News & Events

Ethical Issues in Consumer Financial Services

Location:  Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Date: August 9, 2010

Katrina Christakis and Tomio Narita (Simmonds & Narita LLP), co-chairs of the Debt Collection Practices and Bankruptcy Subcommittee of the Consumer Financial Services Committee, Business Law Section of the ABA, host a panel to discuss ethical issues in consumer financial services litigation at the ABA’s Annual Meeting on August 9, 2010, in San Francisco, California.

Topics to be covered include:

• The use of targeted advertising by consumer attorneys
• Debt settlement by attorneys
• Multi-Jurisdictional Practice and the unauthorized practice of law
• Associating with non-attorneys, and referral services
• Meaningful involvement and related ethical issues
• Lawyer regulation by consumer protection statutes