May 18, 2023
As cases rise, nonprofit trains tenants to defend themselves in court
“After watching our students start to own the courtroom and overcome that fear of facing a judge, they started to win with confidence and I realized it was a totally doable thing,” said Elena I. Popp, executive director and trial attorney with Eviction Defense Network.
Over the past year, Eviction Defense Network, a nonprofit group of lawyers defending tenants facing residential evictions across Los Angeles County, has been using an in-house program to train its clients to represent themselves in court.
“We started this program out of necessity and I was disgusted with even thinking that people should go to court alone,” according to the group’s executive director and trial attorney, Elena I. Popp. “But ...
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