A Florida judge accused of telling a bank lawyer he couldn’t sit in his office “smoking his Cohiba cigars and drinking his lattes” while the court does it work has…
Four New York lawyers are among eight individuals indicted in an alleged $1.4 million equity-stripping scheme involving four homeowners in the New York City suburbs.
A 47-year-old New York real estate lawyer who has been working since 2002 at Excelsior Title has been criminally charged for allegedly stealing at least $400,000 from clients.
Mortgage industry data released today shows that delinquencies and foreclosures nationwide topped 13 percent in the second quarter of 2009, the highest level ever since the Mortgage Bankers Association began…
A new lawsuit has been filed against Wells Fargo & Co. over its home equity line practices, adding to a growing list of litigation against the mortgage lender for which…
Kenneth Loewinger has written a treatise on landlord-tenant law in Washington, D.C., that is relied on by judges. But the veteran practitioner, who has been a lawyer since 1971, was…
A Florida judge who declared a mistrial earlier this year after a company CEO texted an executive about his testimony during a brief trial break has now imposed additional sanctions…
Updating a more than 200-year-old law against stealing the material in the historic stone walls that line much of New Hampshire’s farmlands and woods, the state’s governor has just signed…
Much has been said about how the so-called securitization of mortgage loans—reselling small fractions of the loans to multiple investors, sometimes again and again—has stymied efforts to encourage lenders to…
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