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 celebrate Mexican culture, eat great food, drink, sing, be upbeat. And, of
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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
Living Her Dream
Quite often I find myself in conversations with people who say things like, “When __ happens, then I will do ___.” For example, “When I retire, then I will play
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
Foreclosure Ten Years After the Collapse
Lehman Brothers collapsed ten years ago this week triggering the Recession, the effects of which are still lingering. I, certainly, see them almost every day. The spate of foreclosures that
Foreclosure and Empathy
To paraphrase one of the five worst* people who ever lived, ‘when something really bad happens to one person, it’s a tragedy; when it happens to a million, it’s a statistic.’ This is certainly true of
When Geoffrey Owens Played a Lawyer . . .
I posted something about Geoffrey Owens and ‘job shaming’ on Facebook last week because I saw in the ‘story’ of Geoffrey’s job at Trader Joe’s something I see regularly working