Head of Fla. Foreclosure Mill Firm Agrees to Shut Down Law Practice

Via Carlos, Occupy Fights Foreclosures:

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/head_of_fla._foreclosure_mill_firm_agrees_to_shut_down_law_practice/

The head of one of Florida's well-known so-called foreclosure mill law firms has agreed to state bar discipline that will require him to close down his law office.

Marshall C. Watson has also agreed to a 91-day suspension, which will require approval by the state supreme court before he can be readmitted to practice, the Palm Beach Post's Real Time blog reports.

The consent judgment, which must be approved by the state supreme court before it takes effect, says Marshall did not properly supervise his law firm employees and failed "to develop, implement and maintain acceptable policies and operating practices for his firm," the newspaper reports.

Among other issues, the document says a Watson attorney was paid $1 for each of the 150,000 affidavits in which the lawyer said he had reviewed and attested to the reasonableness of fees charged. However, at least some of the affidavits weren't signed in the presence of a notary, as they were supposed to be, and "in numerous instances” the lawyer was given only the affidavit's final page to sign, the Post recounts.

(More at the link.)