New head of State Bar of California assails mortgage modification scammers

The proliferation of complaints against lawyers who said they could help rescue clients threatened with foreclosure has hurt tens of thousands of people and confronted the bar with a mounting and costly disciplinary burden, said Howard Miller, a partner with the Los Angeles plaintiffs’ firm of Girardi & Keese.

“There are at least hundreds, and perhaps more, perhaps thousands, of lawyers in California who deliberately reached out to obtain money from people at the most vulnerable point in their lives and, as near as anyone can tell, did nothing to help them,” Miller said, vowing to make a priority of punishing such misdeeds during his yearlong tenure.

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  1. antoinette says:

    so many people are getting scamed for loan modifications etc.
    why can i find a list that’s giving everyone who to go to and who to stay away from.

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