Indiana Chief Justice Leads Effort To Give State's Judges, Lawyers Foreclosure Defense Training

In Indianapolis, Indiana, The Associated Press reports:

• Indiana's dubious distinction as one of the leading mortgage foreclosure states has faded some, but not enough for the judicial and legal communities to ignore. Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard wants Indiana to have more judges and lawyers than any other state trained in foreclosures, and that effort begins [this] week when about 100 receive training.(1)

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• The Indiana Supreme Court is sponsoring the mortgage training [this] Friday in Indianapolis with Indiana Legal Services Inc., which provides free legal services to low-income and elderly people, and the Legal Aid Society of Southwest Ohio.

For more, see Shepard wants more lawyers trained on foreclosures.

(1) His goal is to have 700 judges and pro bono mortgage lawyers and mediators by this summer -- a promise Shepard made in his annual State of the Judiciary speech last month, the story states.