Isn't It A Violation of the State Bar Rules?

August 08, 2003

By Alex Lyte
Copyright AHRC News Services

Melissia Colburn from San Diego settled her RICCO, fraud case against the homeowner association lawyers Peters & Freedman, Merit Property Management Company and the board members.

We'll all wait and see if they change their ways now...or continue to wag their curly tails at the homeowner association trough.

Ms. Colburn certainly is not the only person these people have stolen homes from, and perhaps ALL of the rest of the abused parties can now come out of the wood work and get their own deserved "pound of flesh".

It is not until the heck is beaten out of the attorneys -repeatedly and mercilessly that anything will ever change.

Certainly any such parties could be encouraged to contact Ms. Colburn directly, or her lawyers, to inquire as to filing their own lawsuit.

And while it is believed that these homeowner association lawyers steal and foreclose on homes on behalf of the homeowners association and then take title to these homes, isn't that a violation of Rule 4-300 of the California State Bar's Rules of Professional Conduct.

Perhaps if these abused parties can't afford to sue, or don't want to be dragged over the hot coals and crushed glass experience ,known as litigation, they could be inspired and encouraged to file written complaints with the California State Bar.

Confidential settlement agreements do not preclude paperwork and documentation from mysteriously showing up in another person's mail box to be used by others in continuing to attempt to correct the imbalance between the owners and the attorneys.


A Suggestion from AHRC

A chief counsel from an insurance company once reported that the Calfornia Bar Association is very "protective of its membership" and rarely takes any action on complaints it receives.

A retired attorney from Georgia remarked, "If people reported such activities as what California homeowner victims have been reporting, the lawyer would have been disbarred within two months."

AHRC set up web letters after seeing 13 years of letters by homeowners to the Bar Association, Attorney General, law enforcement, lawmekers and businesses disappearing into thin air.

We suggest that you use web letters to write. You will have an electronic copy complaints and letters in your personal account. A copy of each letter you write is emailed to you and the recipinets you specify . You can publish your letters on on AHRC at anytime and withhold you name from the web.

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