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Need to Know About Debt Negotiation and Settlement?

Sawin & Shea

If you’re dealing with debt and considering filing for bankruptcy, it’s a good idea to get professional legal advice on how to handle the proceedings. Credit counseling and debt management agencies may be able to assist you as you work, but with so many untrustworthy schemes out there, how do you know what the right step should be?

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7th Circuit Challenges Whether Plaintiffs Had Standing in Recent District Court Cases

Troutman Sanders

With these holdings, the Seventh Circuit stated that simply alleging a procedural violation, confusion, or annoyance under the FDCPA does not constitute an injury-in-fact and that plaintiffs need to show real harm resulting from their responses to debt collectors’ actions to have Article III standing in federal court. In Bazile v.