Tax Sale Foreclosure Prevention in Baltimore City

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Learn about Tax Sale Foreclosure in Baltimore City! This is a basic training available to lawyers and housing counselors who are interested in volunteering to assist homeowners and/or nonprofit groups facing tax sale foreclosure in Baltimore City. This training is a joint project between Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS) and PBRC’s Home Preservation Project, and is free to lawyers who agree to attend one Baltimore City tax sale clinic and accept at least one pro bono tax foreclosure case within one year of registering. This training is also free to housing counselors who agree to attend one Baltimore City tax sale clinic within one year of registering.

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Existing volunteers have taken a prior tax sale foreclosure prevention training with PBRC AND have previously volunteered through PBRC's HPP's tax sale opportunities. Please tell us the approximate date of the last time you volunteered at a PBRC HPP Tax Sale clinic or the last time you accepted a tax sale case from MVLS.

Please enter all states where you are licensed to practice (including Maryland) and the year and bar number. Attorneys not barred in MD must become specially authorized to practice pro bono in MD (contact Annie Speedie at aspeedie@probonomd.org for more information).

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Training & Pro Bono Commitment Information

Do you agree to attend one clinic and accept at least one pro bono tax foreclosure case within one year of this registration? Tax sale prevention brief advice clinics will be held in Baltimore City.

Yes, I agree to provide the above referenced pro bono service to homeowners in Baltimore City within one year of this registration.

Please indicate whether you would like to fulfil your pro bono commitment through assisting homeowners, nonprofit community groups or both.

I will represent either homeowners or nonprofit groups as neededI would like to represent homeowners onlyI would like to represent nonprofit groups only

Please confirm that you will not charge a fee to, or solicit or accept any payment from clients referred to you as pro bono clients through this project by typing your initials here:

As a volunteer attorney at tax sale prevention clinics, do you agree that you will not solicit or attempt to solicit or represent clients/attendees present at any clinic unless you are agreeing to represent the clients/attendees on a pro bono basis? Initial to agree.

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Nothing in this agreement precludes me from petitioning the court for fees under a fee-shifting provision while pursuing a statutory affirmative claim on behalf of a client referred to me through the Project.