I am responding to the recent announcement of a new rule—a fiat—issued by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, regarding a required affirmation from attorneys representing lender-plaintiffs in foreclosure actions.
I appear occasionally on behalf of banks in various foreclosure parts in the New York City metropolitan area. I’m also a homeowner as well as a citizen who thinks that the financial system that got us to this point of a foreclosure crisis —actually crises, financial and judicial—is dysfunctional to put it mildly. So I have a certain objectivity in all this.
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