ACA Legal Counsel will address legal issues at IAT Annual User Conference

IAT recently announced that Valerie Hayes, ACA International Corporate Counsel, will discuss the industry’s most pressing legal issues at the 2009 IAT User Conference this April.

A Utah-based dialing technology company, IAT provides both site-premised and hosted dialing solutions for the collection industry. At the Annual User Conference, IAT trains customers on their dialing technology and provides guest speakers to cover other important topics of interest to their clients.

“Understanding and working within current legal boundaries is vital to the collection industry,” Dave Rudd, IAT President, said. “Valerie Hayes is well-qualified to address the current legal issues facing the industry. I am confident she will present information our customers need to stay within the law.”

Hayes is also the ACA Vice President of Legal and Government Affairs. Her presentation, “Legal Hot Topics,” will include highlighting issues with Caller ID, Email, cell phones, Foti and the FDCPA.

The IAT User Conference is scheduled for April 14 – 17th, 2009, New Orleans, LA. It is open to all IAT Customers. For more information, please visit http://www.iat-cti.com/register.asp.

About Valerie Hayes
Valerie is the ACA International Corporate Counsel and the Vice President of Legal and Government Affairs. She has written numerous articles and given multiple seminars on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, state collection laws, electronic transactions and multiple other topics. She began working with ACA after graduating from Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Boston University. She was named a 2008 Top Woman in Finance by Finance and Commerce.