A lawyer from Brockton, Mass., agreed this week to stop her practice as a real estate-closing attorney and title agent for seven years and repay $115,000 in restitution and fees.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced at a press conference today that he’s sent letters to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to find out why the same two law firms…
Representing himself in a property dispute over the George W. Bush presidential library at Southern Methodist University, a Texas lawyer has won a highly unusual court order requiring a former…
A third North Carolina real estate attorney has reportedly agreed to plead guilty in a federal mortgage fraud conspiracy case that allegedly involved selling homes at inflated values in upscale…
Two New York lawyers who allegedly helped close fraudulent mortgage transactions as part of a multi-pronged scheme run out of a Long Island mortgage brokerage are among 13 individuals charged…
A New York appeals court has stayed a malpractice suit against Greenberg Traurig and the chairman of its New York office to allow the facts to be developed first in…
Earlier this week, a New York City lawyer at the helm of his co-op board’s effort to evict Donald Trump’s company from several units was chortling over the pro-landlord lease…
A New York lawyer suing to evict Donald Trump’s company from several Manhattan co-op apartment units it is renting is chortling over the real estate mogul’s lease.
Testifying in a co-defendant’s criminal trial earlier this year after he himself accepted a plea bargain, a Florida attorney said he didn’t realize that he was doing anything wrong as…
Attorney Benjamin Houge had argued that his conduct merited only a reprimand. But the Minnesota Supreme Court suspended the Twin Cities practitioner for two years over his representation of a…
The South Carolina Supreme Court has temporarily barred some foreclosures in the state to give homeowners more time to seek loan modifications under a federal program.
Donald Trump’s famous name helped developers of a high-rise condominium project along the Pacific Ocean in Baja Mexico collect some $32 million in deposits from prospective buyers, including a number…
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