Real Estate & Property Law

Bait-and-switch by law firms proposing to handle your work
Are there techniques to lessen the risk of taking the bait of stellar lawyers at the final presentation, but working thereafter with a switch to earthly types? This question occurred to me when GC New England Mag...

Bait and Switch on Treaties
Eugene Volokh writing at the Volokh Conspiracy comments on a post by Ed Whelan at the National Review Bench Memos site regarding the use of bait and switch tactics to obtain ratification of treaties that are then used to advance radical agendas.

Sexual Harassment Bait and Switch
In sexual harassment cases, many courts play a game of bait and switch with employers. When they want to hold the employer liable, they claim that harassment requires no showing of wrongful or discriminatory intent at all, making the employer...

Reverse Mortgage Information for Consumers
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has launched a new website to help consumers make wise choices about Reverse Mortgages. The site explains that a "reverse mortgage loan is a special type of mortgage loan for seniors (generally age 62 and older)...

Reverse Mortgage Limits Double
The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 more than doubled the home value (now up to $417,000) to be used nationwide for establishing the size of loans available from the federal reverse mortgage program...

FBI Investigates Suprime Mortgage Fraud
The FBI is investigating 14 unidentified companies for fraud in the subprime mortgage markets, including accounting fraud and insider trading. Since the 1990s, th eFBI has investigated mortgage fraud in the primary real estate market...

Whats a Home Loan Modification?
How to Qualify for a Home Loan Modification

Copyright Lawsuits: Critical Issues Before Filing Copyright
Federa Rule 11(b) Considerations

Home Mortgages
What to look for

Reverse Mortgages
Consumer facts

Stock Splits and Reverse Stock Splits
How splits can affect stock value

How to Skirt H-1B Regulations
Senator reacts to YouTube video

National City Mortgage
$4.6 million payout resolves mortgage suit.

SunTrust Mortgage Faces Class Action over Alleged HAMP Breach of Contract
SunTrust Mortgage Faces Class Action over Mortgage Restructuring

Hedge Funds
alleging companies involved in mortgage fraud.

Federal National Mortgage Association
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Countrywide
Faces Class Action over Strong-Arm Tactics used to Intimidate Appraisers

Massive Cadillac Recall
Defective Airbag Switch at Fault