Webinars by the Access Commission

The California Access to Justice Commission’s past recorded webinars and their materials are accessible below. If you are looking for an upcoming webinar, please navigate to our Calendar page.

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  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness: FAQs
    • 10/11/22

    Public Service Loan Forgiveness: FAQs

    Heather Jarvis provides answers to Frequently Asked Questions covering:

    – President Biden’s one-time debt cancelation

    – PSLF Waiver ends October 31, 2022

    – COVID-19 payment suspension, interest waiver, moratorium on collections ends December 31, 2022

    – “Fresh Start” for loans in default

    – Proposed new Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plan

    – Proposed new Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) rules

    Important links mentioned:

    https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement/

    https://www.ed.gov/subscriptions

    https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/idr-account-adjustment

    https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/pslf-limited-waiver

    https://studentaid.gov/feedback-center/

    https://studentaid.gov/feedback-ombudsman/disputes/prepare

    https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/fedloan-stop-servicing-loans

    https://forgivemystudentdebt.org/faq/

    https://www.mohela.com/DL/ResourceCenter/PSLFServicerTransfer.aspx

    https://protectborrowers.org/our-projects/pslf/

    Watch her two previous webinars, Public Service Loan Forgiveness Expanded To Previously Ineligible Borrowers and Public Service Loan Forgiveness Q&A to get access to the recordings, slides, additional materials, and over 70 responses to the FAQs asked during the first live webinar.

  • Legal Aid Infrastructure & Innovation Grants Informational Webinar (2022-2023)

    Legal Aid Infrastructure & Innovation Grants Informational Webinar (2022-2023)

    This webinar was recorded on September 29, 2022 for the 2022-2023 Grant Cycle. The dates are out of date but the information presented is still applicable.

  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness: Questions & Answers
    • 9/15/22

    Public Service Loan Forgiveness: Questions & Answers

    Watch student loan expert & attorney Heather Jarvis for a dedicated Q&A session focused on:

    – President Biden’s one-time debt cancelation

    – PSLF Waiver ends October 31, 2022

    – COVID-19 payment suspension, interest waiver, moratorium on collections ends December 31, 2022

    – “Fresh Start” for loans in default

    – Proposed new Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plan

    – Proposed new Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) rules

    Download the materials for this webinar here.

    Watch her previous webinar, Public Service Loan Forgiveness Expanded To Previously Ineligible Borrowers here and get access to the slides, additional materials, and over 70 responses to the FAQs asked during the live webinar.

  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness Expanded to Previously Ineligible Borrowers
    • 6/9/22

    Public Service Loan Forgiveness Expanded to Previously Ineligible Borrowers

    Scores of experienced public service workers have been frustrated in their attempts to qualify for loan cancellation under Public Service Loan Forgiveness. They were told they had the “wrong kind” of loans or that payments they made “didn’t count” towards the 120 qualifying payments required to earn forgiveness. On Oct. 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Education announced a Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Limited Waiver Opportunity. For a limited time, restrictive requirements regarding loan type and repayment plan have been waived. Even if you were previously ineligible, you now may qualify for credit toward forgiveness for public service work done since 2007.

    Hear from Heather Jarvis, attorney and student loan expert, for this briefing for borrowers and learn about:

    * Expansion of eligible loan types

    * Confirming whether your employment qualifies

    * Determining whether you need to consolidate (or reconsolidate)

    * Documenting your employment

    * Planning for future rule changes

    Answers to some of the questions asked in the webinar chat are available here.

    Download the presentation slides and other materials.

  • Racial Justice for Workers During COVID: Ensuring Greater Equity During Tough Times

    Racial Justice for Workers During COVID: Ensuring Greater Equity During Tough Times

    Racial Justice for Workers During COVID: Ensuring Greater Equity During Tough Times is a Know Your Rights webinar on worker rights during COVID-19 through a racial justice and equity lens. This webinar brings together experts from various legal and community based organizations. This webinar focuses on farm workers, restaurant workers, and those who work in nail/ hair salons or massage parlors.

    1 hour of Elimination of Bias MCLE credit

    Speakers:

    Betty Duong, Santa Clara Dept. of Labor Standards & Enforcement

    Matthew DeCarolis, Employment Rights Project, Bet Tzedek

    Suguet Lopez, Executive Director, Lideres Campesinas

    Panida Rzonca, Thai Community Development Center

    The MCLE can be claimed here.

  • After the Moratorium: Balancing the Equities in Unlawful Detainer Cases through an Anti-Racist Lens

    After the Moratorium: Balancing the Equities in Unlawful Detainer Cases through an Anti-Racist Lens

    Courts, attorneys, litigants and the state of California are facing unprecedented challenges arising from the pandemic, economic downturn, widespread awakening to long-standing systemic racism experienced by people of color, and an onslaught of evictions that will tax the courts and the courts’ capacity to provide access to justice. How can we meet these challenges and provide litigants in unlawful detainer cases with equitable, respectful, compassionate, and just results and experiences? Awareness of how racism and trauma impact litigants, the unlawful detainer process, and the courtroom experience can better equip us to balance the equities while facing these challenges.

    Hear from keynote speaker Terrence Roberts who is one of the Little Rock Nine, who, in 1957, were the first Black students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1999, he and the members of the Little Rock Nine were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President Bill Clinton. Learn more about current challenges facing renters and landlords. Take away tips from leading judicial branch educators about working with litigants, demeanor, communication, and handling remote hearings while providing litigants with a trauma-informed experience.

    This symposium qualifies for 2 hours Elimination of Bias California MCLE credit. Please email Jkaddoura@CalATJ.org to claim your certificate.

    Speakers:

    Bonnie Hough, Attorney, Judicial Council

    Judge Mark Juhas, Judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court

    Jack Londen, Executive Director, Cal ATJ and Partner, Morrison & Foerster

    Saba Mwine, Senior Program Manager at Corporation for Supportive Housing

    Dr. Terrence Roberts, Civil Rights Leader

    Panida Rzonca, Directing Attorney, Thai Community Development Center

    Nisha Vyas, Attorney, Western Center on Law and Poverty

    Judge Erica Yew, Judge, Santa Clara County Superior Court

    Materials:

    The PowerPoint is available here.

    Racial Trauma: Perspectives & Practices for Understanding and Healing (Curated by Saba Mwine & co-created with Dr. Wendy Ashley, Rhiannon Diaz and LaRae Cantley)

    Me & White Supremacy by Layla Saad

    Intersectionality Matters Podcast by Kimberlé Crenshaw