COMBO Title and Securitization Search, Report, Documents, Analysis & Commentary “In its S.E.C. filing, Prommis alerted potential investors that it could face challenges from bar associations, prosecutors or homeowners that its relationship with its law firms constituted the “unauthorized practice of law” or involved “impermissible fee sharing” arrangements.” “The relationship between the Wall Street specialists […]

Tags: Ares Capital, David J Stern, FTV Capital, Great Hill Partners, Hunt Leibert Jacobson, Iowa attorney general, Lender Processing Services, LPS, Pillar Processing, Prommis, Steven J Baum, Tailwind, Tom Miller, unauthroized practice of law, UPL, Volentine
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Administrative Law is one of those areas that interest only academics like me. It isn’t sexy but it carries BIG teeth. Sometimes it is easier to crack the shell of the titans by an unexpected move where you win hands down and there isn’t much work to do. It’s kind of like taking down AL […]

Tags: administrative law, false and deceptive, felony, Florida Bar, Florida Supreme Court, grievance, imprisonment, license, private right of action for damages, Quicken Loans, regulatory board, RESPA, table-funded, TILA, Unauthorized Practice of Law, UPL
Posted in Corruption, evidence, expert witness, foreclosure mill, Modification, securities fraud, Servicer |

‘Ghostwriting’ Lawyers Can Remain Cloaked, but Not for Tactical Advantage Charles Toutant 01-29-2008 A federal magistrate judge’s ruling last year that “ghostwriting” pleadings for a pro se litigant violates a lawyer’s ethical duty of candor to the court has caused an uproar loud enough to get a New Jersey Supreme Court ethics committee’s attention. In […]

Tags: foreclosure defense, pro se, UPL
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State Bar Associations are wrestling with the issues of “Ghost-Writing” and Unauthorized Practice of Law. On the one hand it is obvious that substantial additional education is required for local lawyers to properly file their schedules in bankruptcy petitions or properly defend the foreclosures in state courts. On the other hand, despite the paucity of […]

Tags: foreclosure defense, ghost writing, local counsel, pro se, UPL
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AUDITS, REPORTS AND DEMANDS DO NOT STOP NOTICES OF SALE, FORECLOSURES, JUDGMENTS, SALES OR EVICTIONS. ONLY AN ORDER ENTERED BY A JUDGE OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION CAN HAVE THAT EFFECT. Our objective is to get to as many people as possible who were or are effected by the mortgage meltdown practices between 2001-2008. We are allowing […]

Tags: AUDITS, foreclosure defense, TILA audit, UPL
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