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Rent Overcharge Update 2017

This class will present an overview of issues relating to rent overcharge claims in rent stabilized apartments, with a special emphasis on applications of the ‘four year rule.’ The presentation will include the latest developments in the relevant case law and a discussion of the 2014 amendments to the Rent Stabilization Code.

  • CLE Credits
    Areas of Professional Practice: 3.00
  • Format
    On-Demand/Recorded - Audio/Video File
  • Practice Area(s)
    Housing
  • Price: $0
  • Materials
    Contains 1 training item(s)

About the Faculty

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    Coco Joly (Speaker)

    Coco (she, her) is a Deputy Director in the Housing Unit in Brooklyn. Coco served as a law clerk in the Special Civil Part in the Superior Court of New Jersey for the 2013-2014 term. After clerking, Coco started as a staff attorney in the housing unit at Bronx Legal Services in 2014, and transferred to Brooklyn in 2017. Coco received a J.D from CUNY School of Law in 2013 and a B.S. from the University of Vermont in 2007.
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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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    Samar Katnani (Speaker)

    Samar Katnani is a Deputy Director with the Tenant Rights Coalition (TRC) at Brooklyn Legal Services. The TRC works to empower communities and tenants to work collaboratively to protect affordable housing and fight inequity and displacement. Samar represents clients before federal and state courts and agencies in group and individual cases, protecting tenants’ rights and holding landlords accountable. Samar received her B.A. from the University of Virginia in 2004 and a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis Law School in 2010. Before joining the TRC in 2015, Samar was a sixth grade teacher in the Bronx and worked as an associate at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.