Prior Articles

Update on Florida Bar Committee meetings

As a now past member of the Florida Bar’s Professional Ethics Committee and now current member of the Bar’s Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) Committee, I want to pass on some information from both committee meetings held on June 24th in Orlando.

You may have been waiting to hear what the [...]

July 5th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Business Liabilities, Closings, Escrow/Trust Accounts, Ethics, Foreclosures/Short Sales, RESPA/Title Insurance Rules/Compliance, Title Agents, Title Insurance, Unauthorized Practice of Law, Uncategorized | 2 comments

The Unauthorized Practice of Law

I am going to report to you about the results of The Florida Bar’s Unlicensed Practice of Law Standing Committee’s recent meeting to allow public comments about short sales and claims by attorneys that nonattorneys are crossing the UPL line when working on short sales, I promise. But in the meantime, I find myself drifting to what [...]

February 24th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Ethics, Foreclosures/Short Sales, Mortgages, Title Agents, Unauthorized Practice of Law, Uncategorized | 6 comments