South Florida Law Blog

Like the U.S. banking industry, cyber thieves were able to get away with financial malfeasance and are finding more sophisticated ways to get away with their crimes.

If you watched President Obama give the State of the Union , you might be scratching your head over his failure to speak, except for a brief mention, about what will one day fill at least a chapter in history books as one of the worst financial crises since the Great Depression. Instead, the president appeared to be taking his […]

I have to give Suze Orman credit. One thing that’s taken a huge hit in the housing crisis is people’s credit scores. I’ve seen it with plenty of good responsible homeowners. The reality is that most people who overextended themselves during this financial crisis did so because they had good credit scores. In fact when I used to ask people […]

Watch this insightful video on how we got to where we are just from one year ago…. Wall Street, One Year Later The Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin, Gretchen Morgenson and Joe Nocera recount the events of the weekend that Lehman Brothers failed and discuss the lessons learned from the financial crisis…

My associate, Geoff Sherman, received from a friend a great online video describing how we got into this foreclosure/ financial crisis in a short cartoon. The producer, Jonathan Jarvis, prepared this video as part of his graduate thesis in the Media Design Program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. The key here is, he took a […]