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Tuesday April 13
2021
 Life After Engel: Limitations on the Statute of Limitations in Residential Foreclosures

The Court of Appeals’ recent decision in Freedom Mortgage v. Engel significantly changed the statute of limitations landscape in mortgage foreclosure cases in New York. This session will analyze the decision and the scope of its impact, and will discuss strategies that advocates can use to best position their cases in the post-Engel world. Note: This session is not a comprehensive update or introduction on statute of limitations issues in foreclosure cases—it is devoted to analyzing Engel and developing strategies in light of Engel, and basic familiarity with statute of limitations principles as applied to foreclosure cases is presumed.

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  • When
    Tuesday, April 13, 2021
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • CLE Credits
    Areas of Professional Practice: 1.00
  • Format
    Webinar: Questions Allowed During Program
  • Practice Area(s)
    Foreclosure
  • Price: $0
  • Materials
    Contains 1 training item(s)

About the Faculty

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    Jacob Inwald (Speaker)

    Jacob Inwald is Director of Litigation—Economic Justice at Legal Services NYC, where he supervises LSNYC’s foreclosure prevention, anti-predatory lending and fair lending practice, which encompasses a range of foreclosure prevention and affirmative litigation at Legal Services NYC’s offices across New York City. He supports the statewide network of non-profit foreclosure prevention advocates as technical assistance subcontractor to the Center for New York City Neighborhoods, which is the New York State Attorney General’s Home Owner Protection Program (“HOPP”) Anchor Partner for New York City. Jay came to LSNYC in 2009, after nearly 25 years in private practice as a commercial litigator, most recently at the firm now-known-as Dentons, bringing considerable litigation expertise to LSNYC’s foreclosure and fair lending practices, one of the oldest and largest in the country, with practices representing homeowners in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. He is a statewide expert on foreclosure law and policy, regularly conducts trainings on civil procedure, foreclosure law and consumer protection throughout New York City, across New York State, and across the country, and he has played a leading role in developing and maintaining an on-line foreclosure practice resource used by non-profit foreclosure defense practitioners across New York State. He presently serves on the New York City Bar Association’s Foreclosure Task Force and has also served on its Litigation Committee and its Committee on Law Student Perspectives. He is a former co-chair of the Homeownership Working Group of New Yorkers for Responsible Lending and he serves on the New York State Department of Financial Services Consumer Advisory Board. Since 1993, Jay has served as a pro bono arbitrator in the Civil Court of the State of New York, Small Claims Division. After graduating from George Washington University Law School magna cum laude in 1984, where he was Notes Editor of the Law Review, Jay served as a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, California before returning to New York to begin practicing law on Wall Street. Jay graduated summa cum laude, with High Honors in History, from Brandeis University in 1981, where he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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    Sara Manaugh (Speaker)

    Sara is the Director of Litigation at Brooklyn Legal Services, where she works with advocates in all of the practice areas in the project’s four offices, supporting ongoing cases, consulting on ethical procedural, and substantive issues, spearheading training and policy initiatives, and strategizing on bringing new impact litigation.  Sara previously served as the director of the Homeowner Defense Project at Staten Island Legal Services, the Deputy Director of the Homeowner and Consumer Rights Project at Queens Legal Services, and a staff attorney in the Foreclosure Prevention Project at what was then known as South Brooklyn Legal Services, defending homeowners in foreclosure actions; participating in affirmative litigation primarily relating to predatory lending, unfair debt collection practices, and mortgage and real estate fraud; and advocating for homeowners in court-mediated settlement conferences.  She has participated in the trial of two complex fair lending and fair housing actions in federal court.  Before her work in legal services organizations, Sara served as law clerk to two federal judges and worked as a litigation associate at a large law firm in Manhattan.  She holds a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.
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    Christopher Newton (Speaker)

    Christopher Newton (he, him) is the Director of the Litigation at Queens Legal Services. He was previously the director of the Homeowner & Consumer Rights Project at QLS, and began his career at QLS as a staff attorney representing survivors of Hurricane Sandy in a range of issues including disaster benefits, insurance and contractor disputes, foreclosure prevention, and consumer rights. Chris is a graduate of Campbell University and St. John's University School of Law.