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Code Red: Why Lawyers Don’t Need to Code

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

I mean, don’t get me wrong, lawyers can code, if they want to; but, they don’t have to. There’s a prevailing argument in legal tech circles over whether lawyers should be coders. This argument is often misconstrued to mean that lawyers should be developing their own software. And, that’s an entirely different thing. It’s sort of like making the assumption that the guy who tinkers with an old Corvette on the weekend should launch an automotive corporation.

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Sixth Circuit Doubles Down Despite Impending U.S. Supreme Court Decision

Consumer Financial Services Law

By Caren Enloe and Anna Claire Turpin Just four days after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Obduskey v. McCarthy & Holthus LLP regarding whether non-judicial foreclosures qualify as debt collection under the FDCPA, the Sixth Circuit doubled down on its position that non-judicial foreclosures are debt collection. Building on its 2013 decision in Glazer v.

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CFPB Issues First Complaint Snapshot Under Kraninger

Consumer Financial Services Law

For the first time in over a year, the CFPB has issued a Complaint Snapshot. A practice started by Cordray in 2015, the report is a high level snapshot of trends in consumer complaints and provides a summary of the volume of complaints by product category and by state. While the Complaint Snapshot issued by Kraninger’s office differs slightly in content from the reports issued under Cordray and does not promise to be a regular occurrence, it provides excellent content that will allow financial s