Important online training on Debt Collection and Arbitration Resources for Pro Se and Pro Bono Cases.

The listing explains it perfectly:

Under a Technology Initiative Grant from LSC, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, in consultation with The National Consumer Law Center, has developed a variety of materials to expand assistance to low income consumers facing aggressive debt collection efforts in the courts or through arbitration.

The resources include brochures and videos designed for consumers and pleadings and case development materials designed for attorneys, particularly pro bono attorneys who may not have experience in debt collection or arbitration cases.

This webinar will introduce you to the resources already available and still being developed, and point out ways these resources can be customized for use in your state or program.  There will also be an opportunity to suggest additional resources that you would like to see developed as part of this or other TIG projects.

Presenters: Kristin S. Verrill, Atlanta Legal Aid Society; Arielle Cohen, National Consumer Law Center.

An additional thought, that I have never seen made:  If we had had sufficient advocacy and access around foreclosure and debt issues, then the problems of robo-signing, lack of record-keeping for securitization, and outright fraud would not have been allowed to fester so long without attention.  Now they their legacy threatens the world economy.  Everyone benefits from system of checks and balances, and advocacy and access for all is needed to provide that.  This a very broad argument for advocacy and access.  I only hope we can find a relatively non-ideological way to make the argument.