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DVD - Negotiations and Stipulations in Housing Court

This training will offer strategies and tips for conducting persuasive negotiations and writing effective stipulations in housing court. We will discuss the importance of negotiations throughout all stages of the advocacy process and provide tools for engaging in persuasive negotiations. You will learn the salient ethical issues surrounding negotiating for clients and the proper disclosure of information. In addition, the trainers will address practice standards in filing motions and the consequences of failing to abide by standards, particularly in the context of stipulations. Finally, the trainers will provide insight into drafting a variety of stipulations commonly used in housing court including: nonpay no judgments, nonpay judgments, nonpay discontinuance, holdover chronic rent delinquency, holdover nuisance behavior, and move outs/buyouts. Participants will hear about the successes and pitfalls encountered by tenant attorneys when drafting stipulations, and will gain experience drafting sample stipulations.

Filmed on July 20, 2015.

  • CLE Credits
    Ethics and Professionalism: 0.50
    Skills: 2.00
  • Format
    On-Demand/Recorded - Audio/Video File
  • Practice Area(s)
    Housing
    Legal Practice
    Practice Skills
  • Price: $150
  • Duration: 21:0

About the Faculty

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    Sandhya Boyd (Speaker)

    Sandhya Reju Boyd is the Director of Housing at Brooklyn Legal Services. She previously served as the Director of Housing at Manhattan Legal Services (Oct 2013 through August 2015), and the founding Executive Director of Brooklyn Jubilee (May 2006 through November 2013). She was a staff attorney at South Brooklyn Legal Services (2000 through 2007), and the Director of Housing Litigation at Bed-Stuy Legal Services office (2007 to 2009). She has been a poverty lawyer for seventeen years, with a wide range of legal experience including public benefits, bankruptcy, family law and legal assistance to disaster survivors.
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    Edward Josephson (Speaker)

    Edward Josephson is currently the Director of Litigation at Legal Services NYC and at Brooklyn Legal Services. From 1996-2003, he was the Director of the Housing Law Unit at South Brooklyn. He has defended tenants in eviction proceedings since 1988. Mr. Josephson has litigated a number of affirmative cases on issues of significance to low income New Yorkers, including Grimm v. DHCR, which expanded landlords' liability for rent overcharges; Brooklyn Tenants v. Lynch, a challenge to pro-landlord amendments to the Rent Stabilization Code; Campos v. Rhea and Torres v. Martinez, federal actions that helped reform procedures in the Section 8 rent subsidy program; Frunzescu v. Martinez, which expedited the issuance of emergency Section 8 subsidy transfers; and Lang v. Pataki, a constitutional challenge to laws requiring rent deposits by indigent tenants. He has also litigated numerous cases in federal district and bankruptcy courts to protect the rights of tenants in federally subsidized housing projects. Mr. Josephson is a graduate of NYU Law School.
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    Nadya Rosen (Speaker)

    Nadya E. Rosen joined SBLS in June 2007. She currently supervises attorneys, paralegals, and students in the Housing unit, a unit that represents tenants in eviction proceedings and in obtaining necessary repairs to their homes. Previously Ms. Rosen was a supervisor in the Family Law/DV Unit at SBLS, supervising attorneys and representing victim/survivors of domestic violence in Brooklyn's Family, Supreme and Integrated Domestic Violence courts. She also provides advice and representation to clients in the Veteran's Justice and LGBT Projects in Brooklyn. Ms. Rosen worked as the lead attorney for the Caregivers Legal Support Center at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and clerked for Hon. Saralee Evans in New York State Supreme Court. Ms. Rosen received a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a J.D. from City University of New York School of Law.