Debt, Judgments, and Liens
Last week I wrote about debt and AMC’s Lodge 49. A show in which debt is so pervasive it’s another character. This is the flip side of that conversation –
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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 earlier this year adopted the battle cry “I call BS” in the face
99 Homes
A week or so back, I was at a conference table with another lawyer and a client. The subject was, of course, debt and a pending foreclosure. I’d known the
My First Solo
It was twelve years ago today, October 2, 2006, that I went solo. I actually didn’t have much of a plan. I had obtained a position reviewing documents for large
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
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
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
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 ran last Sunday. I wasn’t posting to help psych myself up for a rough, hot,
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
About The Big Short (Part One)
I took a bunch of clients to see The Big Short early last month. Great group of people, great time, great movie. Smart, funny, insightful, wicked, insidious, it did as