Hot topics from the FTC, including briefings on some of the top cases

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Presentation includes: Hot topics from the FTC, including briefings on some of the top cases case affecting lower income consumers and sharing information about the FTC's multi-lingual consumer and business resources, self-help tools like our refreshed consumer.gov website, Identitytheft.gov, the agency's Consumer Advocate Center program for legal services providers, and consumer alerts on scam topics like renters' issues.

Know about some of the top national consumer protection (FTC) cases affecting lower income consumers
Know about, be able to access, utilize and share information about the FTC's multi-lingual consumer and business resources to help clients spot, avoid, report and recover from scams.
Know about, be able to access, utilize and share free FTC self-help tools like our refreshed consumer.gov website, Identitytheft.gov, the agency's Consumer Advocate Center program for legal services providers.
Keep in touch and learn about the latest scams by signing up for consumer alerts on scam topics like renters' issues.

Margaret Burgess, JD

Attorney

Federal Trade Commission

Margaret Burgess is a Staff Attorney in the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection. She works in the Southeast Region Office in Atlanta, where she enforces consumer protection laws as well as conducting outreach. Before joining the FTC, Margaret worked for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society as an Equal Justice Works Fellow, where she focused on representing clients who had been discriminated against in housing. She also clerked for Judge Amy Totenberg in the Northern District of Georgia and worked at the civil rights firm Relman Colfax in Washington, D.C. She got her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.