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DVD - CLARO: Student Loans & Assistance to Consumers With Federal and Private Student Debt

This training will provide an overview of student loans and consumer debt collection and is targeted to pro bono attorneys assisting consumers in limited-scope programs.  The training will provide an introduction to opportunities for self-help, advocacy and relief for economically distressed student loan debtors pre-litigation.  The training will also review key defenses in student loan debt collection actions; preparing and responding to discovery; and opposing motions for summary judgment.

This training was filmed on December 4, 2015.

  • CLE Credits
    Areas of Professional Practice: 3.00
  • Format
    On-Demand/Recorded - Audio/Video File
  • Practice Area(s)
    Consumer/Bankruptcy Law
  • Price: $0
  • Duration: 3

About the Faculty

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    Yan Cao (Panel Member)

    Yan Cao is a Staff Attorney and Skadden Fellow at South Brooklyn Legal Services. She advises and represents low-income clients on student loan issues including managing unaffordable federal and private student loan debt, defending against predatory lending, and discharging debt from schools that engage in fraudulent practices. Yan is a graduate of Stanford University and NYU Law School; prior to joining Legal Services, she clerked for Judge J. Paul Oetken of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Judge Raymond J. Lohier Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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    Evan Denerstein (Panel Member)

    Evan Denerstein is a Senior Staff Attorney at MFY Legal Services' Consumer Rights Project. The Consumer Rights Project provides advice, counsel, education and representation to low-income individuals on a range of consumer issues, prioritizing direct services to people living on fixed incomes and people with disabilities. Prior to joining MFY, Evan assisted clients on a variety of consumer issues as a Staff Attorney at The Financial Clinic. Evan received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley (2004) and his J.D. cum laude from Brooklyn Law School (2010).
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    Dora Galacatos (Panel Member)

    Senior Counsel to the Feerick Center, is a Fordham Law alumna (1996), with experience working in city government, the not-for-profit sector, and legal services for low-income individuals. Prior to coming to Law School, Dora worked for the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice and the New York City for Mayor's Office of Drug Abuse Policy from 1989 to 1993, where she focused on program development, program evaluation, and policy analysis. As part of a Skadden Fellowship (1997-98), Dora helped establish a family day care network at Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Dora had served as Staff Director to the New York City Family Homelessness Special Master Panel, working alongside John Feerick. Dora also served as a law clerk to the late-Honorable Milton Pollack (1996-97) and, more recently, to the Honorable Paul A. Crotty (2005-2006), both District Judges in the Southern District of New York. Dora is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in History (1987), and the New School for Social Research, where she was a Kaplan M. Fellow and received a Master of Science in Urban Policy (1993).
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    Shanna Tallarico (Speaker)

    Shanna Tallarico is a Supervising Attorney with the New York Legal Assistance Group’s (NYLAG) Consumer Protection Unit (CPU) serving clients facing an array of consumer-related legal challenges. As an attorney for NYLAG’s Consumer Protection Project, Shanna represents vulnerable New Yorkers by fighting fraud, predatory lending, and illegal debt collection practices. Shanna advocates on behalf of clients who are facing identity theft, debt collection scams, credit reporting errors, subprime loan conditions, and other personal financial crises. Shanna serves as a project attorney for the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs Office of Financial Empowerment (“OFE”) project. Through this program, she provides legal advice and guidance to OFE financial counselors, and assists clients with consumer financial issues with a particular focus on student debt. Shanna spearheaded Volunteer Lawyer for a Day (“VLFD”) – Consumer Credit Project in the Bronx, Queens and Richmond Counties, a high impact program sanctioned by the New York Office of Court Administration. The VLFD program is housed in the county courthouses and provides free limited-scope representation to thousands of unrepresented consumer-litigants in New York City. She also performs bankruptcy-related work through CPU’s Bankruptcy Project. Through this project, Shanna provides advice and pro se assistance for people exploring bankruptcy as an option for dealing with debt, and provides full representation on our client’s bankruptcy cases. Shanna conducts trainings for attorneys and advocates on consumer debt matters including trainings coordinated by National Consumer Law Center, New York State Courts Access to Justice, Bridge-the-Gap Consumer Debt CLE Program, NYC Department of Consumer Affairs Office of Financial Empowerment, the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund, The Capitol Forum, and Legal Services NYC as well as asked to present at consumer advocacy meetings, and participate on panel discussions addressing consumer law topics. Shanna focuses her litigation work on issues related to auto-fraud, private student loans, and affirmative consumer claims.