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Real Estate/Development

May 14, 2011

New Tactics Could Stall Foreclosures

Efforts by the federal government to reform the foreclosure process could give plaintiffs' lawyers new ammunition in court cases against mortgage servicers.


By Anna Scott


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Among the hundreds of thousands of U.S. homeowners threatened with foreclosure, desperate borrowers have resorted to everything from breaking back into their properties to suing lenders in federal class actions to remain in their homes, with mixed results. Now, a Huntington Beach lawyer seems to have stumbled on a new way to keep banks at bay while litigating foreclosures in court.


Attorney Lenore Alber...

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