If any private sector attorney thinks that he or she can practice autonomously, hidden away in a little box, pretending to exist under some sort of imaginary radar... and that somehow federal or state regulators are supposed to know that... (Continue reading)
I'll jump in with an answer to that one: Because the banking lobby isn't interested in promoting those... they're only interested in promoting stuff about loan modifications because they don't want homeowners to have professionals helping them when attempting... (Continue reading)
Extending unsecured credit to homeowners that are already struggling to pay their bills, and then having to sue them in order to collect simply isn't a business model that attorneys, or anyone else for that matter, are likely to embrace.... (Continue reading)
Further, if the legislature is allowed to affect attorney compensation practices in this instance, what will they attempt to limit next? Homeowners have the right to representation before losing their homes to foreclosure. Attorneys have the right to... (Continue reading)
Yet, here in California, the legislature is dangerously close to passing a bill that would establish quite clearly that lawyers... all lawyers... are individuals not to be trusted. And even more so, that attorneys in large number are the... (Continue reading)
I read her testimony throughout last night, until the sun started to rise outside my window. And when I finished, I sat there and I cried. It's been a long road... and I pray that this document at... (Continue reading)
In 2009, not only did all of that happen... and more, but more importantly, in 2009 we all started to realize that our way of life... the one we've come to know over the last thirty years, would not be... (Continue reading)