Following news from Bloomberg that a major lender has stopped sending new cases to a South Florida law firm known for its foreclosure work, a lawyer for its…
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 Florida lawyer who serves as a magistrate in Duval County drug court is still hearing cases there after taking a plea to a reduced charge in his own drunken-driving…
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,…
The Jewish American Bar Association has only three members, but it managed to get a lot of publicity with an ad on a bus bench near a Florida courthouse. The…
A federal prosecutor in Miami was arrested Sunday afternoon after taking a dip in a pool in his boxer shorts and making an alleged getaway that involved some chase-scene-worthy fence…
In a dramatic departure from South Florida plaintiffs firm Lytal Reiter Clark Fountain & Williams, six partners, headed by 25-year firm veteran Mark Clark, exited with only…
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