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BNPC Attorneys Explain Merchant Cash Advances

BN Lawyers

Barbara Barron and Stephen Sather co-authored Why MCA? Adding Havoc to Chaos in Vol. 33, Issue No. 3 (July/Aug./Sept. 2019) of Commercial Law World Magazine. The article explains the relatively new phenomenon of merchant cash advances, which have been described as the merchant to merchant equivalent of consumer pay-day lending. Ms. Barron & Mr.

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Third Circuit Doubles Down on §1692f Violations

Consumer Financial Services Law

By Anna Claire Turpin and Caren Enloe The Third Circuit recently doubled-down on its decision in Douglass v. Convergent Outsourcing , 765 F.3d 299 (3 rd Cir. 2014). In Douglass , the Third Circuit held that displaying an internal collection agency reference number through a glassine envelope window violated §1692f(8). In DiNaples v. MRS BPO, LLC , 934 F.3d 275 (3d Cir.

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Has Your Freelancing Business Has Been Scammed? Red Flags to Look For

Credits Inc

In today's world, freelancers are abundant. From photographers, graphic designers, writers, and video editors, more and more people are starting their own business doing what they love over the traditional nine-to-five. And who can blame them? It comes with some great perks. You get to set your own hours, travel whenever it suits you, and be your own boss.

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Factory Belt: The Biggest Hidden Efficiency In Every Law Office

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

Quick: What are the two things that lawyers do the most ? If you answered: respond to email and create documents, you’d be right.? Yet, even as lawyers spend more time creating documents (pushing electronic paper) than anyone else, they’re still using antiquated methods for building documents from templates. Attorneys are very good at creating specific documents for clients from existing templates.?

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

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Texas Super Lawyers Recognizes Three Barron Newburger Attorneys

BN Lawyers

Manuel Newburger, Barbara Barron and Stephen Sather were each named to the 2019 edition of Texas Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters publication. Mr. Newburger, who has been listed continuously since 2005, was honored as a Top Rated Class Action & Mass Torts Attorney. Ms. Barron and Mr. Sather were both recognized as Top Rated Business Bankruptcy Attorneys.

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