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From the program: Working with Immigrants: The Intersection of Basic Immigration, Housing, and Domestic Violence Issues in California (Free)

Released on: May. 28, 2013

You should view this training if you would like to provide pro bono services to immigrant clients in the areas of housing, immigration, or domestic violence or you would like to improve your representation of immigrant clients generally.  Many immigrant clients require assistance with a constellation of related yet distinct issues.  This program attempts to address these particular areas of overlap.  Experienced practitioners in ...

Released on: May. 21, 2013

Taken from the briefing Sierra Club v. EPA: Clean Air Act Permitting Becomes Even More Complicated and Onerous recorded May, 2013.On January 22, 2013, the court in Sierra Club v. EPA, No. 10-1413 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 22, 2013) issued a decision with far reaching implications for sources seeking a Clean Air Act permit under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program. The decision addressed two screening tools – Significant Impact Levels (SILs) ...

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: Apr. 25, 2013

Taken from the Web Program International Estate & Tax Planning 2013 Recorded April, 2013 in New YorkPlanning for the Acquisition, Ownership, and Disposition of U.S. Residential Real Estate by Non-U.S. Persons [00:57:24] Alternative ownership structures: Domestic trusts, foreign trusts, corporations, LLCs, partnerships U.S. income tax considerations U.S. estate tax considerations Practical considerations The purchase price of this segment ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

Taken from the Web Program 18th Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute Recorded April, 2013 in New YorkFair Lending & Mortgage Litigation [01:47:01] 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 of fair lending enforcement in connection ...

Recorded on: Apr. 12, 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 YorkEnvironmental and Land Use Law [01:00:54] 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) relating to the exposure of first ...

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: 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 ...

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: 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. 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 ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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: 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

KEN: Good. Thanks. JOSH: Our next speaker is going to be Steve Wilner who's at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton here in New York. Steve has a wide-ranging real estate and corporate practice with an emphasis on real estate financing, hospitality, development work, foreclosures, restructurings, and bankruptcies. And we're going to be focusing on foreclosures, restructurings, bankruptcies, and workouts in this particular segment of the program. ...

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 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: 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, 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: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: But for now, we're going to turn to our Rob Hellman and Dan Rubock, who are going to speak about the current state of the market and the current world of CMBS. Rob has 30 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry. He's an attorney, although he functions now as a Head of Asset Management and Head of the Investment Committee of Pembrook. He's also served as president, CEO, or CFO for a number of public real estate funds ...