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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. ...

From the program: Residential Foreclosure Actions in New York State 2013 (Free)

Released on: Feb. 22, 2013

Since 2008, and the onset of the economic downturn, New York State and the Nation have experienced a sharp increase in the number of residential foreclosures.  The New York State Unified Court System and the State Legislature responded with a series of measures establishing a foreclosure settlement conference framework and procedures for ensuring that documents in foreclosure cases are free of deficiencies that would prevent a case from proceeding ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: Our next topic's going to be how a borrower negotiates loan documents. Our speaker is Andy Herz. Andy is a partner at Patterson, Belknap, Webb, and Tyler here in New York City, member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and a lawyer listed in the Best Lawyers in America. Chambers described Andy as quote, "an incredible leasing lawyer, probably the best in the city in terms of leasing. He's not bad on loan documents, ...

From the program: Commercial Real Estate Financing 2013

Released on: Mar. 1, 2013

This seminar will explore major issues and problems, and recent changes, in how lenders and borrowers negotiate commercial real estate loans in the still-lingering shadow of the recent financial crisis. Speakers will show how today’s lower valuations and the renewed conservatism of lenders will shape the terms, legal negotiations, and closing process of commercial real estate financing in 2013. This year’s program will turn back toward ...

From the program: California Eviction Defense: Protecting Low-Income Tenants 2013 (Free)

Released on: Mar. 27, 2013

In the current economic climate an increasing number of low-income Californians are facing eviction.  Unfortunately, many tenants are evicted without the benefit of legal counsel to guide them through the process or the representation necessary to vigorously defend against unlawful actions.  As a result, families face the very real possibility of homelessness.  This training is designed to help mitigate the crisis by providing attorneys ...

From the program: Catastrophe and the Law: What Lawyers Need to Know to Advise Clients to Prepare and Respond to Disasters 2013

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Catastrophe and the Law: What Lawyers Need to Know to Advise Clients to Prepare and Respond to Disasters 2013 recorded April, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [01:00:15]Environmental and Land Use Law  [01:00:15] Oil spills and hazardous substance releases, reporting and cleanup obligations Cleanup liability for harm for release of oil or hazardous substances Regulatory issues (OSHA, EPA, state and municipal) ...

From the program: Consumer Financial Services Institute 2013 (18th Annual)

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Consumer Financial Services Institute 2013 (18th Annual) recorded April, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [01:46:18]Fair Lending & Mortgage Litigation  [01:46:18] Fair Lending- Update on disparate impact under Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and the FHA in the courts and before the CFPB, HUD and the DOJ- Effect of the absence of disparate impact on both government and private litigation- Risks and challenges ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: Ok we're in the final lap for the day. And thank you for coming back for that final lap. We are turning now to the closing process for loans. The due diligence and loan documentation process. And I've asked Jim Carolan to focus on how loan documents work, where some of the problems are, and how you can mess up a commercial loan transaction. He added the concept of rescuing the commercial loan transaction. But that's OK. Jim heads the ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: OK, we're going to conclude the program today with about an hour on legal ethics. We're pleased to have Pery Krinsky speaking on legal ethics. His practice is devoted exclusively to attorney ethics matters as well as art law ethics, litigation, representing law school students before the committees on character and fitness. And he's chair of the Ethics Committee of the Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law section of the state bar association. ...

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: 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: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: We're going to be moving now to CMBS 2.0, and, if there is such a thing, what it means, how documentation has changed, how deal structures have changed, if they have changed. Our speakers are going to be Dan Rubock, again, joined now by Dave Stewart, who's a partner in the real estate practice of Mayer Brown, just down the street. Dave focuses his practice on secured lending and loans in the secondary market, including purchase of CMBS ...

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. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: --was terrific. Our next speaker is Michelle Kelban, who was a partner if mine at Latham & Watkins. And she's been identified as "a name to note and a skilled and extremely competent lawyer" by Legal 500 US. She specializes in complex real estate financing transactions. And I've asked her to speak about how to get a deal closed. MICHELLE KELBAN: Hi, everybody. I just want to make sure I've got this slide thing down right. ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: Good afternoon, everyone. I think our audience is petering out. But our next speaker is going to be Ken Lore, who is a nationally recognized expert on government-assisted commercial real estate financing. This is the first time I've included a segment on this topic in this program. Ken is co-chair of the real estate practice group at Bingham and has a wide-ranging real estate practice, which includes a substantial element of affordable ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: It needs to be cleaned up. On that note, we are going to turn to nondisturbance issues, and issues of how mortgagees look at space leases. And our speaker is Andrea Ascher, who was actually-- weren't you on the very first panel in '97 that I chaired for PLI? And I'm very happy to welcome Andrea back. She is a partner in the New York office of what used to be Schoeman, Updike, and Kaufman, but is now Schoeman, Updike, Kaufman, Stern, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: OK, thanks for returning after the break, everyone. Our next speaker is Guy Dempsey who is going to speak about derivatives, specifically interest rate caps and swaps as used in commercial real estate transactions. These features do appear in deal after deal after deal. And we all kind of look at them from a real estate perspective. Guy is an expert on derivatives from the perspective of how they're structured, how you set them up, ...

From the program: International Estate & Tax Planning 2013

Recorded on: Apr. 24, 2013

Taken from the Web Program International Estate & Tax Planning 2013 recorded April, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [00:56:44]Planning for the Acquisition, Ownership, and Disposition of U.S. Residential Real Estate by Non-U.S. Persons [00:56:44] Alternative ownership structures: Domestic trusts, foreign trusts, corporations, LLCs, partnerships U.S. income tax considerations U.S. estate tax considerations Practical considerations ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: Good morning, everybody. We are reconvening for day two. We're going to focus for the first hour on-- actually it's an hour and 15 minute slot focusing on multiple lender issues. We're going to start off with Mezzanine loans and inter-creditor issues, and then move to A/B loans, Junior/Senior participations. For this segment we are fortunate to have two leading real estate lawyers from New York City and nationally. Our first speaker ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: OK, thank you everybody, for coming back for the afternoon session. I shouldn't touch the microphone. Sorry about that. That's to wake everybody up. I'm going to be speaking about ground leases because ground leases are a very common ownership structure, particularly in New York, California, Florida, Texas, Maryland, and a few other places, perhaps everywhere. They come up again and again, and a certain set of issues keep coming up again ...

Released on: Apr. 11, 2013

Taken from the briefing New OCC Foreclosure Settlements: Moving on From the Independent Foreclosure Review Process recorded March, 2013. Millions of homeowners have lost their homes and been subjected to unlawful conduct by mortgage servicing companies in the context of both judicial and non-judicial foreclosure proceedings around the country. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve recently announced that they reached ...

From the program: Real Estate Tax Forum (15th Annual)

Released on: Feb. 21, 2013

Our 15th anniversary program has been completely revised and will have a more transactional focus.  This new approach highlights the tax problems being encountered by practitioners in today’s typical commercial real estate transactions and structures, and examines the simple and sophisticated solutions being used by the experts.  Panels of nationally-recognized real estate tax experts from major law and accounting firms will provide ...

From the program: Residential Lending after the Crash: An Update on How Dodd-Frank and the CFPB Have Changed the Rules of Home Loan Origination (Free)

Released on: Feb. 12, 2013

The rules of the road for residential lending have changed dramatically since the crash in 2008 and the subsequent passage of the Dodd-Frank amendments to the Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA) and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA).  In this training you will get an in-depth look at what’s new and what’s different, including an update on recent rulemaking by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).  Regulators ...