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, getting repairs made, rents, and housing discrimination. While the eviction process part of the program applies to all tenants, the training focuses primarily on rights of tenants in private housing. Materials include Legal Tactics: Tenants’ Rights in Massachusetts.

A COLLABORATIVE SERIES

MCLE, the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI), and other Massachusets legal services programs collaborate to provide annual basic public benefits advocacy training events for the many public and private sector lawyers and community advocates who assist Massachusetts residents to qualify for and receive public benefits. Detailed materials are distributed electronically for all trainings.

Agenda & Materials

• 9:30 am - 9:35 am

  Introduction

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  Panel
  
• 9:35 am - 10:45 am

  Tenants' Rights: Evictions

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  Hed Ehrlich, Esq., Greater Boston Legal Services , Boston
  Patricia Whiting, Esq., Harvard Legal Aid Bureau , Cambridge
  
• 10:45 am - 11:00 am

  Break
• 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Tenants' Rights: Evictions Continued

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  Hed Ehrlich, Esq., Greater Boston Legal Services , Boston
  Patricia Whiting, Esq., Harvard Legal Aid Bureau , Cambridge
  
• 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

  Lunch
• 12:45 pm - 1:14 pm

  Tenants' Rights: MADE Online Live Demo

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  Quinten Steenhuis, Esq., Suffolk University Law School , Boston
  
• 1:14 pm - 2:01 pm

  Tenants' Rights: Getting Repairs Made

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  David Brown, Esq., Community Legal Aid , Worcester
  
• 2:01 pm - 2:05 pm

  Break
• 2:05 pm - 2:50 pm

  Tenants' Rights: Housing Discrimination

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  Maureen R. St. Cyr, Esq., Massachusetts Fair Housing Center , Holyoke
  
• 2:50 pm - 3:14 pm

  Tenants' Rights: Rent

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  Jan M. Kendrick, Esq.,
  
• 3:14 pm - 3:30 pm

  Open Questions

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Chair

Faculty