Philadelphia firm allowed nonlawyers to file inappropriate foreclosure documents
12/07/2010
By Credit.com Staff
The firm, Goldbeck, McCafferty and McKeever, allegedly filed hundreds of thousands of documents that would allow the lender it represented, Countrywide Home Loans, to foreclose on consumers' mortgages, according to a report from The Associated Press. The suit targets the firm itself, as well as 36 staff members, who researched, wrote and filed foreclosure actions that were never reviewed by actual lawyers between 2006 and 2008.
In addition, a Pittsburgh bankruptcy judge gave the firm until Friday afternoon to report to the state Supreme Court's Disciplinary Board over the allegations, the report said. The judge determined that a Goldbeck lawyer knowingly gave the court a bogus document to push through a property seizure inappropriately.
A number of pieces of legislation currently exist at both the state and national levels that would increase consumer protections against phony or improper foreclosures.
