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Law Practice

Oct. 16, 2012

State Bar accuses lawyer of taking advance fees for loan modification work

The State Bar has charged a Southern California lawyer with 20 counts of charging advance fees for mortgage modification work in violation of a 2009 consumer protection law known as SB 94.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The State Bar has charged a Southern California lawyer with 20 counts of charging advance fees for mortgage modification work in violation of a 2009 consumer protection law known as SB 94.


In a formal discipline complaint filed last week, bar prosecutors also accused Stephen Lyster Siringoringo of Garden Grove of sharing fees with nonlawyers and of committing acts of moral turpitude. In re: ...

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