Providing Legal Assistance in the Aftermath of Disaster 2020

Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.

• Opening Remarks* [00:03:34]
  Tiela Chalmers
• Providing Brief Service to Survivors of Disaster: Hotline 101 and Working with Survivors of Trauma [01:02:31]
  Gloria Chun, Erin Scott
• FEMA: Appeals, Recoupment, and Other Issues for Disaster Survivors [01:01:25]
  Kendall Jarvis
• Helping Those Affected by Disaster to Recover: Consumer Rights, Responsibilities and Protections, and Insurance Issues After a Disaster [00:59:55]
  Amy Bach, Desiree Nguyen Orth
• (Intermediate) Post-Disaster Insurance Issues: Policy Conditions, Underinsured, Causation, and More [01:00:45]
  Amy Bach, Lee S. Harris
• Other Common Disaster Legal Issues: Protecting the Rights of Employees and Employers After A Disaster [01:00:40]
  Derek G. Schoonmaker, Jora Trang
• Post-Disaster Landlord-Tenant Housing Issues: Strategies to Advocate for Low-Income Renters Affected by Disaster [01:00:25]
  Professor Ora Prochovnick, Shirley Gibson
• Helping Survivors Understand Housing Rights and Responsibilities After Disaster: Issues Faced by Residents of Mobile Home Parks and Foreclosure and Repair Issues for Homeowners After A Disaster [01:00:55]
  Jeffery Hoffman, Lisa Sitkin

Presentation Material

• Providing Legal Assistance in the Aftermath of Disaster 2020 Complete Course Handbook
• Hotline 101 (PowerPoint slides)
  Gloria Chun
• Working with Survivors of Trauma (PowerPoint slides)
  Erin Scott
• Sample Hotline Intake Form
  Gloria Chun
• Trauma-Informed Lawyering, Justice in Aging, National Center on Law & Elder Rights
  Erin Scott
• What is FEMA and How Can it Help After a Disaster? (PowerPoint slides)
  Kendall Jarvis
• Code of Federal Regulations Title 44 – Emergency Management and Assistance
  Kendall Jarvis
• FEMA Appeal Letter Overview, Legal Aid of Sonoma County
  Kendall Jarvis
• Sample Appeal of FEMA Denial
  Kendall Jarvis
• FEMA Fact Sheet: Cora Brown Fund
  Kendall Jarvis
• FEMA Fact Sheet: Individuals and Households Program
  Kendall Jarvis
• FEMA Fact Sheet: Temporary Housing Units (THUs)
  Kendall Jarvis
• FEMA Fact Sheet: Disaster Assistance, September 2018
  Kendall Jarvis
• Consumer Law Issues After a Disaster (PowerPoint slides)
  Desiree Nguyen Orth
• Helping Those Affected by Disaster to Recover: Consumer Rights, Responsibilities and Protections, and Insurance Issues After a Disaster (PowerPoint slides)
  Amy Bach
• Consumer Issues Following a Disaster in California
  Desiree Nguyen Orth
• Checklist of Important Documents
  Desiree Nguyen Orth
• Identity Theft: Prevention
  Desiree Nguyen Orth
• Disaster Relief: Cash Flow Budget Worksheet
  Desiree Nguyen Orth
• Sample Letter of Exempt Funds and Cease and Desist
  Desiree Nguyen Orth
• Sample Notice of Exempt Funds
  Desiree Nguyen Orth
• Deduction of Land Value after Wildfires When the Insured Replaces the Destroyed Home with an Already Built Home at a New Location, May 28, 2019
  Amy Bach
• Resources After a Disaster
  Desiree Nguyen Orth
• Post-Disaster Insurance Issues: Policy Conditions, Underinsured, Causation 2020 (Intermediate) (PowerPoint slides)
  Amy Bach, Lee S. Harris
• Significant California Laws Effective as of the Date of this Notice that Pertain to Residential Property Insurance Policies, including those related to a Declared State of Emergency (SB 240), November 5, 2019
  Amy Bach, Lee S. Harris
• Other Common Disaster Legal Issues: Employer Responsibilities and Protecting the Rights of Employees After a Disaster (PowerPoint slides)
  Derek G. Schoonmaker, Jora Trang
• California Employee Rights & Employer Responsibilities Post-Disaster
  Derek G. Schoonmaker
• Tenant Housing Advocacy After Disaster (PowerPoint slides)
  Shirley Gibson, Professor Ora Prochovnick
• Starting January 1, 2020: Rent Caps and Just Cause Protections for CA Tenants, Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County
  Shirley Gibson
• Mobile Home Issues in a Disaster (PowerPoint slides)
  Jeffery Hoffman
• Assisting Homeowners After a Disaster (PowerPoint slides)
  Lisa Sitkin
• Mobile Home Issues in a Disaster Course Outline
  Jeffery Hoffman
• Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act: Assembly Bill (AB) 3066 (Chapter 774, Statutes of 2018), October 18, 2018, Information Bulletin 2018-02 (MP, SOP, MH, RT)
  Jeffery Hoffman
• Mortgage Insurance for Disaster Victims Section 203(H)
  Lisa Sitkin
• Frequently Asked Questions - Revised Property Tax Bill: Tax Payments on Property Damaged by Fires, Sonoma County, California
  Lisa Sitkin

(This program was recorded on January 29, 2020 and does not include coverage of disaster programs or policies specifically related to COVID-19.  The content focuses on legal responses for survivors of natural disasters, however, the topics discussed may also be relevant to COVID-19.  The program content was reviewed by the faculty in August 2021.)

Why You Should Attend
In the aftermath of disasters, survivors face a wide variety of legal problems and barriers to recovery. This training will enable attorneys to help serve as LEGAL FIRST RESPONDERS™ and will prepare attorneys to participate in disaster legal services pro bono efforts, including brief phone assistance, providing legal information and referral, in person assistance at know-your-rights workshops, community forums and legal aid clinics (general or subject-specific), and legal representation (limited and full scope).

This training is part of a regionally coordinated disaster legal services planning effort in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. The Disaster Legal Assistance Collaborative (Alameda County Bar Association and Legal Access Alameda; San Francisco-Marin Lawyer Referral Services and Justice & Diversity Center; Bay Area Legal Aid; California Rural Legal Assistance; Legal Aid Association of California; San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association; Pro Bono Net; Morrison & Foerster; Cooley LLP; and the State Bar of California), developed a regional coordination plan for the provision of legal services in the aftermath of a major disaster in the San Francisco Bay Area. DLAC’s pre-planning and coordination efforts were effective in responding to the Northern California wildfires in recent years, and in supporting the response to Southern California disasters.

This training is intended to provide an overview of the most common legal issues that arise in the aftermath of a disaster and will rely on Federal and California law and policy, but will be useful for attorneys in any jurisdiction to form the basis for a disaster recovery legal response.

What You Will Learn

• Framework for providing post-disaster legal services and pro bono opportunities
• How to conduct intake, triage, and provide brief legal information and referral
• How to work with survivors of trauma
• Insurance issues
• Employment and workers’ rights
• Consumer fraud and protections