Join Allegheny County Housing Court staff, Neighborhood Legal Services, Community Justice Project, and the Pittsburgh Pro Bono Partnership for a CLE presentation entitled Arbitrating and Mediating Landlord/Tenant Disputes on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 from 9:00 AM-2:00 PM Eastern. The program will be held in the Jury Assignment Room on the 7th Floor of the City-County Building located at 414 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.

This CLE will provide updates in Landlord-Tenant Law, prepare attorneys to provide mediation and arbitration services, and discuss representing qualifying clients who are going into mediation at the Court of Common Pleas.

Program Schedule

Registration
8:30 am - 9:00 am 

Welcome and Housing Court Introductions
9:00 am to 9:10 am
Dianne Wainwright, Esq. – Deputy Court Administrator, Civil Division

Basic Landlord/Tenant and Subsidized Housing Issues
9:10 am - 11:45 am
Barbara Kern, Esq. - Neighborhood Legal Services
Sarah Morrison, Esq. - Dornish Law Offices P.C.
Daniel Vitek, Esq. - Community Justice Project

Break
10:30 am - 10:45 am

Basic Landlord/Tenant and Subsidized Housing Issues
(Continued)
10:45 am - 11:45 am

 Lunch Break
11:45 am to 12:15 pm

Mediations, Landlord/Tenant Disputes
12:15 pm to 2:00 pm
Housing Court Judge
Dianne Wainwright, Esq. – Deputy Court Administrator, Civil Division
Antoinette Oliver, Esq. – Pittsburgh Pro Bono Partnership
Jessica Lynch, Esq. – Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania
Quinn Kobelak – Case Management Coordinator

Attorneys can volunteer to serve as a pro bono attorney representing tenants in mediations, and/or they can sign-up to serve as a mediator or an arbitrator with the court.  Attorneys can serve in these roles for a half-day on Thursdays, as often as they would like.

Registration

• Free for attorneys participating in any Pro Bono Landlord Tenant Project as well as Arbitrators and Mediators
• $40 for attorneys who do not want CLE credit
• $80 for attorneys not participating in any Pro Bono Landlord Tenant Project but want CLE credit

For any questions, comments, concerns, or disability accommodation requests, please contact Kitty Terzolino - terzolinoc@nlsa.us.