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Foreclosures Flood Bankruptcy Courts
By Sylvia Hsieh; originally published on LawyersWeeklyUSA.com on August 19, 2008
The foreclosure crisis is fueling an increase in bankruptcy litigation over a variety of issues between lenders and homeowners. According to a recent ABA teleconference, residential foreclosures rose 55 percent just in the last year, with an estimated 1 million foreclosures by the end of the year and $3.5 trillion in home equity wiped out.
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Judges, attorneys work to stanch foreclosures
As actions surge, so do dismissals, mediation orders.
By Julie Kay; originally published in National Law Journal on July 14, 2008
Alarmed by the dramatic rise in housing foreclosures across the nation, judges have taken a variety of actions to slow the pace, ranging from outright dismissals for incomplete work to mandated mediation to threatening attorneys with sanctions.
While attorneys hold "boot camps" to train colleagues on how to handle foreclosures, judges have been closing down shortcuts, such as telephone hearings.
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Learning the Art of Bankruptcy Warfare
Intensive boot camp trains consumer lawyers to do battle with lenders
By Mary Pat Gallagher; originally published in New Jersey Law Journal on June 6, 2008
Bankruptcy boot camp is not your typical continuing legal education seminar. It is a four-day, high-intensity program at a mountain hideaway that is turning out a phalanx of consumer-side bankruptcy lawyers trained in spotting and fighting abuses by lenders.
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Max Gardner to do Live Interview on Barack Obama & NC Primary Tonight at 6:15 EST on Air America Radio
May 6, 2008
After filling in for Michelle Obama and delivering a riveting keynote address this past weekend at the Palmer Park Obama Get Out the Vote Rally in Shelby, North Carolina, O. Max Gardner III, Chief Litigator and Founding Partner of the National Consumer Bankruptcy Litigation Center, will be discussing today's North Carolina Democratic Primary during a live interview tonight at 6:15 EST on Air America Radio.
Gardner will follow this 8-minute segment with a recorded interview with Air America Radio's Joe Kennedy around 6:30.
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Piling On: Borrowers Buried by Fees
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON; originally published in The New York Times on April 20, 2008
SLOWLY but surely, a handful of public-minded bankruptcy court judges are drawing back the curtain on the mortgage servicing business, exposing, among other questionable practices, the sundry and onerous fees that big banks and financial companies levy on troubled borrowers.
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Max Gardner, Esq., on the Freddie/Fannie Mess
Posted on Depression2.tv on April 2, 2008
Max Gardner, a nationally renowned consumer bankruptcy attorney, has written an article on the mortgage mess--and its impact on taxpayers thanks to Freddie Max and Fannie Mae.
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The Foreclosure Machine
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON and JONATHAN D. GLATER; originally published in The New York Times on March 30, 2008
NOBODY wins when a home enters foreclosure - neither the borrower, who is evicted, nor the lender, who takes a loss when the home is resold. That's the conventional wisdom, anyway.
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Bank of America Inherits Countrywide's Baggage
By James R. Hagerty and Peg Brickley; originally published in The Wall Street Journal on February 29, 2008
Bank of America Corp. isn't scheduled to complete its planned acquisition of Countrywide Financial Corp. until the third quarter, but it is finding that the mortgage lender is a lightning rod.
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Bankruptcy Boot Camp: Basic training in bogus mortgage fees
By Heather Sullivan; originally published on WSPA.com on February 24, 2008
People across the country are losing their homes in the mortgage meltdown. A leading attorney based in Western North Carolina says it's often due to hidden and illegal fees on their mortgages. That's why he holds a Bankruptcy Boot Camp to teach other attorneys how to spot bogus fees.
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O. Max Gardner III Named 2008 NC Super Lawyer
January 25, 2008
Law & Politics, a national attorney-led research team, in conjunction with The Charlotte Magazine, has named O. Max Gardner III of Shelby as one of the 2008 North Carolina "Super Lawyers." This is the third time that Gardner has received the prestigious award.
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Lender Tells Judge It Recreated Letters
By Gretchen Morgenson; originally published in The New York Times on January 8, 2008
The Countrywide Financial Corporation fabricated documents related to the bankruptcy case of a Pennsylvania homeowner, court records show, raising new questions about the business practices of the giant mortgage lender at the center of the subprime mess.
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Playing the Odds
Lawyer Max Gardner Says Some Mortgage Servicers May Be Taking Homeowners for a Ride
By Vicki Mabrey & Ely Brown; originally published on ABCNews.com, December 14, 2007
It's been a six-year battle for Mike Dillon, who is trying to save his home from a foreclosure the courts say should never have happened.
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