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Monday April 29
2024
 How Fair Credit Reporting Laws Can Supplement Your Tenant Rights Practice

Rent payment reporting businesses market their services to both landlords and tenants. To landlords, these businesses market their services as tactics to pressure tenants into paying rent on time on the threat of negative impacts to credit scores. To tenants, their services are marketed as a way to improve credit scores by making on-time payments.

 

How can you help your client protect their rights to an accurate credit report and fight back when their landlord and debt collectors use credit reports in deceptive or unfair ways? This training will cover the different credit reports out there (it’s not just the Big 3!), how to dispute inaccurate information on these reports (such as incorrectly reporting rent as late or inflating the amount of rent), how to handle landlord threats of adverse reporting, and how to spot potential violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and other consumer protection statutes that can provide ways for your client to fight back.

 

Instructors:

- Ahmad Keshavarz (he/him) - Principle - The Law Office of Ahmad Keshavarz

- Emma Caterine (she/her) - Partner - The Law Office of Ahmad Keshavarz

 

Moderator:

- Mary McCune (she/her) - Senior Staff Attorney - Consumer Law Unit - Manhattan Legal Services

 

CLE Credits:

- Areas of Professional Practice - 2.0

 

CLE Suitability:

- Content appropriate for both experienced and new attorneys.

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  • When
    Monday, April 29, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • CLE Credits
    Areas of Professional Practice: 2.00
  • Format
    Fully Interactive Videoconference
  • Practice Area(s)
    Consumer/Bankruptcy Law
    Housing
  • Price: $0
  • Materials
    Contains 1 training item(s)

About the Faculty

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    AHMAD KESHAVARZ (Speaker)

    Ahmad (he, him) established his law firm, The Law Office of Ahmad Keshavarz in 2000. His practice is devoted entirely to consumer protection. The large majority of his practice is devoted filing FDCPA lawsuits holding debt collectors accountable for executing on vacated or sewer service judgments; seizing exempt social security or unemployment benefits; suing tenants for rent not owed; or suing family members of nursing home residents for nursing home debt they do not owe. Along with legal services co-counsel, Ahmad obtained the historic decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arias v. Gutman, Mintz, Baker & Sonnenfeldt LLP et al., 875 F.3d 128 (2017) which held that debt collectors unduly prolonging debt collection legal proceedings violated the FDCPA. Ahmad and his law partner Emma Caterine also bring suit for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Electronic Fund Transfer Act. Ahmad Keshavarz has a B.A. with Honors from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, and a Masters in Public Policy from the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs.
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    Mary McCune (Moderator)

    Mary McCune has worked as a public interest attorney for over twenty years. She is currently a senior staff attorney in the consumer law unit at Manhattan Legal Services, Inc. Over her lengthy career, Ms. McCune has represented low income people in many practice areas, including housing law, family law, benefits law as well as consumer law. She has litigated social justice issues in federal, state and city courts.