Learn the latest on Mastering Foreclosures & MERS with this convenient, 24/7 On-demand Seminar & Complimentary Podcast. Register to obtain CLE & MCLE credit, online access to complete course & reference materials, and attend this on-demand seminar. YOU MAY LISTEN FROM ALMOST ANY TYPE OF COMPUTER OR IPOD. ACCESS TO THE RECORDING AND MATERIALS DOES NOT EXPIRE.

Benefits:

Foreclosure practice has become one of the strongest and most profitable practice areas in this weak economy. Today, banks and other creditors have retained record numbers of attorneys to foreclose on loans, repossess property, and obtain favorable workouts. At the same time, there has been a surge of demand for debtors’ counsel to defend millions of homeowners facing foreclosures, stringent modifications, defaults, and pre-ordained workouts. In addition, foreclosure practitioners must understand the use of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems. The laws across the country have changed dramatically as the federal and state governments have altered procedures, rules, and practices to curb overly aggressive creditors while simultaneously halting abuses by the defense bar. This seminar covers the latest techniques to equip attorneys with the skills necessary to advantage clients and grow their practice. Learn from our distinguished and nationally respected faculty, who will share the best practices and tactics to represent lenders, banks, home owners, debtors, and institutional clients. Registration includes access to course and reference materials that serve as a helpful guide to the numerous topics and techniques discussed in the seminar.

Agenda:

1. Best Practices for Lenders & Creditors:

a. Collection Procedures & Avoiding Foreclosure Pitfalls

b. Executing Against Debtors’ Assets

c. Understanding Garnishments, Redemption, Reinstatement and Possession

d. Judicial and Nonjudicial Foreclosure Procedures

e. Seizing Property Without Hassle

f. Effectively Utilizing Receiverships

g. Documents Essential To Repossessions

2. Foreclosure Defense:

a. Mastering Preliminary Defenses & Obtaining Fees

b. Understanding Mortgage Procedures, including Securitization, Trusts, and Residential Mortgage-backed Securities

c. Effectively Utilizing Loan Documents

d. Servicing Problems Post Origination Issues

e. Understanding How Bankruptcy Affects Foreclosure

f. Eviction Proceedings

g. Securitization, Insurances, and Credit Enhancements

3. Tactics to Represent Homeowners:

a. The Role of Mortgage Electronic Registration System

b. “Robo-Signers” & Mortgage Fraud

c. State & Federal Law Causes of Action and Affirmative Defenses

d. Drafting, Discovery, & Effective Motion Practice

e. Discovery (including Objections)

f. Filing and Defending Dispositive Motions

4. Recorded Question & Answer Session

Biography of Seminar Faculty:

1. Andrew K. Stutzman is a trial lawyer who chairs the Mortgage and Lending Litigation Practice at the 200-lawyer firm of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP. Mr. Stutzman’s team resolves consumer disputes with financial products, including residential mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, short-term loans, secured or unsecured credit, insurance, and other financial or debt products, that may arise from origination, servicing, reporting, collection, repurchase, bankruptcy, and other activity. The team also assists commercial lenders in claims that may involve defaults, confessed judgments, collections, execution and loan workouts, insolvency and receivership issues, and other asset recovery or protection. Further matters may involve financial institution contractual disputes, professional liability claims, and regulatory banking issues. Mr. Stutzman is a highly sought-after lecturer & conference chair on finance related litigation, including foreclosure law. Mr. Stutzman has studied at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, has been named a SuperLawyer, and was appointed by the Governor of his state to serve on one of the largest parking authorities in the nation.

2. Oliver Scott Barber, II is a Partner at Stites & Harbison, PLLC, where he is a member of the firm's Business Litigation and Torts & Insurance Practice Service Groups. Mr. Barber handles a variety of complex matters, including complex commercial litigation, financial institutions concerns, and energy disputes. Mr. Barber has defended complex foreclosure and counterclaim matters for numerous financial institutions, defended complex commercial fraud claims brought against payment system companies, and defended $8 million class action tax fraud claim filed against a national telecommunications company, among a number of sizeable matters. Mr. Barber began his career as a federal law clerk.

3. Brian H. Smith is a Shareholder and member of Stark & Stark’s Bankruptcy & Creditor's Rights Group. Mr. Smith brings over twenty-two years of legal experience to the group, focusing his practice in all aspects of creditors’ rights, including residential and commercial mortgage foreclosures, title insurance defense, ejectments/evictions, replevins, representation of creditors in bankruptcy court, and collections, as well as general commercial litigation. Mr. Smith has been counsel to over 500 mortgage foreclosures and ejectments of both residential and commercial properties and has had multiple successful mortgage reformation actions. He successfully litigated a case, which upheld the right of a lender, whose original mortgage had been lost and never recorded, to seek relief from the automatic stay of 11 U.S.C. sec. 362 to pursue a state court quiet title action to permit a copy of the mortgage to be recorded as if the original, and therefore avoid “unsecured creditor” status in the underlying bankruptcy. Mr. Smith is a frequent lecturer and author on mortgage foreclosures and evictions.

Who should attend this seminar?
Attorneys, paralegals, and legal professionals.

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Colorado Supreme Court Board of Continuing Legal & Judicial Education for 1.8 CLE Credits

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New Mexico Minimum Continuing Legal Education Board for 1.5 CLE credits

New York State Bar for 1.5 CLE credits

North Carolina State Bar Continuing Legal Education for 1.5 CLE credits

Oregon State Bar for 1.5 CLE credits

Rhode Island Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Commission for 1.5 CLE credits

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Texas State Bar for 1.5 CLE credits

Utah State Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.5 MCLE credits

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Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners for 1.5 CLE credits

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