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California Bar: Disregards Attorney General’s Views, Screws Homeowners
Written on 10 Dec, 2012 at 12:34
What's even harder to understand is that the State Bar's most recent interpretation of SB 94 completely disagrees with how California Attorney General Harris and Governor Brown interpreted the law in documents filed with the court last year when... (Continue reading)
California State Bar RECENT Decision to Cause More Harm to Homeowners in Foreclosure
Written on 1 Dec, 2012 at 22:30
The recent decision by the state bar court now effectively prohibits the charging of fees by lawyers even AFTER services have been completed. Yes, you read that correctly... lawyers can't take advance fees, nor can they be paid after... (Continue reading)
California State Bar Court Lacks Fundamental Knowledge of Loan Modifications
Written on 24 Jun, 2012 at 4:52
Your state assembly representative and state senator needs to hear from you on this issue. You should care a great deal that you have access to legal counsel should you decide you want or need it... no matter what...... (Continue reading)
Why is CA State Bar Making its Job Protecting Consumers HARDER?
Written on 4 Jun, 2012 at 3:57
The easiest way for California lawyers to lose their licenses is to have a banking irregularity in their trust accounts. ... (Continue reading)
A New Low for the California State Bar – HOMEOWNER & LAWYER ALERT!
Written on 29 May, 2012 at 15:24
Homeowners should take great care when hiring a lawyer for any reason. And I HATE it when anyone gets ripped off for anything, especially when their home is on the line. But this article is a blatant attempt... (Continue reading)
Bar Defense Atty David Carr Exposes the CA Bar on Scammers and SB 94 – A MM Podcast
Written on 2 May, 2012 at 1:40
If you're a lawyer or real estate licensee that has been involved in helping homeowners save their homes from foreclosure over the last few years, or a homeowner struggling to understand the crisis at hand... I PROMISE... YOU DO NOT... (Continue reading)
Bostwick Putting SB 94 and California State Bar on Trial
Written on 24 Jan, 2012 at 8:13
Even some of the people involved in the drafting of California's Senate Bill 94 ("SB 94") back in 2009, recognized that it wasn't going to fix or stop the problems it was addressing, and there's no question that it was... (Continue reading)
DOJ Arrests Attorney Mitchell Stein at LAX – A Mass Clusterf#@k
Written on 21 Dec, 2011 at 8:17
Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division announced today that attorney Mitchell J. Stein was arrested on Sunday, December 18, 2011, at Los Angeles International Airport on charges related to his alleged role in a... (Continue reading)
Mandelman Speaks at California State Bar’s Annual Discipline Hearings
Written on 14 Dec, 2011 at 17:04
I also spoke to the members of the panel about the need for the State Bar to give more careful consideration to how it can better support the legitimate and ethical attorneys that could provide representation to homeowners in need... (Continue reading)
Bull… meet China Shop. SB 94 and the California State Bar, Two Years Later
Written on 30 Oct, 2011 at 8:25
At the California State Bar Association's 84th Annual Meeting, September 17, 2011, Susan Anderson presented what she said is the bar's official interpretation of SB 94, precluding a lawyer from being paid for services related to a loan modification until... (Continue reading)
Dear Banking & Government People Who Are Reading This…
Written on 8 Jun, 2011 at 5:47
You guys all now know that this thing had about as much to do with sub-prime borrowers as World War II. Unless you can point out a sub-prime borrower who was selling synthetic CDOs in Iceland, I think we're... (Continue reading)
A San Diego Attorney Speaks Out on How SB 94 Has Taken Legitimate Lawyers Away from Homeowners
Written on 9 Feb, 2011 at 9:58
SB 94 is simply a law written by the Senate Banking Committee to make it next to impossible for a homeowner to hire a lawyer when at risk of foreclosure. I bet the banks wish they could have passed... (Continue reading)
The FTC Needs a More Reasoned Approach to Stop Loan Mod Scams
Written on 10 May, 2010 at 11:19
Yes, I've walked through this steaming pile of freshness so many times and in so many ways, that I've come to consider the idea that there's something in the water that's causing otherwise intelligent people to lose their capacity for... (Continue reading)
My Year in A-Trance: What I’ve Learned About Loan Modifications
Written on 4 May, 2010 at 1:50
Why the banking lobby starts to look downright puny next to millions of American homeowners all shouting at the same time... "Congress better take note! We intend to use our VOTE!" Yep, after that the foreclosure crisis would... (Continue reading)
The CA State Bar’s Task Force, the OC District Attorney’s Office, Storm Trooper Tactics and Loan Modifications
Written on 23 Apr, 2010 at 5:12
Look... I don't know Christopher Diener, I've never met him, and I don't know anyone who has hired his firm to help with a loan modification. But here's what I do know... if he's guilty of some crime, then... (Continue reading)
ONCE AND FOR ALL, THE ANSWER IS YES. Water is wet, the sky is blue, and you need a lawyer… Period.
Written on 31 Jan, 2010 at 22:02
So, when an attorney fails to get a bank to agree that it would make more sense to modify a loan... when it would, by the way... and the bank forecloses anyway... let's blame the people that are actually to... (Continue reading)
Journalists on Crack: Are Lawyers Turning to Crime in Tough Times?
Written on 25 Jan, 2010 at 6:35
Oh for Christ's sake Miller, don't you have anything better to do than to scare people out of hiring a lawyer when at risk of losing their home? Because that's all this kind of crap is accomplishing, don't you... (Continue reading)
Gov. Arnold Rips the California Bar a New One: Refuses to Sign SB 641
Written on 14 Oct, 2009 at 3:05
There's no question now, but that the Bar is going to have to fix up their own glass house before their going to be allowed to collect dues from their members, and since they've been spending so much of their... (Continue reading)