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Services from Barron, Newburger, Sinsley & Wier, PLLC, Austin, Texas

Manuel H. (Manny) Newburger is a nationally known attorney in the area of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. In addition to handling private and class action consumer and commercial litigation, he consults and testifies as an expert in Fair Debt cases across the United States, and he has been retained by collection agencies, debt buyers, creditors, and law firms to negotiate or assist in the defense of such cases in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. He has been quoted in articles on the Act in the National Law Journal, Lawyers Weekly USA, Collection & Credit Risk, and The Texas Lawyer, and in 1991, he testified at the last oversight hearing on the FDCPA. He has represented the Commercial Law League of America as an amicus curiae in Heintz v. Jenkins, 514 U.S. 291, 115 S.Ct. 1489 (1995), the only FDCPA case to date to reach the Supreme Court, and in White v. Goodman, 200 F.3d 1016 (7th Cir. 2000), and Riviere v. Banner Chevrolet, Inc., 184 F.3d 457 (5th Cir. 1999). Mr. Newburger has given numerous continuing legal education presentations around the United States on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and through Fair Debt Consultants, L.L.C. he conducts private FDCPA compliance trainings for creditors, collection agencies, debt buyers, and law firms. He has been admitted to practice before the Texas Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Seventh Circuits, all four United States District Courts for the State of Texas, and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and he has been certified as a specialist in consumer and commercial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

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Barbara M. Barron is the co-author of Fair Debt Collection Practices: Federal and State Law and Regulation. In addition to insolvency work and class action consumer and commercial litigation she, too, regularly assists clients with FDCPA compliance issues. Her B.A. magna cum laude with honors in economics) from Barnard college and M.B.A. from Columbia University give her a strong background in business issues, and she also assists collection industry clients in the area of business planning and corporate structuring. Ms. Barron has been admitted to practice before the Texas Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, all four United States District Courts for the State of Texas, and the United States Tax Court. Ms. Barron has been an author and speaker at continuing legal education programs in Texas and other states, and she is a co-author of the bankruptcy chapter for the Texas Collections Manual published by the State Bar of Texas. She has been certified as a mediator in Texas by the American Arbitration Association, but she is not certified as a specialist by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

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