Product Description

This training is for community and lay advocates, mediators, housing and legal advocates, and others interested in having a better understanding of tenants’ rights in Massachusetts. The training focuses on evictions, focusing on the rights of the tenants and going through the eviction process. The program looks at notices to quit, summary process, the tenant’s rights through the process, and many other topics. Materials include Legal Tactics: Tenants’ Rights in Massachusetts.

ABOUT BASIC PUBLIC BENEFITS ADVOCACY TRAININGS

MCLE and Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) collaborate annually with a training series designed for both community-based organizations and public/private sector legal advocates who assist low income Massachusetts residents. The training series covers the nuts and bolts of federal and state public benefits, tax credits, tenant and utilities rights and more.

Agenda & Materials

• 12:00pm - 12:05pm

  Welcome and Introduction

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  Annette R. Duke, Esq., MLRI , Boston
  
• 12:05pm - 1:30pm

  Facing Eviction Part I

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  Annette R. Duke, Esq., MLRI , Boston
  Laura F. Camara, Esq., Greater Boston Legal Services , Boston
  Patricia Whiting, Esq., Harvard Legal Aid Bureau , Cambridge
  
• 1:30pm - 1:45pm

  Break
• 1:45pm - 2:30pm

  Facing Eviction Part II

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  Panel
  
• 2:30pm - 2:45pm

  Break
• 2:45pm - 3:30pm

  Facing Eviction Part II Continued

  Panel
  
• 3:30pm - 4:00pm

  Questions

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  Panel
  

Chair

Faculty