A one-day “back to basics” workshop on complying with truth-in-advertising laws is being presented on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, by the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper, Jr. Green Lights & Red Flags: Rules of the Road for Advertisers and Businesses features a roster of national experts discussing the latest developments in advertising law for attorneys, business owners, and marketing executives. The workshop is presented in cooperation with the Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South and the Tennessee Bar Association in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act.
Topics to be examined at the workshop include:
Green Lights & Red Flags will be held at the First Tennessee Auditorium, 165 Madison Street, M Level, in Memphis, Tennessee, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. The admission fee of $100 includes lunch and a CD of all workshop materials. The sponsors have applied for 3.5 hours of general Tennessee CLE credit and one hour of ethics and professionalism credit. To register, visit www.tennbaru.com or call (800) 899-6993.
The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish or to get free information on any of 150 consumer topics, call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357), or use the complaint form at www.ftc.gov. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 1,600 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.
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