South Florida Law Blog

The tides turned from mortgage crisis to foreclosure financial crisis in October 2010. Florida Attorney Roy Oppenheim made the call three days before the bank fraud story broke in the Wall Street Journal. He reflected on that day with leading Asset Protection Attorney Douglass Lodmell in a recent interview on the talk show “Mind of Money.” On September 28th at […]

Homeowners and lawyers including Roy Oppenheim say overwhelmed lenders and judges are rubber-stamping foreclosures, overlooking major problems and compromising the defendants’ rights to due process. In a recent interview with Sun Sentinel’s Real Estate Writer Paul Owers, Roy Oppenheim and Geoff Sherman shared a recent case of improper foreclosure. “This case is a symbol of the crisis,” said Oppenheim, whose […]

Considering we can expect 4.3 million new foreclosures in the next 24 months the questions are: How can you fashion your own bailout? Why should you pay your mortgage if the neighbor isn’t? How can we resolve the foreclosure crisis? Does it make sense to socialize the losses (not the gains) and allow private companies (like the banks) keep profits? […]

In case you missed it, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke went on the record with 60 Minutes last night to discuss the current state of the economy. On Wednesday at 6 pm in his own 60 minutes, Foreclosure Defense Attorney and legal blogger Roy Oppenheim will discuss his thoughts on this interview as well as the latest foreclosure defense strategies […]

In Monday’s The New York Times editorial The Fed and Foreclosures, The Times finally took the Fed to task. They wrote: “There are two sides to every delinquent loan – a lender who made a bad lending decision and a borrower who cannot repay. Yet banks have never acted as if they bear any responsibility for the mortgage mess.” The […]

It just keeps getting better and better…in a recent letter sent to the chief judges of all 20 Florida judicial circuit courts, Chief Justice Charles Canady of the Florida Supreme Court was compelled by horror stories from the foreclosure courts to remind judges they should be following the law when deciding foreclosure cases. The Rolling Stone article by Matt Taibbi: […]

It’s a fraud-closure world after all! As Florida leads the nation in mortgage delinquency; Foreclosure Defense Attorney Roy Oppenheim announces Oppenheim Law’s 26th consecutive monthly foreclosure defense workshop, now scheduled for Wednesday December 8, 2010 from 6:00 to 7:00pm. Oppenheim, who has coached thousands of homeowners through his seminars, will focus on how homeowners can fashion their own bailout through […]

It’s a fraud-closure world after all! As Florida leads the nation in mortgage delinquency; Foreclosure Defense Attorney Roy Oppenheim announces Oppenheim Law’s 26th consecutive monthly foreclosure defense workshop scheduled for Wednesday December 8, 2010 from 6:00 to 7:00pm. Oppenheim, who has coached thousands of homeowners through his seminars, will focus on how homeowners can fashion their own bailout through strategic […]