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Stamping Out Equity Stripping In Texas

Posted on December 11, 2008
If we can bash Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott when he grandstands publicly to no practical purpose other than advancing his political career, we can give him his "props" when he grandstands to advance his political career and incidentally screws....

Stamping Out Equity Stripping In Texas

Posted on December 11, 2008
If we can bash Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott when he grandstands publicly to no practical purpose other than advancing his political career, we can give him his props when he grandstands to advance his political career and incidentally screws...

Litigators, Line Up Your Experts!

Posted on December 10, 2008
Well-known legal social media guru Robert Ambrogi authored an article in the latest Bullseye Newsletter entitled "Legal Tsunami Is Coming, Batten Down The Experts."As James J. Angel, associate professor of finance at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University...

Litigators, Line Up Your Experts!

Posted on December 10, 2008
Well-known legal social media guru Robert Ambrogi authored an article in the latest Bullseye Newsletter entitled Legal Tsunami Is Coming, Batten Down The Experts.As James J. Angel, associate professor of finance at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University...

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TARP: All It's Cracked Up To Be

Posted on December 09, 2008
You knew this was coming. So did I, but I wouldn't face it and neither would you. Well, people with more courage than you or me have been looking the concept of "logical consequences" straight in the eye and, unflinchingly,...

TARP: All It's Cracked Up To Be

Posted on December 09, 2008
You knew this was coming. So did I, but I wouldn't face it and neither would you. Well, people with more courage than you or me have been looking the concept of logical consequences straight in the eye and, unflinchingly,...

I'm Surprsied That You're Surprised

Posted on December 08, 2008
When I read Comptroller Dugan's remarks this morning about the rate of default "recidivism" by residential mortgage borrowers whose loans have been modified, my initial reaction was the same as Paul Jackson's of Housing Wire. Dugan had this to say...

I'm Surprised That You're Surprised

Posted on December 08, 2008
When I read Comptroller Dugan's remarks this morning about the rate of default recidivism by residential mortgage borrowers whose loans have been modified, my initial reaction was the same as Paul Jackson's of Housing Wire. Dugan had this to say...

Misdirected Criticism Of CRA

Posted on December 07, 2008
In yet another sign of the Apocalypse, Sheila Bair and I agree on something. Last Thursday, speaking before a consumer advocacy group (her favorite turf, other than any Congressional subcommittee chaired by Barney Frank), Ms. Bair "vigorously" refuted the allegation...

Easy Come, Easy Go

Posted on December 04, 2008
Vanity Fair's take on an application form for some of that yummy bailout cash from he Treasury Department (h/t Bruce Carton).

Bair, Busy Bussing Barack's Behind, Berates Bush's Boyz

Posted on December 03, 2008
Sheila Bair must be feeling pretty cocky lately. Her public dissing of the lame duck administration and her fawning over the incoming administration is becoming so transparent that she might soon be invited to a quail hunt with Dick Cheney....

A Rush To Capital Or Off A Cliff?

Posted on December 02, 2008
What a difference a stock market crash makes. According to a recent poll of community banks, in October, 66% did not intend to participate in the US Treasury's Capital Purchase Program. Like San Antonio, Texas-based Frost Bank, most community banks...

Angels Fly

Posted on December 01, 2008
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.---G.K. ChestertonThis was an exhausting and long day, spent at a local heart hospital where the love of my life is undergoing surgery. I arrived home tonight, and thought, in passing, I'd see if...

Employees: The Chink In The Armor Of Information Security

Posted on November 30, 2008
Last May, we profiled the risk of rogue sociopathic employees who help outsiders steal sensitive data from banks, mortgage lenders, and other businesses. In that story, former employees disclosed passwords that were not changed after the employees left the business...

Pull The Turkey From The Lawyer's Butt And Win A New Job

Posted on November 26, 2008
I didn't intend to post again until next week, but this story of dysfunctional telemarketing to a lawyer was just too good to pass up.This younger generation really has issues with rejection, eh?Technically, using a telephone to anonymously annoy or....

Don't Do DAP, Says HUD's "Top Cop"

Posted on November 26, 2008
As Democrats in Congress gear up to push through the return of seller-funded downpayment assistance (DAP) for FHA loans in 2009, at least one "top cop" with plenty of skin in the game thinks that's a really bad idea. HUD's...

And You Thought YOU Were Having A Bad Day

Posted on November 25, 2008
From Bruce Carton, editor of Securities Docket, via a "tweet" on Twitter (don't ask, Google it), comes word of one lawyer's nightmare of a day in court. If you're going to sue AIG in Justice Ramos's court, you'd better either...

What A Surprise!

Posted on November 24, 2008
An article in the December 1 issue of The New Yorker entitled "Anatomy of a Meltdown" contained some interesting--some might say shocking--admissions by Ben Bernanke about how befuddled he was about the onset of the current financial crisis. Paul Jackson...

Congress Cries "Cram It!"

Posted on November 23, 2008
Bankruptcy cram-down legislation for residential mortgages is back on the front burner. When we last looked at this proposal, its chances of enactment looked favorable, but it was stripped out of the legislation to which it had been appended prior...

Rocky Mountain Whack-A-Mole

Posted on November 19, 2008
While privately-held banks (other than Subchapter S and mutuals) scramble to sort out the CPP and decide, in short order, "to be or not to be" in bed with Uncle Sam, other participants in the mortgage market continue to prey...

Go Sheila, Go Sheila! Uh-Huh, Uh-Huh!

Posted on November 18, 2008
While FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair may give many of us in the private sector a bad case of shingles, within the FDIC she's hotter than a photo of a passionate lip-lock between Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan. At least, that's...

Pushback on Freddie Mac Buybacks?

Posted on November 17, 2008
Funny thing about elephant stampedes. A herd of pachyderms might be stomping villages flat, driving the terrified villagers before it, and generally scaring the stuffing out of every mortal man and woman that crosses its path. Suddenly, the rampaging tuskers...

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Posted on November 16, 2008
While most eyes are focused on the FUBAR named "TARP," those of us who inhabit the rabbit warren known as "Bank Lawyer???s Blog" have been head-snapping at less-noticed events that we think might provide "signs-of-the-times" markers for the tea-leaf reader...

Clowns To The Left Of Me, Jokers To The Right

Posted on November 13, 2008
It's been a tough couple of days, and the end of the week promises to be no less frantic. What is it with clients and deadlines? Don't they understand that blogging comes first? Where are their priorities?Not that I wouldn't...

For Whom The Toll Bells

Posted on November 11, 2008
Erin Toll, a BLB fave, is back in the trade news again, and, as might be expected, it's not because she's shilling for businesses. Ms. Toll, the Director of Real Estate for the State of Colorado, was last seen running...

I've Looked At Work From Both Sides Now

Posted on November 10, 2008
The headline of this article from Saturday's The Washington Post is enough to make most of the American public "hurl": Wall Street Decamps to K Street for Work on Bailout. The details about "an army of accountants, financial advisers, asset...

Ex Post Facto Right to Redo

Posted on November 09, 2008
Ballard Spahr issued a client alert last Thursday that pointed out to those who might take part in the Treasury Department's Capital Purchase Program under TARP that there is a very disturbing provision in the Securities Purchase Agreement that Treasury...

The Good News

Posted on November 06, 2008
There was great news today for two of Bank Lawyer's Blog's favorite public servants. First, Eliot (Mess) Spitzer beat the rap on a Mann Act violation, not because he didn't violate the Mann Act, but because the "Justice" Department says...

This Is The Change We Have Been Waiting For

Posted on November 05, 2008
Everyone: can we all chant in unison, "Yes, We Can!"? We can? Cool!I'm not talking about Barack Obama, I'm talking about a federally-mandated 90-day foreclosure moratorium. The kind being pushed by Chris Dodd. The kind already enacted in California and...

Is Hope For Homeowners Hopeless?

Posted on November 04, 2008
Peter Miller of FHA Mortgage Guide thinks that "it's a disgrace" that the FHA's Hope for Homeowners program has thus far proved to be a flop. Well, not merely one of those routine flops, the kind that hits the ground...

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