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Oct. 1, 2008

No Bono

Placing pro bono lender-fraud cases is a hard sell at California's largest law firms.

No one likes to take the loss from a bad bet. But it's tough to get your money back--even if you didn't understand the rules of the game, or if the tables were rigged. It's especially awkward to ask the owners of the casino to help you out.

Such is the predicament of subprime mortgage borrowers whose timing was bad.

In the past year thousands of those borrowers have b...

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