Foreclosure Defense Attorneys Subjected to Bar Pressure

I guess the government will stop at nothing to make sure that the Housing Crisis is not hampered and will continue full steam ahead.

This article is very telling of how foreclosure defense attorneys are being treated by the Bar if they voice their opinions about the system: "Lawyers Investigated for Criticizing System"
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From article:

The Bar investigated Jacksonville attorney Chip Parker for telling CNN, “Foreclosure courts throughout the state of Florida have adopted a system of ramming foreclosure cases through the final judgments and sale — with very little regard to the rule of law.” He also said, “What I am seeing now is an attack upon the citizens of the state of Florida by retired judges.”

Parker learned he was under scrutiny in a letter from Bar counsel Shanell Schuyler last Dec. 3. The letter, obtained by the Review, includes a link to Parker’s CNN interview and advises him to explain his on-camera statements in writing by Dec. 20 in light of The Bar’s Rule of Professional Conduct 4-8.2 prohibiting lawyers from making false or reckless comments about court personnel.

“I was shocked,” Parker said. “I said, ‘This is a joke, right?’ I have a First Amendment right to free speech. I’ve said a lot worse and been more pointed in my speech in the past. CNN actually toned down my comments.”

Parker responded to The Bar by quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the late associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, saying his criticism was “consistent with the great traditions of American lawyers.”

The Bar also is investigating Tampa lawyer Matthew Weidner for “exercising free speech in the courtroom” in violation of a Pinellas County ordinance. Weidner, a prominent foreclosure defense lawyer, runs a blog critical of the state’s foreclosure process and is frequently quoted in national publications.

Well, this is very telling about how the system is run. They don't even want home owners to have any assistance whatsoever in this fight. It comes as no surprise that we're seeing this happening to Florida attorneys. After all, Florida is leading in foreclosures. All I can say to those who are at risk of losing their homes, learn how to defend yourself and be prepared to represent yourself in court.

So, I guess this means that foreclosure defense attorneys should not be doing their jobs and if they do, they'll face strict sanctions. It's O.K. to successfully defend a murderer, but don't you dare fight for the rights of the American home owner and don't even breathe a word of criticism about how the system is being run!

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I'm not surprised one bit. I've said it before and i'll say it again, we are being put down financially! First of all these
extremely affluent banks knew what they were doing and that was setting up people to be taken advantage of.
Secondly the banks, media, politicians and justice system are all in cahoots. They all work togeather, though most unknowingly, towards a total and utter socialist agenda by making us pennyless, propertyless and totally dependent upon the oligarchy. Thirdly they will get rid of anybody that stands in their way, as a matter of fact i believe they have allready been getting rid of us for years but soon their hit list will swell causing the deaths of thousands of so called desenters "truthers"! finally the people of this once great nation are so dumbed down, brainwashed, scared or with the program "politically correct" that the rest of us "the truthers" will never have the numbers to change anything to make a real difference. The best chance we had for change died in the 60s and the irony of it all is, that's the same generation who are destroying the world today!

Well he's breaking one of their rules of conduct which he agreed to when he became a lawyer. If he was so adamant about this issue maybe he shouldn't have agreed to it.

But he did so he has to follow the rule like everyone else.