Lisa Sitkin, Staff Attorney, Housing & Economic Rights Advocates

Lisa Sitkin has been practicing law since 1997, when she graduated from the Stanford Law School. Prior to joining HERA, Ms. Sitkin litigated civil rights, media law, intellectual property and advertising cases, as well as providing advice and counseling to newspapers, publishers, businesses and individuals on matters ranging from intellectual property to libel law to fair credit reporting. At HERA, Ms. Sitkin counsels individual clients, assists with predatory lending and related litigation and serves as a consumer advocate vis-à-vis lenders, loan servicers and legislative bodies. Since joining HERA, Ms. Sitkin has conducted numerous workshops and trainings regarding mortgages, foreclosures, loan modification and foreclosure rescue scams, including workshops produced by the Practicing Law Institute. She is also co-author of an article about post-foreclosure evictions, published in the July/August 2009 issue of the Clearinghouse Review, a journal of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.