NYS Bar To Make Foreclosure Defense Training Seminar Available Online

In connection with a recent foreclosure defense training seminar for attorneys recently held in Queens, the New York State Bar Association announced:

• [F]or attorneys who were not able to attend, the program will be recorded, and course materials will be made available both online and to all local bars and legal service offices throughout the state to help train more attorneys to handle residential foreclosure cases.(1)

The NYSBA also issued this reminder:

• A new law that took affect on September 1, 2008 entitles all New York homeowners with subprime loans in foreclosure to mandatory court settlement conferences that provide a forum for the lender and the borrower to meet together with a mediator with the ultimate goal of achieving a workable resolution to avoid foreclosure.

For more, see NYSBA press release: State Bar Association Program Increases Number Of Pro Bono Attorneys To Assist Homneowners Facing Foreclosure (Free Continuing Legal Education Seminar Provides Training for 250 Volunteer Attorneys to Help Represent Homeowners in Foreclosure Settlement Conferences).

(1) For the cost conscious and/or CLE-obsessed, the recent Queens seminar was free, and attendees pocketed 8 continuing legal education credits, according to the press release.