The Volunteer Lawyers Network helps thousands of low-income Minnesotans every year, providing free legal services to Minnesotans who cannot afford to hire a lawyer. I have been volunteering with VLN since I graduated from law school in 2003, and I joined the board of directors in 2010. VLN named me its Volunteer of the Year [...]
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently announced new measures aimed at helping students make better decisions when borrowing money for higher education. The new disclosures and tools will be helpful, but on Consumer Law & Policy Blog, I wondered how they will help make education more affordable. Kara McGuire, of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, quoted me [...]
Each year at its annual Benefactors’ Pro Bono Picnic, the Volunteer Lawyers Network names a “Volunteer of the Year.” This year, they chose me! I’m honored and humbled. VLN is an organization I care deeply about, and I’ve tried to do what I can to help it succeed, both as a member of the board [...]
Every year, lawyers nominate their peers to the annual Super Lawyers list of outstanding attorneys. They also nominate up-and-coming attorneys to the list of Rising Stars.
This year, I made the 2011 Rising Star list!
The Minnesota District Judges Association is holding its annual retreat in Brainerd this week. Since debt collection and foreclosures big issues that judges deal with every day, they invited Sam, along with real estate attorney Dan Tyson, to talk about these consumer issues. Sam was thrilled to get a chance to talk directly to judges [...]
The Star Tribune’s lead story yesterday discussed the massive debt buyer lawsuit industry, especially in Minnesota. A focus in the article was the dire consequences of debt buyer lawsuits for consumers, even when debt buyers screw up, compared with the lack of real accountability for debt buyers when their claims are bogus. “When consumers make [...]
This week, Sam was elected to the board of directors of the Volunteer Lawyers Network. VLN helps people of limited means get help with their legal problems at no cost. Sam has been involved with VLN for years. We generally have at least one VLN case or project at all times. Recently, Sam helped VLN [...]
Our client was the victim of identity theft on a Sears account, but debt buyer MRC Receivables Corporation hired Messerli & Kramer to sue our client, anyway. Our client explained to Messerli & Kramer that the card was not hers, but never served a formal answer. As a result, in 2009, Messerli & Kramer, P.A. [...]
River City Financial, LLC, is a Minnesota debt buyer. The debt collection law firm of Messerli & Kramer, P.A., tried to start a lawsuit for River City Financial against our client back in 2001. But Messerli & Kramer never filed the lawsuit—at least not until 2007, six years later, when it finally asked for a [...]
Over the weekend, personal finance columnist Kara McGuire wrote about the Credit CARD Act of 2009, which takes effect on February 22nd. Although there is much good in the bill, she cautioned consumers about some things not in the bill. She quoted Sam Glover in the article: Minneapolis consumer attorney Sam Glover, who blogs at [...]