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Pro Bono

This Year

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

LYNN MARTINEZ: So at this point, we're going to start with our first session. To my far right is Laura Lane. Laura Lane has directed the housing practice at East Bay Community Law Center in Berkeley for many years. She joined in 1997 as a supervising attorney. She also teaches housing law and policy at the University of California Berkeley School of Law as well as the Golden Gate University School of Law. She recently authored a chapter on residential ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

S. LYNN MARTINEZ: So we are now being joined by Phong Wong, who is the pro bono director of Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. Prior to becoming the pro bono director, she worked in housing for many years, mostly around slum housing litigation, eviction defense, and subsidized housing, and housing redevelopment. Phong has also worked on access to court issues, including fee waiver issues with Western Center on Law and Poverty and at LAFLA. And ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

SPEAKER 1: OK, everybody, we're going to start. Take your seats. Philip Morgan-- SPEAKER 2: You should call out Dean Preston too. SPEAKER 1: We're moving on now to subsidized housing and evictions and program terminations for subsidized housing tenants. You all know Kent. We're also joined this session by Navneet Grewal, who also works at Western Center on Law and Poverty, in Los Angeles, with me. She's the staff attorney there, focusing solely ...

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2013

MARIE I. MOMBRUN: Hi, my name's Marie Mombrun again, and let's see, where did we leave off, with reading the Judges' Rules and finding out about conferences, forms of motions, briefs and correspondence. So I left you with that teaser the last time about what I did. I wrote a letter to the Judges' Part asking for an extension on my brief, and the judge in the Eastern District granted the exception of the extension. And she said, well, in her order, ...

From the program: Social Security Disability 2013: From Administrative Proceedings to Federal Practice

Released on: Apr. 2, 2013

Disabled children and adults need your help!  Learn federal practice as you learn how to represent disabled children and adults who need your assistance following denials of their claims by the Social Security Administration.After denial of an initial disability claim, claimants frequently find a possible appeal to be confusing, difficult, and even overwhelming.  Many claimants cannot afford legal representation and must navigate the appeals ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

S. LYNN MARTINEZ: OK, you all. It's four o'clock. We're going to get started for our last session. One more hour to go. Hang in there. OK, so our last session is Fee Waivers, Requests for Jury Trials, and Appellate Division Writs. And we now are formally being introduced to Christian Abasto, who is the Director of Litigation at the Public Law Center in Santa Ana. Previous to joining PLC, he was with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles for many ...

Recorded on: Feb. 21, 2013

DOREEN ODOM: It is now my pleasure to introduce you to the chair of today's program, Pamela A. Mann. Pamela Mann is chair of the Tax Exempt Organizations Group in the firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, LLP, with a practice concentrated in the representation of tax exempt organizations. From 1996 to December, 2012, she was Principal in the Mann Legal Group LLC, a boutique law firm serving tax exempt organizations. From 1985 to 1995, Ms. Mann was ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SPEAKER 1: All right. So the last session of the day we're focusing on immigration protections for survivors of domestic violence. And we're going to touch on a number of topics-- asylum, VAWA. You've heard people talking about that throughout the afternoon. U visas and T visas. And we have three panelists who are going to introduce themselves as they speak. Thank you. LISA FRYDMAN: I'm going last because I'm going to then go into the intro slides, ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SPEAKER 1: I'd like to introduce the next panel, who will focus on the overlap between housing and immigration, including housing protections, how immigration status affects eligibility for subsidized housing, and cultural competency issues that arise when working with immigrant clients on housing issues. There are three panelists. Omar Calimbas is a senior staff attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, which is the nation's oldest legal and civil rights ...

From the program: How to Find and Handle Your First Pro Bono Case (Free)

Released on: Jun. 12, 2013

This program is a great opportunity to get a strong overview of the world of pro bono, how it can enrich and advance your professional development, and how to make it happen.Lecture Topics  [Total time 03:10:38] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. Program Overview and Introductions* [00:01:36]Tiela Chalmers How to Find the Right Case [01:10:37]Tiela Chalmers, Paul Chavez, Elizabeth A. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: All right. Great. So we are now ready to start the next session, the immigrant or permanent visa categories that lead to lawful permanent residency, or the green card. And we again have a very distinguished panel who have been doing it for many years. Deborah Notkin is a partner with the firm of Barst, Mukamal & Kleiner, and maintains a large international and National Immigration practice. She is the past president of the American ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

LINDA TAM: Thank you so much. That was very informative. I learned a lot. So our next panel is dealing with-- it's very hard to deal with immigration, domestic violence and housing, and not touch a little bit on family law, because it's kind of within the realm of all of those issues that we've been talking about. So our next panelists, Khanh Nguyen and Hongvilay Thongsamouth will be talking about common family law issues that arise when immigrants ...

From the program: Immigration & Naturalization Institute (45th Annual)

Released on: Jan. 2, 2013

DVD's from the program Immigration & Naturalization Institute (45th Annual), held November 2012.

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: Hello, everybody. I'm glad you've come back and we're going to have our next session, post-lunch session. The morning session essentially focused on how to bring people into the United States, either on temporary visas, as well as on immigrant visas, and how they would ultimately get green cards. This session will be the exact opposite. It will focus on how to represent and defend people who are either being removed from the United ...

From the program: Social Media for Non-Profit and Public Interest Organizations 2013 (Free)

Released on: Apr. 4, 2013

Please note: There is no CLE credit available for this program.With the growing focus on social media in the legal profession, smart non-profits and public interest organizations are cultivating a robust social media presence. Learn how to stay on the forefront of this new technology and harness the potential of social media to grow your donor and volunteer base and expand your organization’s footprint. Lecture Topics [Total time 03:13:48] Segments ...

Recorded on: Feb. 21, 2013

PAMELA A. MANN: OK. Break's over. I am very happy to introduce our next speaker, Dave Shevlin, who is a partner and the head of the Exempt Organizations Group at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett in New York City. He has been with Simpson Thatcher for a number of years, where he advises a variety of international and domestic exempt organizations, including "Friends of" organizations and all forms of private foundations and public charities. He ...

Recorded on: Feb. 21, 2013

PAMELA MANN: Our last speaker today is Sean Delaney. Sean Delaney is the executive director of the Lawyers Alliance of New York, the leading provider of pro bono business legal services to community development organizations and other nonprofit groups in New York City. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Delaney served as the legal director of the Lawyers Alliance. Prior to his work with Lawyers Alliance, Mr. Delaney served as the chief of the charities bureau ...

From the program: New Developments in Residential Loan Servicing: State, Federal and Programmatic Laws, Regulations and Standards (Free)

Released on: May. 20, 2013

The rules of the road for residential mortgage servicing have changed significantly since the crash in 2008. Since then, a wide variety of agencies, including Congress, federal banking regulators, state attorneys general and the California legislature, have all sought to improve loan servicers’ practices, particularly in connection with the loss mitigation process. The result is a series of overlapping rules, laws and regulations –  from the ...

Recorded on: Jan. 15, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Thank you and welcome back. We're just about to start our 1:45 session, which is about Mastering the Bargain and Concession-Making Process. I have three panelists with me. Let me introduce them to you. To my right is Michael Fox. And Michael is a partner with Sedgwick here in Los Angeles-- Los Angeles, I just moved here, sorry. But a native Los Angeleno. Los Angeleno, yes, but however Michael's a partner with Sedgwick here in San Francisco. And ...

Recorded on: Jan. 15, 2013

DOUG MACKAY: Our discussion continues. And now we're going to actually talk about mastering negotiating tactics and deflecting ploys when they happen. This is the fun part of negotiating. So what happens when all of these things that you may-- may be a little unexpected. So when do those happen? And I'm joined this afternoon by Jerry Birn and Matthew Vafidis. So let me tell you a little bit about Jerry. So Jerry is a partner at Wilson Sonsini. And ...

Released on: May. 10, 2013

Please note: CLE is not available this program.Taken from the briefing Maximizing Your IP Job Search with Loyola Chicago's PLIP 2013 recorded April, 2013.Lecture Topics  [Total Time: 00:57:58]

Released on: Jun. 26, 2013

Taken from the briefing Maximizing Your IP Job Search with PLIP 2013, Part II recorded June, 2013.On Monday, June 24, those of you selected for interviews at Loyola's Patent Law Interview Program will get access to your preliminary interview schedules. As soon as you know who you will be interviewing with, you will want to begin preparing for the program.Our speakers: Alissa Holterman, administrator of Loyola's Patent Law Interview Program; Katharine ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Municipal Securities Activity by Broker-Dealers and Advisors 2013 Recorded May, 2013 in New YorkMSRB and FINRA Developments [00:58:48] The MSRB Rulebook EMMA: current resources and future functionality FINRA monthly report card: material event disclosure in the primary market The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: MSRB and Finra Developments ...

Recorded on: Jan. 15, 2013

DOUG MACKAY: Thank you, Christina. Thank you, and thank you to our panelists for joining us today. This is our last panel discussion of the day, and it is about negotiating with colleagues and peers, negotiating with colleagues and peers. So let me introduce my panelists. To my right is Mike Gotham, and Mike is Director of Attorney Recruiting and Retention for Perkins Coie. Prior to joining Perkins Coie in 2008, Mike was Director of Attorney Recruiting ...

Recorded on: Jan. 31, 2013

MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Turn it over to them. LISA SITKIN: Thanks. Good morning. I'll just give a disclaimer that I have the cold that's going around, so I apologize if I sneeze, or cough, or make any weird sounds. So we wanted to start just with a little bit of background and overview. What we're going to try to do today is to familiarize you with where we are now. And where we're going to be in about a year when a lot of the rules we're discussing ...