Consumer Law Lawyers and Attorneys

Consumer law attorneys represent people against businesses: debt collection harassment, credit report errors, identity theft, deceptive advertising and sales practices, auto fraud and lemon law claims, predatory lending, and abusive loan servicing.

Several of the governing statutes shift attorney fees onto the losing business and provide statutory damages, which is why cases that look too small to litigate are often taken on without an upfront fee.

Before you hire

• Keep everything: letters, voicemails, call logs, contracts, repair orders and screenshots. These cases are won on documentation of a pattern.
• Dispute credit report errors in writing with the bureau first — the statutory claim often depends on that step having been taken.
• Ask whether the attorney handles the claim under federal or state law, and whether fees are recoverable from the defendant.

Collections, foreclosure defence and bankruptcy address the same problems from other directions.