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The Miami Herald reports today that the 11th Circuit Court, which includes Miami-Dade County, has made a change in the organization that has been managing the mortgage foreclosure mediation program since its initiation. It has replaced the Collins Center with the Oasis Alliance Corporation, apparently based in Tampa. Herald quotes a director of the Collins Center that it operates in "six of Florida's judicial districts and receives $275 for each case it handles, [and] has managed about 8,000 foreclosure mediations in Miami-Dade over the past two years."

The Miami Herald reports today that the 11th Circuit Court, which includes Miami-Dade County, has made a change in the organization that has been managing the mortgage foreclosure mediation program since its initiation. It has replaced the Collins Center with the Oasis Alliance Corporation, apparently based in Tampa. Herald quotes a director of the Collins Center that it operates in "six of Florida's judicial districts and receives $275 for each case it handles, [and] has managed about 8,000 foreclosure mediations in Miami-Dade over the past two years."

Lawyers who represent consumers in foreclosures, collection abuse or civil lawsuit defense matters often refer to attorneys on the other side as “mills.”  In my experience, that’s not too far off the mark; when law firms file huge numbers of lawsuits at a clip without any meaningful involvement by the attorneys allegedly in charge, that’s [...]

The Bankruptcy Means Test figures are changing again on March 14, 2011 and I am once again reminded of how absurd the means test is.  When the US Trustee posts new means test figures, I alway take a careful look at the numbers and compare them to  determine how it will affect my clients.   Increases in [...]