A Denver lawyer has found an innovative way to keep busy during his “retirement” and, when his project is complete, vacation in a lovely Paris apartment with his wife at…
It may soon be harder to find experts to testify as witnesses in civil litigation if a trend toward allowing their own clients to sue them for negligence continues.
Plaintiffs’ counsel had hoped for $50 million or so. But a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., jury effectively awarded less than $5 million to 58,000 Broward County homeowners who had sought additional…
As housing price declines steepen and mortgage default rates rise, Congress is considering legislation to give struggling homeowners an alternative to foreclosure in what many are calling the worst real…
Instead of providing the expected financial cushion in tough economic times, home equity lines are disappearing just when some owners—including attorneys—were relying on being able to use them.
Call them foreclosure factories, if you will. But two Minnesota law firms handle nearly half of the mortgage foreclosure work in the state—earning, one partner says, as little as $50…
Federal prosecutors in at least five major cities throughout the country are reving up for a more expansive investigation of possible widespread fraudulent practices by mortgage lenders and investment banks.
The mortgage meltdown continues, as foreclosure statistics released yesterday by RealtyTrac make clear. Filings nationwide have more than doubled, compared to the first quarter of 2007, and are up 23…
The mortgage meltdown includes even some homeowners in the nation’s most affluent communities. But the rich, as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, are different than the rest of us. They have…
Two landlords are facing felony charges after allegedly waging a war of terror in an effort to persuade a San Francisco tenant to move out and harassing two other tenants…
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