North Carolina Lawyers Volunteer Assistance To State's Low-Income Homeowners Facing Foreclosure

In North Carolina, a press release issued on Carolina Newswire by a group of North Carolina attorney groups announces:

• More than 100 attorneys participated in a recent training designed to help them volunteer legal help to low-income families who are dealing with mortgage foreclosures across North Carolina. The training event was sponsored by the NC Academy of Trial Lawyers, which requested that its members reach out to help individual homeowners who are being threatened with foreclosure or are presently in the foreclosure process and cannot afford legal representation.

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• The training, "Responding to the Subprime Mortgage Meltdown: Defending Homeowners Against Foreclosure," included sessions on the foreclosure process, identification of defenses and optional bankruptcy. Participants heard private attorneys and representatives of the legal services organizations who have partnered to provide mortgage foreclosure representation. Participants are expected to provide representation on a pro bono basis for low-income families who are facing mortgage foreclosure.

Among the legal groups involved in the effort were:

• Legal Aid of North Carolina - a statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to eligible, low-income people in all 100 counties in North Carolina through 24, geographically located offices in North Carolina,
• NC Justice Center - North Carolina’s leading private, nonprofit anti-poverty organization.
• North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers.

For more, see Attorneys volunteer to help low-income families with mortgage foreclosure defense.