Help

Housing Court Judicial Forum 2025

Meet the judges of the Housing Court

  • Product Number: 2250180WBA
  • Publication Date: 4/16/2025
  • Length: 3 hours CLE Credit Note
  • Copyright: © 2025 MCLE, Inc.
  • Add to Favorites List

Your Selection:

Add to Cart
Also Available:
On Demand video and audio
Related On Demand Videos
See Agenda below to purchase individual video segments from this program. Pricing varies by video length. Member and new lawyer pricing available. Free for OnlinePass subscribers.
  • Product Description
  • Agenda & Materials
  • Faculty
  • Product Description

    Product Description

    The past few years have changed the procedural landscape of the Housing Court, including changes and updates to scheduling and the manner of conducting hearings. MCLE is pleased to reconvene—for the fourteenth time—the Housing Court Judicial Forum 2025—back by popular request. With regulations and statutes first adopted during the emergency and put into practice since, the Housing Court has continued to adapt to those changes and challenges by being flexible and responsive, including tremendous progress in the use of technology and creative use of scheduling to meet the challenges created by that situation and to address the shifting needs of practitioners and litigants. There are lessons to be learned and improvements to be kept from this challenging time. Additionally, there are changes that are underway, to both process and procedure, that will have real world impact on attorneys who practice in the Housing Court and their clients.

    Hear Forum participants engage in a lively discussion of the real-world impact of those changes, including the challenges and opportunities involved. Judges from all divisions of the Housing Court, joined by the chief Justice of the Housing Court, engage in a frank dialogue with attending practitioners and review key issues confronting Housing Court practice today—including discussion of the efficacy of policies and programs currently in place as well as ideas for providing additional access to justice for all litigants.

    Under the guidance of two experienced practitioners, the panel also reviews significant developments in regulatory and case law which may affect your practice in the Housing Court.

    This Forum offers you a unique opportunity to gain valuable practical insight into judicial discretion in the Housing Court. Attendees have the opportunity to ask the panel questions and hear directly from the judges on how to better prepare and try cases. Don’t miss this chance to participate in an important dialogue with members of the Housing Court.  

    PROGRAM SPONSOR

  • Agenda

    Agenda & Materials

    Please Note

    MCLE webcasts are delivered completely online, underscoring their convenience and appeal. There are no published print materials. All written materials are available electronically only. They are posted 24 hours prior to the program and can be accessed, downloaded, or printed from your computer.

  • Faculty

    Cochairs

    Catherine F. Downing, Esq., Downing Van Dyke LLC, Natick
    Deena Zakim, Esq., Harvard Legal Services Center Housing Clinic, Jamaica Plain

    Faculty

    Hon. Sergio E. Carvajal, Central Division, Housing Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester
    Hon. Gustavo A. del Puerto, First Justice, Northeast Housing Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston
    Hon. Diana H. Horan, Chief Justice, Housing Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston
    Hon. Jonathan J. Kane, Western Division, Housing Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Springfield
    Hon. Joseph E. Kelleher, III, First Justice, Eastern Division, Housing Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston
    Hon. Donna T. Salvidio, First Justice, Southeast Division, Housing Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Salem
    Hon. Neil K. Sherring, First Justice, Metro-South Division, Housing Court, Commonwealth of Mass., Canton
TOP