CARLAW II - Street Legal
CARLAW II - Street Legal
ISBN: 978-0-9779501-2-6
January 2008
Hardcover
480 Pages
$49.95 plus
shipping & handling

Advance Praise for
CARLAW II - Street Legal

"Tom Hudson and his group have compiled and edited an extraordinary reference book that auto dealers should covet. The content is generous with actual case histories, analysis and reporting on key cases that affect compliance in the workplace. The reader receives solid examples from Arbitration to Regulation Z - essential for your counsel's library."

Ed Bobit, Publisher
F&I Magazine and Automotive Fleet
Bobit Business Media


"Hudson Cook, LLP has done it again! They have taken topics which may confuse and overwhelm a well-intended person and have broken them down into a fun to read and easy to understand collection of articles. And by updating each topic, they have reminded us all that compliance is an everyday event in a fluid environment. Every Dealer, General Manager, Comptroller, Finance Director, and automotive advisor should read this book or risk becoming one of the examples in a future publication."

Adam Goldfein, Host
of the Nationally Syndicated
Talk Show, AutoScoop - The
Inside to Car Buying

 

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by Thomas B. Hudson and the Lawyers
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Tom Hudson's lively legal wit and wisdom in CARLAW II - Street Legal follows two highly successful texts, CARLAW and The F&I Legal Desk Book. Like the original CARLAW, Street Legal will entertain and inform dealers and laymen alike with engaging stories drawn from actual cases.

Unlike CARLAW, Street Legal features not only Tom's articles, but those of many of the other talented Hudson Cook, LLP lawyers. The result is another wide-ranging tour of the perils of automobile finance and lease litigation and the ways to avoid them. Hudson and the other authors draw on a combined couple of centuries of legal experience. They harness their considerable writing and speaking abilities to cite actual cases and include incisive commentary.

The result? A journey from the point of view of "motorheads" who shore up the fainthearted, bind the injured, and warn the daring who leap in to the dealership world. Some tales are humorous, others are incredulous. As they say, "We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried."

Tom Hudson is the author of numerous articles on auto dealer practices and finance, published in the World of Special Finance, Auto Dealer Monthly, F&I Magazine, and eDealerNews.com, among others. From coast to coast, he is a sought-after speaker on topics of legal interest to organizations like The American Financial Services Association, The National Automotive Finance Association, The Consumer Bankers Association, The American Bar Association, The National Automobile Dealers Association, state auto dealer associations, and dealers.

If you've been suffering withdrawal pains since the last two books came out, here's your fix. CARLAW II - Street Legal includes more timely advice on matters essential to automobile sales, finance, and lease aficionados, both professional and pedestrian. His topics are varied and inclusive:

From unfair and deceptive acts and practices to predatory lawyers ...
From warranties to "etch" ...
From advertising to dealer fraud.

CARLAW II - Street Legal is obviously the work of lawyers who know their subject matter cold. Yet, they have a warm-hearted, good time translating all that legalese into plain (and in some cases, very plain and down-home) English.

You'll enjoy taking CARLAW II - Street Legal for a spin. Don't mess with the dice.

Thomas B. Hudson
Thomas B. Hudson

Meet the Authors

Here are the 22 authors of CARLAW II - Street Legal. They are among the 40 attorneys at the law firm Hudson Cook, LLP, a firm with over 450 years' experience in consumer finance.

Emily Marlow Beck
C. Carter Berkely
Catherine M. Brennan
A. James Chareq
Patricia E.M. Covington
Charles F. Dodge, Jr.
Rochelle B. (Shelley) Fowler
Michael A. Goodman
D. Brent Gunsalus
Maya P. Hill
Thomas B. Hudson
Daniel J. Laudicina
Wingrove S. Lynton
Nicole Frush Munro
Meghan S. Musselman
Timothy O. Naughton
L. Jean Noonan
Teresa L. Rohwedder
Clayton C. Swears
David K. Tomar
Alicia H. Tortarolo
Catherine C. Worthington

Thomas B. Hudson has practiced consumer vehicle sales, finance, and leasing law since 1973. Mr. Hudson chairs the law firm of Hudson Cook, LLP. He is President of CounselorLibrary.com, LLC, and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of CARLAW, an Internet service that reports auto finance and lease legal developments. He has served as President of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers, and Chair of the American Bar Association Consumer Financial Services Committee's Personal Property Finance Subcommittee. He represents the National Automotive Finance Association, Reynolds & Reynolds, auto finance companies, major banks and independent finance companies, and many companies who supply services to the auto finance and leasing industry. He is a frequent writer and speaker on topics relating to vehicle finance and leasing.