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Perspective

Dec. 24, 2010

Cleaning Up the Mortgage Mess

The mortgage crisis of the past decade calls for a comprehensive overhaul of the investment and home loan industries. By Los Angeles attorney Jeremiah A. Ho.


Jeremiah A. Ho


In preparation for the MPRE (Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam) in law school, I was told in a review course that asking, "What is the morally right thing to do in this or that situation?" was the last effective approach to the exam. Rather, a stealthier approach was to ask, "What can an attorney legally get away with under the confines of any code of conduct?" The advice made sense to me then - as testing the boundari...

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