Loan Modification

Good Income Tax News on Loan Repayment Assistance Programs
Some law schools have set up Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAPs) for graduates who do public-interest work.  Under these programs, some or all of the graduate’s student loans may be forgiven after a certain number of years of public-interest lawyering...

More on Loan Repayment and Forgiveness
Congratulations to Equal Justice Works on launching their blog this week. It already offers great resources for law school applicants and those considering a career in public interest law...

Congress Passes $60k Law School Loan Forgiveness Program for Prosecutors and Public Defenders
National Law Journal: Proposed Student Loan Repayment Program for Law Grads Goes to Bush for Signature, by Marcia Coyle: A proposed student loan repayment program for law school graduates who commit to service as state or local prosecutors, or state,...

Loan Forgiveness For Judges: What Would It Do To Daytime TV
There's plenty of discussion of loan forgiveness for public defenders, prosecutors and other varieties of government lawyers. But what about judges? Professor Neil Buchanan ponders whether loan forgiveness programs should extend to the judiciary...

Federal Student Loan Repayment Program Report to Congress FY07
OPM: Federal Student Loan Repayment Program Report Fiscal Year 2007 - Report to the Congress, May 2008: "In FY 2007,...

Law - "Loan repayment assistance programs progress"
From a February article in the ABA's "Your ABA":The House of Representatives passed its version of the Higher Education Act on Feb. 7, which includes two critical programs designed to ease the burden of student loan debt for prosecutors, public...

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GMAC Faces Class Action over Foreclosure Abuses
GMAC Faces Foreclosure Abuses Class Action

Bank of America Faces Class Action over Mortgage Foreclosure Practices
Bank of America Faces Class Action over Mortgage Foreclosure Practices

Class Action Filed Against Banks in Foreclosure Proceedings
Class Action Filed Against Banks in Foreclosure Proceedings

Countrywide Financial Corp.
allegedly charged borrowers improper foreclosure fees.