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The rule of law is the rule of law is the rule of law. I am repeating this because the message is just not getting through. This country was built on a system which held the rule of law in the highest regard and protected our judicial system. That is what I learned in 8th grade civics class, anyway. Whatever […]

An edited version of this post originally appeared on Yahoo! Homes and is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. I am often asked how Wall Street has managed to be so reckless, with little to no regard for its customers and its investors, yet avoid any real consequence for its actions. The easy answer, if there […]

Roy Oppenheim’s commentary was originally published on Yahoo! Homes and is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. Well the long national nightmare is over. No, not the fraudclosure crisis. Sad to say that legal mess is still being cleaned up years after the bubble burst. I’m talking, of course, of the NFL referees lockout. Believe it […]

Remember when “Corporations are people, my friend!” was the strangest thing to come out of Mitt Romney’s mouth? It speaks volumes about the problems with our political process that it took a speech we were never intended to hear to allow us to hear a politician speaking honestly and off-the-cuff. Now I am not in the business of endorsing any […]

  Since I started the South Florida Law Blog following the 2008 economic meltdown, I have made no secret of the fact that I am extremely critical of what can best be characterized as “America’s new crony capitalism.” Crony capitalism occurs where certain industries have gained undue influence in the political process and thus have curried favor unjustly from the […]

With the presidential race entering its final stretch and with the employment figures remaining effectively flat, one would think that the housing crisis would have already been front and center by now. As I have said numerous times every economic recovery since the Depression has been led by the housing sector. But only now do we have a fuller picture […]

Once, just once, I wish politicians would leave the prose and symbolism to the fiction writers. Not that I was expecting any different, but as I watched Mitt Romney accept the Republican nomination, I heard bold talk and big promises. It is a narrative, plain and simple, an entertaining one perhaps, but one that I fear will do little to […]

If there is only one thing that I hope to see as an attorney, it is the law applied fairly to all sides of the courtroom. And there has been no greater sense of frustration for me than to see the banks, time and time again, not be held to the same standards as you or me. It has become […]