights

September 17, 2009

That’s the title of a valuable new video narrated by Professor Richard Alderman, director of the Center for Consumer Law at the University of Houston Law Center.
The video, consisting of easily digestible short chapters, provides help managing personal finances, dealing with credit problems and debt collectors, responding when sued by a creditor, seeking credit counseling, [...]

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National Consumer Rights Litigation Conference in Portland, Oregon

October 20, 2008

Hello from Portland! I am in Portland all week for the National Consumer Law Center’s annual National Consumer Rights Litigation Conference. (The conference starts on Friday, but I came early with my wife to take in Portland.)
I will be presenting on a panel with the Americans for Fairness in Lending on getting out the message [...]

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Dollar Duo: Textbook savings and more

August 25, 2008

New vidcast from Star Tribune columnists Kara McGuire and John Ewoldt: Dollar Duo: Textbook savings and more | StribTV

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Special interests vs. you

July 2, 2008

At Public Citizen’s Watchdog Blog, Graham Steele & David Arkush point out the problematic tendency of the press to treat issues of civil justice as clashes of special interests. Insurance companies vs. trial lawyers. Doctors vs. trial lawyers. Debt collectors vs. trial lawyers.
Always somebody vs. trial lawyers. Not “insurance companies vs. patients” or “debt collectors [...]

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