Tag Archives: disbarred
- California Lawyer Disbarred Over Loan Modification Business
Another sad story of advanced fee loan modifications tearing down yet another group of people. From the California Bar Journal. @GetOutOfDebtGuy PAUL JEFFREY LUCAS [#163076], 50, of Aliso Viejo was disbarred July 22, 2011, and he was ordered to make restitution and comply with rule 9.20 of the California Rules of Court. Lucas participated in [...]
- Loan Modification Lawyers Disbarred. Christian Lawyers of America, Anything But.
A tipster sent in a notice about an even that happened earlier this year but the story struck me so much I wanted to share it with you anyway. It’s a good example of what happens to lawyers who lose control of their professional ethics and allow the sale to become more important than their [...]
- New Jersey Attorney Admonished for Debt Settlement Activity
Here are some more attorneys, this time in New Jersey, that were disbarred, suspended, or admonished in work that was either specifically related to debt settlement work or activities that could be related to debt settlement. – Source Barry J. Beran – Admonished on November 25, 2009 (Unreported) for failing to advise client, for whom [...]
- Florida Attorney Disbarred for Debt Relief Work
According to the Financial News & Daily Record: Rudolph C. Campbell, P.O. Box 546, Lutz, disbarred effective 30 days from a June 3 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1998) Further, Campbell shall pay restitution of $1,500 to one client. Campbell used his law firm as a loan modification and foreclosure assistance business. He charged up-front [...]
- Debt Settlement Frederick Law Group, Attorney Disbarred, Jailed, and Now Broke
Former Maryland attorney Richard Brennan, doing business as the Frederick Law Group and The Law Office of Richard A Brennan, has just been hit with a $2.7 million dollar judgment in an attempt to collect money due clients of his debt settlement law firm. Brennan has been disbarred, jailed and is now without a job, [...]
- Listen to the Lies This Marketing Company Tells Consumers to Sell Attorney Based Debt Settlement Services
I’ve previously written about the attorney model debt settlement firm approach that some debt settlement companies are rushing towards in an effort to circumvent any fee ban that may be put in place. The logic is that attorneys are exempt from most laws so if an attorney is doing debt settlement then it must be [...]
- California Attorneys Disbarred For Loan Modification Activities and Rolls Out Tough New Regulations Regarding Mortgage Foreclosure Consultants
Threatening possible criminal and civil prosecution, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today ordered 386 mortgage foreclosure consultants to post $100,000 bonds and register with his office. He also ordered more than two dozen companies to justify suspicious loan modification claims made in “slick advertising,” online and through the mail. The companies that were [...]