A free seminar, “Landlord-Tenant Issues,” will be held 7-9 p.m. March 7 at the New Jersey Law Center off Ryders Lane in New Brunswick. The seminar is sponsored by the New Jersey State Bar Foundation and is open to the public.
Speakers will include Michael Gildenberg, a senior staff attorney with Central Jersey Legal Services (CJLS), and Scott Conover, a former senior staff attorney with Ocean-Monmouth Legal Services. They will discuss moving-related issues, the New Jersey Anti-Eviction Act, security deposits, protected tenancies and the purchase and sale of rental property. A questionand answer session will follow the presentations.
Through CJLS, Gildenberg represents low-income clients in landlord-tenant, Section 8, public housing and summary dispossess actions. He also conducts legal-education presentations to the community on tenant rights. Gildenberg is a graduate of Lehigh University and received his law degree from Syracuse University College of Law.
Conover is the former chair and current secretary of the Fair Housing Board of Monmouth County and is a mediator for the Superior Court of New Jersey, Ocean and Monmouth counties. His primary duties with Legal Services involved dealing with landlord/tenancy and elder law. A graduate of Villanova University and Vermont Law School, he is a member of the Monmouth and Ocean county bar associations and has received the Legal Services of New Jersey Outstanding Attorney Award. He is a trustee and treasurer of his homeowners’ association.
Admission to the seminar is free, but reservations are required. To register or for more information on Foundation seminars, programs and publications, visit www.njsbf.org or call 800-FREE-LAW. The Foundation’s seminar series is made possible by funding from the IOLTA Fund of the Bar of New Jersey.
For those who would like to make a tax-deductible donation to the foundation, visit www.njsbf.org/donate.