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Do I Need a Lawyer for My Foreclosure Case?

There’s No Simple Answer A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about how a foreclosure lawsuit gets started. I’m told by Google analytic experts that once a foreclosure action is filed in court the most popular search in Connecticut is: “Do I need a lawyer for my...
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What a year it was!

What an interesting year 2025 was!  I hope you made it through 2025 unscathed and are heading into 2026 strong. This was quite a transformative year in the world of mortgages and foreclosures. Several trends caused changes in how foreclosures are handled and what I...
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A Conversation with a Twelve-Year-Old

An Excerpt from Got Debt?  Recently, I was sort of interviewed about what I do. My neighbors asked me to pick up their 12-year-old son from school, he was getting home late from a field trip to Boston, they were tied up at work and in meetings, and I was available to...
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What a year it was!

Jan 22, 2026

What a year it was!
What an interesting year 2025 was!  I hope you made it through 2025 unscathed and are heading into 2...

Do I Need a Lawyer for My Foreclosure Case?

Sep 17, 2024

Do I Need a Lawyer for My Foreclosure Case?
There’s No Simple Answer A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about how a foreclosure lawsuit gets start...

Hiring a Connecticut Foreclosure Attorney

Sep 16, 2024

Hiring a Connecticut Foreclosure Attorney
What Kind of Lawyer Should Represent You? There’s an old joke that goes like this: Question: “What d...

Connecticut Foreclosures in the Age of AI

Jul 30, 2024

Connecticut Foreclosures in the Age of AI
Can you DIY your foreclosure with AI?   None of us can avoid AI. It’s not only a part of every ...

When Does A Foreclosure Action Start?

Jul 12, 2024

When Does A Foreclosure Action Start?
The Problem Is, It’s Not as Dramatic as You May Think Everyone I speak to has suffered through month...

Rebuilding Your Reputation After Foreclosure

Nov 18, 2023

Rebuilding Your Reputation After Foreclosure
Rebuilding Your Financial Standing: Overcoming Shame and Restoring Trust In the face of foreclosure ...

“I am not a crook,” am I?

Nov 7, 2023

“I am not a crook,” am I?
Long story short, I heard that there’s someone out there calling me a crook!  She thinks I’m a crook...

Discovering Empowerment Through Running: How Each Step Fuels My Advocacy for Homeowners in Foreclosure

Nov 1, 2023

Discovering Empowerment Through Running: How Each Step Fuels My Advocacy for Homeowners in Foreclosure
One cloudy afternoon, I hit the pavement for a run expecting an ordinary workout. Instead, this phys...

Maximizing Your Income: A Strategic Approach Beyond Debt Consolidation

Oct 18, 2023

Maximizing Your Income: A Strategic Approach Beyond Debt Consolidation
Are you grappling with debt and contemplating whether debt consolidation is the right choice for you...

Financing private school education and the looming threat of foreclosure

Sep 1, 2023

Financing private school education and the looming threat of foreclosure
Attention to all homeowners grappling with the difficult decision between financing private school e...
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Do I Need a Lawyer for My Foreclosure Case?

Sep 17, 2024

Do I Need a Lawyer for My Foreclosure Case?
There’s No Simple Answer A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about how a foreclosure lawsuit gets start...

Hiring a Connecticut Foreclosure Attorney

Sep 16, 2024

Hiring a Connecticut Foreclosure Attorney
What Kind of Lawyer Should Represent You? There’s an old joke that goes like this: Question: “What d...

When Does A Foreclosure Action Start?

Jul 12, 2024

When Does A Foreclosure Action Start?
The Problem Is, It’s Not as Dramatic as You May Think Everyone I speak to has suffered through month...

Gerald Watkins Mayfield …

Nov 17, 2016

Gerald Watkins Mayfield …
I have a new favorite TV lawyer, or had, I  don’t think he’s going to be around very lon...

Roger Ebert’s ‘Lawyer in a Movie Rule’ and My Practice

Nov 3, 2016

Roger Ebert’s ‘Lawyer in a Movie Rule’ and My Practice
The late great Roger Ebert came up with a set of movies rules for movie viewing gleaned from his dec...

Foreclosure and Jimmy McGill

Aug 10, 2016

Foreclosure and Jimmy McGill
Probably the most authentic picture of what it’s like to run a small law firm is Better Call Saul. N...

This is Where …

Jul 27, 2016

This is Where …
. . .I came in. There’s a phrase that’s fast dying out. Oh, a few people still say it, u...

YO! Adrian! Here’s Why I’ve Been Posting About a Triathlon

Jul 19, 2016

YO! Adrian! Here’s Why I’ve Been Posting About a Triathlon
For about the past week, I’ve been posting on Facebook about the Litchfield Hills Triathlon I ...

2015: The Year in Themes

Dec 31, 2015

2015: The Year in Themes
It’s been quite a year, in court, out of court, blogging, talking, consulting. Since I started...

Google, Ben Affleck, Dogs, and Foreclosure Defense

Nov 6, 2015

Google, Ben Affleck, Dogs, and Foreclosure Defense
The Internet? Is that thing still around? ~Homer Simpson I have a love-hate relationship with the In...
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Crumbling Foundations and Social Media

Aug 20, 2019

Crumbling Foundations and Social Media
We’ve been posting a lot about the crumbling foundation problem in Eastern Connecticut on Face...

Connecticut Foreclosures in the Age of AI

Jul 30, 2024

Connecticut Foreclosures in the Age of AI
Can you DIY your foreclosure with AI?   None of us can avoid AI. It’s not only a part of every ...

Discovering Empowerment Through Running: How Each Step Fuels My Advocacy for Homeowners in Foreclosure

Nov 1, 2023

Discovering Empowerment Through Running: How Each Step Fuels My Advocacy for Homeowners in Foreclosure
One cloudy afternoon, I hit the pavement for a run expecting an ordinary workout. Instead, this phys...

Maximizing Your Income: A Strategic Approach Beyond Debt Consolidation

Oct 18, 2023

Maximizing Your Income: A Strategic Approach Beyond Debt Consolidation
Are you grappling with debt and contemplating whether debt consolidation is the right choice for you...

Unveiling the Hidden Struggles: Shaping a Financially Empowered Community

Jul 1, 2023

Unveiling the Hidden Struggles: Shaping a Financially Empowered Community
Are you in this situation? Picture yourself gearing up to host this year’s 4th of July BBQ, ea...

Got Debt and The Institute, Perfect Together

Apr 25, 2023

Got Debt and The Institute, Perfect Together
Wondering today if Stephen King is the Sarah Poriss of debt? Or is it the other way around? Regardle...

Green Stamps, Reward Points, and You

Feb 7, 2023

Green Stamps, Reward Points, and You
NPR’s Morning Edition ran a story about credit card points and reward programs. It centered on credi...

The Miracle of COVID

Oct 19, 2020

The Miracle of COVID
I just left a message for a client, who hasn’t been in good touch with me all summer, urging her to ...

A Modest Proposal (and unintended consequences . . . perhaps)

Jun 17, 2019

A Modest Proposal (and unintended consequences . . . perhaps)
June 17, 2019 I posted on Facebook post last month about a proposed bill from Bernie Sanders and Ale...

Cinco de Mayo and Great Foreclosure Defenses in History

May 5, 2019

Cinco de Mayo and Great Foreclosure Defenses in History
May 5, 2019 Happy Cinco de Mayo! A great day (despite the heavy rain here in Connecticut) to celebra...

Some Peace of Mind This December

Dec 2, 2018

Some Peace of Mind This December
The holidays are here, the end of the year is looming large, for many it’s time to tidy things...
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What a year it was!

Jan 22, 2026

What a year it was!
What an interesting year 2025 was!  I hope you made it through 2025 unscathed and are heading into 2...

Do I Need a Lawyer for My Foreclosure Case?

Sep 17, 2024

Do I Need a Lawyer for My Foreclosure Case?
There’s No Simple Answer A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about how a foreclosure lawsuit gets start...

Hiring a Connecticut Foreclosure Attorney

Sep 16, 2024

Hiring a Connecticut Foreclosure Attorney
What Kind of Lawyer Should Represent You? There’s an old joke that goes like this: Question: “What d...

Connecticut Foreclosures in the Age of AI

Jul 30, 2024

Connecticut Foreclosures in the Age of AI
Can you DIY your foreclosure with AI?   None of us can avoid AI. It’s not only a part of every ...

When Does A Foreclosure Action Start?

Jul 12, 2024

When Does A Foreclosure Action Start?
The Problem Is, It’s Not as Dramatic as You May Think Everyone I speak to has suffered through month...

Rebuilding Your Reputation After Foreclosure

Nov 18, 2023

Rebuilding Your Reputation After Foreclosure
Rebuilding Your Financial Standing: Overcoming Shame and Restoring Trust In the face of foreclosure ...

“I am not a crook,” am I?

Nov 7, 2023

“I am not a crook,” am I?
Long story short, I heard that there’s someone out there calling me a crook!  She thinks I’m a crook...

Discovering Empowerment Through Running: How Each Step Fuels My Advocacy for Homeowners in Foreclosure

Nov 1, 2023

Discovering Empowerment Through Running: How Each Step Fuels My Advocacy for Homeowners in Foreclosure
One cloudy afternoon, I hit the pavement for a run expecting an ordinary workout. Instead, this phys...

Maximizing Your Income: A Strategic Approach Beyond Debt Consolidation

Oct 18, 2023

Maximizing Your Income: A Strategic Approach Beyond Debt Consolidation
Are you grappling with debt and contemplating whether debt consolidation is the right choice for you...

Financing private school education and the looming threat of foreclosure

Sep 1, 2023

Financing private school education and the looming threat of foreclosure
Attention to all homeowners grappling with the difficult decision between financing private school e...
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What a year it was!

Jan 22, 2026

What a year it was!
What an interesting year 2025 was!  I hope you made it through 2025 unscathed and are heading into 2...

A Modest Proposal (and unintended consequences . . . perhaps)

Jun 17, 2019

A Modest Proposal (and unintended consequences . . . perhaps)
June 17, 2019 I posted on Facebook post last month about a proposed bill from Bernie Sanders and Ale...

About Got Debt 2.0 (the preface)

May 28, 2019

About Got Debt 2.0 (the preface)
May 28, 2019 I published the first edition of Got Debt, Dispatches From the Front Lines of America’s...

99 Homes

Oct 4, 2018

99 Homes
A week or so back, I was at a conference table with another lawyer and a client. The subject was, of...

My First Solo

Oct 2, 2018

My First Solo
It was twelve years ago today, October 2, 2006, that I went solo.  I actually didn’t have much of a ...

Black Mirror, China, and Moving On

Apr 2, 2018

Black Mirror, China, and Moving On
This piece is the result of a perfect confluence of a couple of scattered news articles that flitted...

Dickens, Debt, and Christmas

Dec 20, 2017

Dickens, Debt, and Christmas
So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of deb...

A Conversation with a Twelve-Year-Old

Oct 13, 2017

A Conversation with a Twelve-Year-Old
An Excerpt from Got Debt?  Recently, I was sort of interviewed about what I do. My neighbors asked m...

Psychology & Debt

Sep 30, 2017

Psychology & Debt
From Got Debt, Dispatches from the Front Lines of America’s Financial Crisis The more I work w...

The Healthcare Vote, the Media, and My Practice.

May 7, 2017

The Healthcare Vote, the Media, and My Practice.
After the House vote on the Health Care bill Thursday – you may have heard about it, it’...
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The Miracle of COVID

Oct 19, 2020

The Miracle of COVID
I just left a message for a client, who hasn’t been in good touch with me all summer, urging her to ...

Social Distancing and Why You Need To Pay Your Mortgage

Mar 20, 2020

Social Distancing and Why You Need To Pay Your Mortgage
This social distancing thing is really interesting. We are seeing how being able to come into close ...

MLK and Debt

Jan 17, 2020

MLK and Debt
My work has one focus- working with people in debt. With Martin Luther King Jr. day comingup, I was ...

A Modest Proposal (and unintended consequences . . . perhaps)

Jun 17, 2019

A Modest Proposal (and unintended consequences . . . perhaps)
June 17, 2019 I posted on Facebook post last month about a proposed bill from Bernie Sanders and Ale...

About Got Debt 2.0 (the preface)

May 28, 2019

About Got Debt 2.0 (the preface)
May 28, 2019 I published the first edition of Got Debt, Dispatches From the Front Lines of America’s...

Foreseeing Effects

Jun 25, 2018

Foreseeing Effects
First semester of law school everyone takes Torts. It’s an interesting course, rarely boring as you’...

The Politics of Debt

May 29, 2018

The Politics of Debt
Last month we posted an article on Facebook about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The arti...

Black Mirror, China, and Moving On

Apr 2, 2018

Black Mirror, China, and Moving On
This piece is the result of a perfect confluence of a couple of scattered news articles that flitted...

A Tale of Two RVs

Nov 29, 2017

A Tale of Two RVs
There was an great article in Wired Magazine about a week ago about Amazon’s CamperForce. If y...

About Crumbling Foundations

Nov 7, 2017

About Crumbling Foundations
There was a meeting this past Saturday I wanted to let you know about… The Connecticut Coaliti...

Picturing Foreclosure

Sep 29, 2018

Picturing Foreclosure
Who do you picture when you hear the word Foreclosure?  Do you picture people sitting around piles o...

A Day in Court

Sep 21, 2018

A Day in Court
I was in court a few days ago, a woman was there, representing herself, trying to tell the court tha...

Lawyers, Math, and Why You Can’t Buy A Third-Pound Burger at A&W.

Feb 21, 2017

Lawyers, Math, and Why You Can’t Buy A Third-Pound Burger at A&W.
This week’s blog was co-authored with Jenny Bradley, a Family Law Mediation Attorney in the Re...

Roger Ebert’s ‘Lawyer in a Movie Rule’ and My Practice

Nov 3, 2016

Roger Ebert’s ‘Lawyer in a Movie Rule’ and My Practice
The late great Roger Ebert came up with a set of movies rules for movie viewing gleaned from his dec...

Flounder’s Car and No Worry Foreclosure Solutions

Apr 24, 2016

Flounder’s Car and No Worry Foreclosure Solutions
An attorney and a real estate guy were just arrested in Connecticut for allegedly running a scam on ...

The Myth of the Free House

Mar 22, 2016

The Myth of the Free House
About a month or so ago, news came down about a California Appeals Court decision where the court re...

2015: The Year in Themes

Dec 31, 2015

2015: The Year in Themes
It’s been quite a year, in court, out of court, blogging, talking, consulting. Since I started...

A Day in Court

Sep 22, 2015

A Day in Court
A different take in foreclosure court: usually the judge takes cases where attorneys have entered ap...

Lawyers, Doctors, Car Mechanics, and Authority

Sep 10, 2015

Lawyers, Doctors, Car Mechanics, and Authority
Lawyers are heavily regulated.  I know it may not seem that way to the public, but we have to follow...

Advice from Strangers . . .

Aug 19, 2015

Advice from Strangers . . .
I recently met with a woman  who told me she hasn’t been sleeping. She’s been having nig...
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Revisiting A Tale of Two RVs

Mar 9, 2021

Revisiting A Tale of Two RVs
My husband and I watched Netflix’s Nomadland last weekend, the film about retirement-age Americans o...

My First Solo

Oct 2, 2018

My First Solo
It was twelve years ago today, October 2, 2006, that I went solo.  I actually didn’t have much of a ...

Roger Ebert’s ‘Lawyer in a Movie Rule’ and My Practice

Nov 3, 2016

Roger Ebert’s ‘Lawyer in a Movie Rule’ and My Practice
The late great Roger Ebert came up with a set of movies rules for movie viewing gleaned from his dec...

Foreclosure and Jimmy McGill

Aug 10, 2016

Foreclosure and Jimmy McGill
Probably the most authentic picture of what it’s like to run a small law firm is Better Call Saul. N...

Adventures in Solo Practice (Episode #257)

Mar 7, 2016

Adventures in Solo Practice (Episode #257)
I was on the phone with a mortgage broker last week – yes, like 99% of the general population,...

2015: The Year in Themes

Dec 31, 2015

2015: The Year in Themes
It’s been quite a year, in court, out of court, blogging, talking, consulting. Since I started...

Debt, Dickens, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

Dec 23, 2015

Debt, Dickens, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of deb...

Why I’ll Be Cringing During the Republican Debates (… it’s not what you think)

Oct 28, 2015

Why I’ll Be Cringing During the Republican Debates (… it’s not what you think)
There are three Republican Presidential debates over the next six weeks and they are sure to have a ...

The DaVinci Code, Debt, and A Book Announcement

Oct 20, 2015

The DaVinci Code, Debt, and A Book Announcement
I’m working on a book – Got Debt? Essays from the Front Lines of America’s Debt Epidemic. I’ll be wr...

Don’t be a Number

Aug 11, 2015

Don’t be a Number
In the areas of law I practice in (mostly foreclosure defense and credit card collection defense), t...

It may work in fiction . . .

Jul 23, 2015

It may work in fiction . . .
A staple of the ‘legal thriller’ – both movies and television, from Anatomy of a M...
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Connecticut Foreclosures in the Age of AI

Jul 30, 2024

Connecticut Foreclosures in the Age of AI
Can you DIY your foreclosure with AI?   None of us can avoid AI. It’s not only a part of every ...

When Does A Foreclosure Action Start?

Jul 12, 2024

When Does A Foreclosure Action Start?
The Problem Is, It’s Not as Dramatic as You May Think Everyone I speak to has suffered through month...

7 Important Points of a Foreclosure or Credit Card Action

Mar 27, 2023

7 Important Points of a Foreclosure or Credit Card Action
7 important points to know going into a foreclosure/credit card action: You have options – but...

Running to Save Houses

Mar 2, 2020

Running to Save Houses
It was five years ago this week—February 25, 2015- that I embarked on a training plan to run a half ...

Living her dream …

Apr 13, 2019

Living her dream …
Living her dream Quite often I find myself in conversations with people who say things like, “When _...

The Debts of Lodge 49

Nov 14, 2018

The Debts of Lodge 49
The first season of Lodge 49 ended a few weeks ago (along with the latest season of Better Call Saul...

Surviving Debt: Expert Advice

Nov 6, 2018

Surviving Debt: Expert Advice
Some people just like self-help books. Some people (like someone I am related to) always have one op...

I Call BS . . . (on everyone, myself very much included)

Oct 22, 2018

I Call BS . . . (on everyone, myself very much included)
“I call BS” The students of the high school in Florida who suffered that mass school shooting earlie...

Living Her Dream

Oct 8, 2018

Living Her Dream
Quite often I find myself in conversations with people who say things like, “When __ happens, then I...

Foreseeing Effects

Jun 25, 2018

Foreseeing Effects
First semester of law school everyone takes Torts. It’s an interesting course, rarely boring as you’...
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