by Mike on September 16, 2011
Glarum has the banks running scared. The biggest challenge banks face in today’s foreclosure crisis is that they still haven’t come to grips with the need to tell the truth when they testify. The recent case of Glarum v. LaSalle [PDF] has put even more pressure on the banks to tell the truth in foreclosure […]
by Mike on July 21, 2011
Foreclosure lawyers may have a duty to set aside foreclosures that were based on robo-signed affidavits, under an ethics opinion recently approved by the Florida Bar. The opinion (below), produced by bar staff in January of this year, responds to a hypothetical question from an unknown lawyer. The Surrogate Signer Hypothetical Under the hypothetical fact-pattern […]
by Mike on September 15, 2010
Florida Default Law Group this week sent out a wave of bizarre “Notices” in many of its foreclosure cases, to “withdraw” affidavits Florida Default Law Group filed as evidence in various foreclosure cases. Are Jeffery Stephan Affidavits False? The affidavits in question were signed by a man named Jeffrey Stephan, who claimed in various cases […]