Recall the issue of exploding gas tanks that Ford Motor Co. had with the Mustang and Pinto. Ford assessed their risks and decided that 1) there wouldn’t be THAT many incidences of such, 2) that few incidences of such would result in lawsuits, 3) most of those suits could be settled out of court, 4) proving liability in court would be difficult for an injured party to do… I think you get the idea. The costs of redesign were higher than the legal expenses of either settling or litigating. Further the costs of settling and litigating were viewed as the cost of doing business.

My opinion is the mill firms consider any sanctions to be merely the cost of doing business. And why not? The larger ones are making money hand over fist with the volume of business they’re doing. I haven’t researched this, but, it appears there are only 2 examples of FDLG being sanctioned in the past 19 months. In that time they may have filed 10’s of thousands of foreclosure cases. Being sanctioned twice doesn’t provide much of a deterrent.

Sanctions will only have a deterrent effect when they are applied more frequently and more uniformly.

The sanctions in the more recent case didn’t threaten the individual attorney. Based on that it is clear that individual attorneys still have no risk, or no skin in the game. Until individual attorneys are held accountable in monetary terms, and in terms that threaten their licenses to practice, they will have little incentive to comport themselves in accordance with rules and ethical canons.

Then there’s this: http://myfloridalegal.com/__85256309005085AB.nsf/0/A4F1B85DCC5D5ACD852577130045B63F?Open&Highlight=0,florida,default

And this http://tinyurl.com/FDLGPres

And this: http://tinyurl.com/ya6y6bg

And this: http://www.woodwardlaw.com/

And this: https://4closurefraud.org/2010/05/25/whoa-florida-judge-wipes-out-homeowners-207000-mortgage/

And this: https://4closurefraud.org/2010/04/02/guess-the-money-is-too-good-to-pass-up-introducing-the-cullaros-new-replacement-expert-witness-for-reasonable-attorneys-fees-for-fdlg-florida-default-law-group/

I know there’s so much more but I’m out of time!