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Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

KENT QIAN: I think we have reached the 10:15 mark, so that's the signal for me to transition to our next topic, which will be admission issues in federally subsidized housing. And to guide us through that, Meliah Schultzman will be the presenter for this part. Ms. Schultzman is an attorney at a national housing law project. She is involved in policy advocacy and litigation to advance the rights of tenants in federally subsidized housing programs ...

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2012

CYRUS MEHTA: So while the panelists setting up I'm going to introduce the panel to all of you. It's a great panel. All the panels are great but we are really fortunate to have three leading experts. And the previous panel spoke about grounds of inadmissibility and removeability. And this panel will talk about relief when someone's put into removal proceedings. And the first speaker on this panel is Anwen Hughes. She helps overseas human rights first ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: OK, so we'll get moving with the next panel. We spoke about how people get into removal and deportation proceedings. This panel will generally speak about how people can seek relief from removal and deportation. And just relief in general, because asylum can be sought even administratively outside the removal context. So we do have a great panel. And it's going to be a long panel-- 1 hour, 15 minutes. Each speaker will have 25 minutes ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

We'll move on to the second part of our presentation, and this presentation is from the bank's perspective. And Peter Barwick is going to speak about the way mortgage securities are held by the banks, the corporate trust issues. And Rich Haber and Jeff Jaffee are going to talk about the economics of mortgage servicing. And thank you very much gentlemen. PETER S. BARWICK: Good afternoon. Thanks, Joe. Thank you all for braving the elements to get here. ...

Recorded on: Aug. 3, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome to today's briefing, Calling All DREAMers. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the course handbook tab in the program window. Our speaker for ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SHARON DJEMAL: Which leads us to our first hour entitled Client Counseling and Advocacy: The Role of Race, Class and Culture, which will explore how we can increase our own cultural competency and literacy. And as a result, become better advocates for our clients. This session will be led by Tirien Steinbach, who is the executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center and a lecturer at Berkeley Law School. Please join me in welcoming Tirien ...

Recorded on: Sep. 21, 2012

ROBERT E. BORTON: Thank you, Christina. Bring that little screen up if you can too. KATIE DANIELSON: OK. ROBERT E. BORTON: There it is. I got it. KATIE DANIELSON: [INAUDIBLE] microphone [INAUDIBLE]? ROBERT E. BORTON: Yes. So obviously we want to offer the exhibit in evidence. That's the whole point of going through that litany and struggling our way through it. And then once it's there, publish it, and then use the document with the witness. In ...

Recorded on: Dec. 19, 2012

SETH PERLMAN: Thoroughly rested? Ready for the last third of our session? Yes. Oh, wait. I guess we're not starting yet. We're missing our speaker. Are you starting? JEAN L. TOM: David is first. SETH PERLMAN: David is first? Just give us a little minute or two. I'm sorry. DAVID G. SAMUELS: Right here? You know I'm not starting yet. I just want to make sure that-- SETH PERLMAN: Thank you. Welcome back from break. The next third of the session is ...

Recorded on: Mar. 29, 2012

MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Other lending abuses, as well. So with that, let me see if there is any other housekeeping stuff. Wonderful panel here this morning. I will introduce them all. And then I will tell you a little bit more about your first speaker. So this morning, we have Sally J. Elkington, Cathy Moran, and Lisa Sitkin, two private practitioners in the bankruptcy arena, and Lisa Sitkin, managing attorney at Housing and Economic Rights Advocates. Sally ...

Recorded on: Oct. 10, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Maeve Elise and Lisa. MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Great. Welcome back. Thank you. OK in our final segment, we're going to talk a little bit about credit and foreclosure. So let's go ahead and jump in. One of the monstrous and unintended consequences of course of the foreclosure crisis is millions and millions of people whose credit has been pummeled. And what is going to happen to them remains to be seen. I offer the stat about how many homeowners ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SHARON DJEMAL: Hi everyone. Welcome back from lunch. I'm really looking forward to this next panel on domestic violence and housing. This session is going to focus on how California laws, the Fair Housing Act, and the Violence Against Women Act protect survivors of domestic violence from denial of housing, help them defend and avoid evictions, and aid survivors in maintaining safe and stable housing. These panelists have prepared a very thorough ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

S. LYNN MARTINEZ: OK. Can you hear me out there? Yes? OK. So we are now going to move into our sessions about more specific types of tenancies. This one will be about foreclosure, tenants living in foreclosed homes. I'm joined here by Dean Preston from Tenants Together. He's the founder and executive director of the organization, which is California's only statewide organization for renter's rights. Previous to founding Tenants Together, Dean was ...

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: Jun. 29, 2012

CATHERINE BISHOP: OK, I'll put that down. KENT QIAN: All right. Welcome back from lunch everyone. I hope that you are all excited now to move on from the substantive grounds for eviction to the next part of eviction from federally-subsidized housing. Now we can talk about some of the procedural protections that tenants in federally-subsidized housing programs have. So this again, as I said in the beginning of the day, this part is going to have ...

Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

KENT: OK, welcome back, everyone. Now we're going to start a new chapter in our program-- eviction from federally-subsidized housing. And I'm sure this is a session that many of you came here for, so this part I will do together with Kathy Bishop. So eviction will have two parts. I think the more the morning part will cover the substantive grounds for eviction, so we'll be we take an hour for that. And then we'll take an hour in the afternoon when ...

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. 26, 2012

MARIE I. MOMBRUN: Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming back, back to adventures in Social Security federal practice. Hi, everyone in internet-land. What we left off with was our discussion about the district court's standard of review. Obviously the substantial evidence has a lot to do with the record-- what you've been able to get into the record by way of medical evidence, by way of testimony, or other evidence related to vocational and miscellaneous ...

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, ...

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: Dec. 19, 2012

JANET L. SIEGEL: And now it's my pleasure to introduce to you today's program co-chairs. Julie Floch is a CPA, and director of not-for-profit services at EisnerAmper here in New York City, where she is the partner responsible for coordinating and administration of engagements in the firm's not-for-profit practice. She's participated in various not-for-profit initiatives of the AICPA, and continues as a panelist in many of its educational courses. She's ...

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: Mar. 29, 2012

MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Part two of the presentation this morning, "From the Trenches," how bankruptcy courts deal with mortgage debt. Cathy Moran is going to lead on this. And let me tell you a little bit more about her. She's a certified specialist in bankruptcy. She's practiced law in San Francisco since 1978. She's a graduate of Stanford and of Hastings College of Law, was a member of Hastings Law Journal and elected to the Order of the Coif. She ...

Recorded on: Mar. 29, 2012

SPEAKER: Thanks so much. Back to you. MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Great. Thank you very much. OK, we're going to go ahead and resume. And before we climb into the meat of the third hour, I want to get to some more of the questions. Somebody had a question in the audience as the last hour was closing. Sir, do you still have one? Otherwise I'll move to online. AUDIENCE: I just had a question. How does the bankruptcy court have jurisdiction to impose sanctions ...

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, ...