The host is pleased to offer this program to an in-person audience in the Boston conference center in addition to the live and recorded webcasts. Masks are encouraged.
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.
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 - 9:45amWelcome and Introduction
Annette R. Duke, Esq.,
MLRI, Boston
9:45am - 10:30am
Evictions I
Hed Ehrlich, Esq.,
Greater Boston Legal Services, Boston
10:30am - 10:40am
Networking and Refreshment Break
10:40am - 11:25am
Evictions II
Patricia Whiting, Esq.,
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Cambridge
11:25am - 11:45am
Questions on Evictions
11:45am - 12:30pm
Lunch (on your own)
12:30pm - 1:00pm
MLRI: Tenants' Rights: MADE Online
Quinten Steenhuis, Esq.,
Suffolk University Law School, Boston
1:00pm - 1:45pm
MLRI: Tenants' Rights: Getting Repairs Made
David Brown, Esq.,
Community Legal Aid, Worcester
1:45pm - 1:55pm
Networking and Refreshment Break
1:55pm - 2:40pm
Housing Discrimination
Maureen R. St. Cyr, Esq.,
Massachusetts Fair Housing, Holyoke
2:40pm - 3:05pm
Rent
Colleen Joanna Hibbert-Kapler, Esq.,
3:05pm - 3:30pm
MLRI: Tenants' Rights: 'Ask the Experts' Q&A Session and Key Takeaways
Please Note
This webcast is 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.
Speakers
ChairAnnette R. Duke, Esq.,
MLRI, Boston
Faculty
David Brown, Esq.,
Community Legal Aid, Worcester
Hed Ehrlich, Esq.,
Greater Boston Legal Services, Boston
Colleen Joanna Hibbert-Kapler, Esq.,
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
