Picturing Foreclosure
Who do you picture when you hear the word Foreclosure? Do you picture people sitting around piles of cash they have saved up because they haven’t paid their mortgage? Do
Real Court Stories
A Day in Court
I was in court a few days ago, a woman was there, representing herself, trying to tell the court that she was about to sell her house and the foreclosure
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 Research Triangle in North Carolina. In a perfect world, any half-way serious review of
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 decades of amazing reviews. Things like ‘the guy in a war movie who
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 people facing foreclosure. They’re accused of something that looks remarkably like a
The Myth of the Free House
About a month or so ago, news came down about a California Appeals Court decision where the court recognized that a mortgage company/bank suing for foreclosure could not produce the
2015: The Year in Themes
It’s been quite a year, in court, out of court, blogging, talking, consulting. Since I started putting my thoughts down early in the year a few themes have emerged, themes
A Day in Court
A different take in foreclosure court: usually the judge takes cases where attorneys have entered appearances – ostensibly to try and curb expenses, (who wants to pay a lawyer to sit
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 a lot of rules. Many of those rules are designed
Advice from Strangers . . .
I recently met with a woman who told me she hasn’t been sleeping. She’s been having nightmares where people from her mortgage company come to her house and move her stuff