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...based National Consumer Law Center reported this week that many large banks and other mortgage servicers have decided it's cheaper to foreclose than to offer more affordable loan terms. Making matters even worse, as many as 86% of foreclosure victims in hard-hit areas didn't have legal counsel last year, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, which released a report earlier this month...
Another impediment is foreclosure law itself, a bureaucratically convoluted field worthy of a Dickens novel. "It's a labor-intensive area of practice," says Paschal. "It involves a ton of paperwork." Yet another is the relatively low pay attorneys usually reap from defending foreclosure clients. Melanca Clark, counsel at the Brennan Center and co-author of this month's study, urges Congress and state legislatures to create incentives, like more funding for foreclosure legal representation, that "level the playing field" against lenders and their comparatively well-paid lawyers. Restrictions on government funding for legal services should be relaxed, she says...
...Crimson and FlyByBlog are opposed to illegal drug activity and counsel their readers to avoid dangerous wild animals...
...determine, along with the judges and defense lawyers, whether any evidence was obtained by coercion or inadmissible hearsay. Previously denied access to prosecution witnesses would have to be provided. Defendants whose options had been limited to military attorneys in the past would have the right to select new counsel among more seasoned civilian attorneys...
...these pieces take time," says Christopher Anders, the ACLU's senior legislative counsel. "It's hard to see how the government can short-circuit the significant start-up time that's going to be needed. "After all this work," he said of the commissions, "we'll see if they end up getting used...