Home foreclosure isn’t a legal abstraction for Yolanda Paschal, a recent graduate of the University of Miami School of Law. Her parents are facing foreclosure on the Miami house she grew up in.

With the rash of foreclosures across the country in recent years, many lawyers have specialized in the lucrative business of handling cases for banks and loan servicers. And now that flaws are being ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The lawyers are starting to circle. The latest twist in the national foreclosure crisis has created an uncertain atmosphere ripe for exploitation. At issue is whether banks improperly ...

It’s foreclosure Friday at Financial Reform Watch as we take a closer look at one of the groups responsible for the latest scandal to engulf the housing market. Today’s target: The lawyers who ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At the risk of losing their homes if they didn’t, scores of Colorado homeowners struggling to avoid foreclosure in the past year were each forced to pay ...

In 2011, three attorneys set up a firm called The Mortgage Law Group that took advantage of a federal program aimed at helping people threatened with foreclosure to stay in their homes. Business ...

With judges looking ever more critically at home foreclosures, they are reaching beyond the bankers to heap some of their most scorching criticism on the lawyers. In numerous opinions, judges have ...

For some Florida residents, the price of getting out of foreclosure will include taking on a second mortgage payable this time to their lawyers. The new mortgage, which takes effect only if the ...

The chief judge of New York's courts on Wednesday carried out a new rule requiring lawyers handling foreclosures to verify that all paperwork is accurate. The move comes amid an uproar over ...