MPLP Educates Consumer Advocates from Across Midwest

Author

Elizabeth Benton

Post Date

05/01/2025

Interest Area

Consumer

Foreclosure

From April 16-18, 2025, the Michigan Poverty Law Program hosted the Committee on Regional Training’s Consumer Law training in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The training brought together 63 legal aid attorneys from four states—Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia—to learn how to protect low-income consumers from predatory and unfair practices.

The training featured national experts from the National Consumer Law Center, Notre Dame Law School, and AARP Foundation, as well as presentations from leading attorneys in private practice. Advocates left the training better equipped to:

Prevent unnecessary foreclosures and help borrowers obtain loan modifications and payment plans
Preserve intergenerational wealth, especially in communities of color, by preventing reverse mortgage foreclosures and addressing heirs property issues
Combat unfair and deceptive auto sales practices, and
Fight for consumers subject to illegal and unjust debt collection practices.

For information on MPLP’s upcoming trainings, visit our events page.

Steve Sharpe, Senior Attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, presents on strategies to help borrowers with FHA and VA loans avoid foreclosure.

Lorray Brown, MSAS Executive Director, and Libby Benton, MPLP Director/Consumer Attorney, with Steve Sharpe, Senior Attorney at the NCLC — Lorray Brown, Michigan Statewide Advocacy Services Executive Director, and Libby Benton, Michigan Poverty Law Program Director/Consumer Attorney, with Steve Sharpe, Senior Attorney at the National Consumer Law Center.

MPLP Educates Consumer Advocates from Across Midwest

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