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.
Course Content
9:30am - 9:45am- Welcome and Introduction
- Annette R. Duke, Esq., MLRI, Boston
- Evictions I
- Hed Ehrlich, Esq., Greater Boston Legal Services, Boston
- Networking and Refreshment Break
- Evictions II
- Patricia Whiting, Esq., Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Cambridge
- Questions on Evictions
- Lunch (on your own)
- MLRI: Tenants' Rights: MADE Online
- Quinten Steenhuis, Esq., Suffolk University Law School, Boston
- MLRI: Tenants' Rights: Getting Repairs Made
- David Brown, Esq., Community Legal Aid, Worcester
- Networking and Refreshment Break
- Housing Discrimination
- Maureen R. St. Cyr, Esq., Massachusetts Fair Housing, Holyoke
- Rent
- Colleen Joanna Hibbert-Kapler, Esq., South Coastal Counties Legal Service/Fall River, Fall River
- MLRI: Tenants' Rights: Ask the Experts Q&A Session and Key Takeaways
- 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.
Speakers
Chair- Annette R. Duke, Esq., MLRI, Boston
- David Brown, Esq., Community Legal Aid, Worcester
- Hed Ehrlich, Esq., Greater Boston Legal Services, Boston
- Colleen Joanna Hibbert-Kapler, Esq., South Coastal Counties Legal Service/Fall River, Fall River
- Maureen R. St. Cyr, Esq., Massachusetts Fair Housing, Holyoke
- Quinten Steenhuis, Esq., Suffolk University Law School, Boston
- Patricia Whiting, Esq., Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Cambridge
