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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Apr. 7, 2011

Lawyers Feud Over 'Mass Joinder' Suits

A Los Angeles judge today will hear a motion by one group of attorneys trying to kick another lawyer off as co-lead counsel in a huge "mass joinder" lawsuit by homeowners against mortgage lenders.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A Los Angeles judge today will hear a motion by one group of attorneys trying to kick another lawyer off as co-lead counsel in a huge "mass joinder" lawsuit by homeowners against mortgage lenders.


Coming about two weeks after the state Department of Real Estate warned consumers against paying upfront fees to join such litigation, the motion accuses attorney Mitchell J. Stein of possib...

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