In a 2004 will, Josephine Smoron left almost all her considerable assets, which included a dairy farm, to her longtime caretaker. A subsequent estate document in 2006 explained that she…
A judge has found a Florida law firm in “deliberate, willful and flagrant” contempt and fined it $49,000 for setting—and then missing—two foreclosure hearings.
A shuttered debt-collection law firm has been found liable for $23.7 million in a suit claiming it withheld money from a onetime client: an Illinois agency pursuing debtors who defaulted…
Upping the ante in a mortgage foreclosure mess that already reportedly has prompted the attorney general’s office in six or more states to initiate probes of various lenders, an Ohio…
One of three so-called “foreclosure mill” law firms under investigation by the Florida attorney general has returned fire, calling his probe an abuse of government power.
As JPMorgan Chase and Ally Financial’s GMAC Mortgage have acknowledged possible document irregularities concerning thousands of mortgage foreclosure cases and imposed temporary freezes on the litigation,…
Updated: After an article from Bloomberg over the weekend detailing document issues that could put thousands of mortgage foreclosure cases in doubt, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has slammed…
An antitrust class action over the fees charged to law graduates to take the BAR/BRI test preparation course for their bar exams was settled for $49 million in 2007.
A Maryland lawyer has filed a $200,000 sex bias suit against a nail salon, claiming the establishment charged him $4 more for a manicure and pedicure than his date.
In the latest example of how the legal system is apparently too overwhelmed to properly handle a deluge of mortgage foreclosures, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel is reporting that…
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