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2006 Legal Issues Seminar 

July 20-21, 2006

Grand Hyatt
1750 Welton Street
Denver, CO 80202
(303) 295-1234
(303) 292-2472 fax
Maps & Directions

USFN's room rate is $159/night (single/double occupancy). Please specify "USFN Legal Issues Seminar" when booking your room. Hotel cut-off date is June 30. 

Program Agenda (revised 06.15.2006)

Directions from the hotel to Thursday night's cocktail reception and dinner.

Overview: This special seminar, for mortgage servicing company in-house legal counsel, mortgage servicing attorneys, and their paralegals & litigation managers, will provide important updates and discussion on our industry's most critical legal issues.

Registration Details:

Click here to download the Brochure
Click here to download only the Registration Form

Cost is $425 for a company's first attendee, $295 for each additional person (special rate for "additional person" is applicable to servicing companies/GSEs only)
Early registration deadline is June 23

CLE accreditation for all sessions is being sought in every state with CLE requirements. For attending 4 consecutive sessions (the maximum possible), it is anticipated that attorneys will receive approximately 6.00 hours of CLE credit (7.20 hours for states using a 50-minute hour). Ethics credit, or other specialized CLE hours, is not available. CLE processing fee is $25 per state; see registration form to request a Uniform Certificate of Attendance.

For your convenience, we have provided three easy ways to register. After downloading and saving the registration form to your computer, enter your information (it is a clickable PDF form), re-save it and then either:

1. Email it (please include your credit card information) to register@usfn.org.
2. Print out the completed registration form (please include your credit card information) and fax it to (714) 573-2650.
3. Print out the completed registration form and mail it with your company check (payable to "USFN") to:

USFN
2006 Legal Issues Seminar Registration
14471 Chambers Road, Suite 260
Tustin, CA 92780

Location/Accommodations: Grand Hyatt - Hotel cut-off is Friday, June 30. Rooms may sell-out prior to that date, so we encourage you to confirm your room reservations as soon as possible. We ask that you not use a travel agency to book your room, since our negotiated rates are dependent on all of our attendees being in our room block. Please call (800) 233-1234 to reserve your room today. Please refer to "USFN Legal Issues Seminar" when making your reservation to ensure that you receive our special room rate of $159/night, single or double occupancy.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call us at (800) 635-6128 x219.

Airline Discounts:

American - (800) 433-1790
Group Number - 1376AU

Continental Airlines: (800) 468-7022
Group Number/Code: VPZMYB/ZSUQ
Click here for on-line booking w/ Continental (on-line booking code ZSUQ VPZMYB)

Rental Car Discounts:

Avis: (800) 331-1600
Discount Code: D005702
Click here for on-line booking w/ Avis

Panelists: This year, speakers will include a number of knowledgeable, experienced USFN attorneys who will lead and contribute to each of the 6 sessions. We also have a lineup of repeat presenters and new guest speakers who will share their views from fresh and interesting angles. A partial list of confirmed guest speakers and panelists is:

Erin Toll, Deputy Commissioner of Compliance and Market Regulation, Colorado Division of Insurance -- KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Joel Winston, Associate Director of the Division of Privacy & Identity Protection, Federal Trade Commission
LeAnn Pedersen Pope, Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, Chicago, IL
Sharon McGann Horstkamp, General Counsel, MERS
Daniel Gray, Counsel, and Todd Barton, Associate General Counsel, Fannie Mae
Daryl Lyman, Counsel, Washington Mutual

Education Sessions: The seminar will open with a review of high-impact cases and recent legislation. Also offered are four concurrent breakout sessions, providing an opportunity to focus on areas of special interest to you and your company in a highly interactive roundtable setting. Our knowledgeable panelists will drill down on practical aspects related to:

Bankruptcy Reform (court interpretations and rulings)
Class Actions (new theories/judicial decisions)
MERS and Foreclosure-Related Issues (QWRs, militia, pre-signed affidavits)
Mortgage Fraud and Current Topics
The closing will be a moderated general session with panelists responding to questions on Key Points to Take Back & Implement. CLE accreditation for all six sessions is currently pending.

Miscellaneous Info:

Directions from the hotel to Castle Meinhold & Stawiarski, L.L.C. and the Denver Chophouse.

Thursday cocktails will be hosted by:
        Castle Meinhold & Stawiarski, L.L.C.
        999 18th St., Ste. 2201
        Denver, CO 80202-2402
        (303) 865-1400

Thursday dinner will be provided at the Denver ChopHouse and Brewery.