South Florida Law Blog

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 […]

It is hard to feel comfortable about housing these days, even though that is what many real estate indexes indicate that is what we should be doing. That is because the shadow inventory, homes owned by banks but kept off the market, still lingers. But Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan, says he and the rest of the Obama administration do not […]

  The Republican and Democratic conventions are almost upon us, and the housing crisis has finally been inserted into the presidential election. Maybe the President and his Republican rival see homeowners as nothing more than another campaign issue to be exploited, or maybe they are finally starting to understand how central the need to tackle the foreclosure problem is to […]

Recently, Jacquelyn Trask, one of my associate attorneys, won a motion to dismiss with the court reserving determination of our right to receive attorneys’ fees on a case that highlights a growing problem, the filing of “robo-motions.” The unusual facts of the case demonstrate how dangerous robo-motions are: potentially much more dangerous than the heights scaled by the robo-signing scandal. […]

When my staff and I started working on compiling our list of Dirty Dozen banks, I realized there are many questions that the list does not answer. The fact is all of us need to dig deeper, and educate ourselves to obtain a further understanding of the current culture of Wall Street if we are to do anything about fixing […]

El dominio eminente se refiere al caso en el cual el gobierno tiene la autoridad de tomar posesión de una propiedad privada sin el consentimiento del dueño con la función de destinarla al beneficio del público. Usualmente cuando el gobierno toma posesión de dada propiedad através del dominio eminente, esta se destina a expander una carretera o para la construcción […]

A version of this blog was originally published on Yahoo! Homes and is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. As a real estate attorney, I’ve had plenty of prospective clients come to my office after being served with a foreclosure notice. It is safe to say they are usually not in a good mood; they are […]

Would you believe it if I told you that 24% of executives in the United States and the UK believe that financial services professionals need to engage in unethical or illegal conduct to be successful? Well, a recent survey of over 500 executives found exactly that, with 26% of them admitting first hand knowledge of wrongdoing in their workplace. I […]