Materials from two recent Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Training events, a webinar entitled What the Public Interest Lawyer Should Know about Employment Law  and the 2013 PA Legal Aid Network Housing Law Training, are now available on the PLAN website.

The materials are available for the following events:

• What the Public Interest Lawyer Should Know about Employment Law

  This webinar was presented on November 13, 2013 by Sharon Dietrich, Managing Attorney of the Employment Law Unit at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia.

  This webinar was inteneded for legal aid and other public interest lawyers who do not practice employment law. It will give you a basic grounding on employment law as it affects low income people in 60 short minutes.
  
  Available: Recording of the Webinar

• 2013 PA Legal Aid Network Housing Law Training

  The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Housing Law Group presented its 2013 PA Legal Aid Network Housing Law Training on November 19, 2013 in Harrisburg, PA.
  
  Topics coverd included:

  • Domestic Violence and local nuisance ordinances 
  • False claims/side payments to Section 8 landlords 
  • Foreclosure - The Vukman case, Act 91, and Act 6 
  • Reasonable accommodation of people with disabilites 
  • Abandoned Property – the new statute (68 PS 250.505a) and current attempts to amend it
  • Hearsay - state and federal limits on hearsay in PHA termination hearings 
  • Servicing Standards; Update on FHA Loss Mitigation; and Working with the Attorney General to enforce the National Mortgage Settlement 

Available: Handout Materials from the Training.