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Sylvia Bolos
Sylvia Bolos is a Partner of Consumer Attorneys since 2022. Prior to joining Consumer Attorneys, and in her role as Senior Counsel, she litigated a full suite of Fair Credit Reporting Act cases during her tenure with Berger Montague PC.
Prior to that, she litigated a myriad of different consumer protection cases as Senior Associate with Lyngklip & Associates. During her time with Lynglip & Associates, she also co-founded Insight, LLC, a consumer protection consulting firm, designed to train and coach other consumer protection attorneys from across the country. She has also served as General Counsel to a multi-million dollar corporation in the telecommunications space.
Sylvia earned her Bachelors of Science in Accounting from Oakland University in 2004. After spending a number of years in the private accounting and government account sectors, working for the Department of Defense for a number of years, she earned her law degree from Wayne State University Law School in 2013.
Sylvia has successfully litigated consumer protection cases with claims arising mostly under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, but also under the Truth in Lending Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Electronic Funds Transfer Act, and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, among others. She has also served as a committee chair on the Federal Bar Association for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Speaking engagements:
- NACA Spring Training 2024 / Atlanta, Georgia
- April 11 and April 12, 2024
- Co-Chair of FCRA Track Spring Training Program
- Speaker at the “Women’s Breakfast”
- NACA Spring Training 2024 / Atlanta, Georgia
- April 11, 2024 / Plaintiff’s Story: Direct Testimony
- Objective: How to tell Plaintiff’s story to the jury
- Consumer Rights Litigation Conference/ Chicago, Illinois
- October 2023
- Objective: Fair Credit Reporting Act Track Panel Topic: FCRA Marketing, Intake, and Client Development
- NACA Spring Training 2023 / New Orleans, Louisiana
- May 4, 2023 / How to obtain evidence of the violations in an FCRA case
- Objective: Obtaining admissible evidence in support of your violations
- NACA Spring Training 2022 / Phoenix, Arizona
- May 12, 2022 / Intake and Case Selection
- Objective: In light of the Ramirez decision, learn to select the best FCRA cases to litigate
- KPRC 2 NBC Media
- April 2024
- Interview: The Harms of Credit Card Rewards Programs and Buy Now Pay Later Loans.
- Why CFPB is looking into credit card rewards programs (click2houston.com)
- KPRC 2 NBC Media
- May 2024
- Interview: The Pitfalls of Buy Now, Pay Later Loans.
- Speaker at National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) Consumer Rights Litigation Conference (CRLC), The ABC’s of the FCRA (November 2019)
- Speaker at the Federal Bar Association of the Eastern District of Michigan New Lawyer’s Seminar, Consumer Protection and What Everyone Needs to Know(December 2019)
- Speaker at National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) Consumer Rights Litigation Conference (CRLC), Recovering Judgements against Buffalo Collectors (and Beyond)!(October 2018)
- Speaker at the Federal Bar Association of the Eastern District of Michigan New Lawyer’s Seminar, Consumer Protection and What Everyone Needs to Know (December 2018)
- Speaker at committee on Regional Training (CORT) Consumer Law Training, How to Litigate and Supersize on FDCPA Claims (April 26, 2018)
- Speaker at National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Conference, Technology for Consumer Attorneys (March 19, 2018)
- Speaker at National Legal Assistants Association (NALA) Webinar, Consumer Law: FRCP 26(a)(1) Initial Disclosures (December 7, 2017)
- Speaker at National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Conference, Getting Paid: The Story of the $100k Default Judgment (February 23, 2017)
- National Consumer Law Center Spring Training Conference, Women’s Breakfast Opening Remarks: The Challenges Faced by Female Attorneys Balancing Life, Children, and Career Anticipated (April 2024)
Authored the following:
- Five Steps on How to Collect Your Judgment from a Recalcitrant Defendant, State Bar of Michigan Consumer Law Section Newsletter, June 2017, Volume 21, No. 2.
Volunteered at the following:
- State Bar of Michigan, Professionalism in Action, roundtable discussion leader. Wayne State University Law School, January 19, 2018.