Apparently lawyers don't always know their clients as well as they think they do. Consider a couple of recent cases in Connecticut involving real estate transactions. In both matters, the lawyers have come under scrutiny following allegations that impostors forged signatures on mortgage documents. What it boils down to is that the lawyers did not check photo IDs or otherwise verify the identities of clients, and now people who claim their identities were stolen are lashing out at the lawyers.
September 18, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Apparently lawyers don’t always know their clients as well as they think they do.
Consider a couple of recent cases involving real estate transactions. In both matters, the lawyers have come under scrutiny following allegations that impostors forged signatures on mortgage documents.
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