The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Housing and Consumer Law Groups are hosting a CLE training program entitled Legal Aid Attorney Guide to Collecting Attorney Fees in Consumer Cases. The program was originally presented in Philadelphia on November 22 and will be presented in Pittsburgh on December 3 and in Harrisburg on December 8. 

The program is intended to provide instruction on where attorney fees might be available and how to recover those fees. This is especially relevant since LSC-funded programs are again permitted to recover such fees. The program will also cover some consumer law fundamentals in the topics outlined below in the Tentative Program listing.

The chief presenter for the program is Cary Flitter, an attorney in private practice who specializes in representing consumers in consumer law issues in both individual and class actions.

Mr. Flitter is on the adjunct faculty at Widener University School of Law and Temple University Beasley School of Law. He is one of the principal authors of Pennsylvania Consumer Law (Carolyn Carter, editor) and is a contributor to NCLC's Consumer Class Actions (5th ed.). He has also served on the board of the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA).

CLE Credit:

The program has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for the number of hours of substantive law, practice and procedure CLE credit indicated below.

Dates and Times:

Philadelphia:
November 22, 2010, 1:30 pm-4:00 pm
Philadelphia Bar Association
1101 Market Street, 11th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
CLE Credits: 2.5 Substantive

Pittsburgh:
December 3, 2010, 9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. (lunch following session)
Koppers Bldg. Conf. Center; Grant Room, 9th floor
436 Seventh Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA
CLE Credits: 3.0 Substantive
(At this location, Eileen Yanking of NLSA will review other cases in which legal aid attorneys can seek fees.)

Harrisburg:
December 8, 2010, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon
Dauphin County Bar Association
213 North Front Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101-1493
CLE Credits: 2.5 Substantive

Cost:

This session is free for legal aid advocates, as well as other non-profit advocates not seeking CLE credits. For all others the cost is:

• Philadelphia and Harrisburg: $150 (2.5 CLE Credits)

• Pittsburgh: $180 (3.0 CLE Credits) 

Tentative Program:

• Statutory attorney fees - Law and Practice pointers

• Fair Debt Collection Act - Law and Developments

• Truth in Lending Act

• Fair Credit Reporting Act

• Wrongful Repossessions
   

Registration:

Philadelphia:
To register for the Philadelphia program please send an email to Kerry Smith (ksmith@clsphila.org) at Community Legal Services listing your name, title, organization, mailing address and email address and telephone number.

If you are not a legal aid/non-profit advocate, please mail a check in the amount of $150 payable to Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, Inc. along with a cover letter containing the information listed above to:

Kerry Smith, Esquire
Community Legal Services
1424 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102

Pittsburgh:
To register for the Pittsburgh program please complete and forward the registration form and any applicable fees (Check payable to Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, Inc.) to:

Mary Ann Troper-Malley
Neighborhood Legal Services Association
928 Penn Avenue.
Pittsburgh, PA. 15222
FAX: 412-355-0168

Registration Form

Harrisburg:
To register for the Harrisburg program please contact Fran Weisinger at Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, Inc. by email (fweisinger@palegalaid.net) listing your name, title, organization, mailing address, email address and telephone number, or by telephone at (800) 322-7572 or (717) 236-9486, ext. 207.

If you are not a legal aid/non-profit advocate, please mail a check in the amount of $150 payable to Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, Inc. along with a cover letter containing the information listed above to:

Fran Weisinger, Executive Secretary
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, Inc.
118 Locust Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101