This is a succinct account of what passes for the practice of law in one of those machine shop like law firms that the banks find so enticing. They save the banks literally billions of dollars by avoiding doing any but the most basic requirements of the law.
I appreciate this gentleman’s willingness to share his frustration online. Thanks!
James Pilant
A lot of people have problems with their credit report. This is a succinct intelligent analysis of how to approach the problem.
James Pilant
via JV Law
Excellent article on net neutrality. Thoughtful and intelligent. We need more like it.
She asks the important questions. What values are at stake here? What are our choices? But she ties all this in with some history of the developing media of the last fifty years.
Good writing. Please go and have a look.
James Pilant
via Rebecca Reynolds
Apparently chicken farming will soon cease to exist if people photograph the conditions on the farms. That sound more to me like a reason to think something must be very, very wrong. If the big guns are out to stop the photographic truth of chicken farming, what are we not seeing that they are afraid of?
I don’t like this.
I want to express great appreciation to “A Philosopher’s Blog” for calling my attention to this!
James Pilant
I’ve written about MERS several times, most recently MERS And Ownership and A Thirty Dollar Fee?
I’m astonished that any lawyer would have encouraged a mortgage bank into this kind of deal, but it was one of those free money things. Any bank using the MERS system paid no property transfer fees like everyone else. So, it was worth millions of dollars to use that system even though it had never been authorized by law in any state.
This is big news. If property cannot be transferred using the MERS system, hundreds of thousands of mortgage foreclosures were done outside the law and hundreds of thousands of pending foreclosures will not be possible.
(This web site, News Unrapped, is brand new and I would like my readers to take a good look at it and consider subscribing. jp)
James Pilant
via News Unwrapped
This article is concerned with net neutrality. A good part of the article focuses on this issue. But the article takes on some other critical issues. One is Congress’ bizarre lengthening of the copyright privilege to seventy years plus the life of the author. It’s tragic in literature but in the tech world it ties up technology is a disastrous fashion. He also discusses new laws under consideration that would make suppliers of net access vulnerable to legal action over the content of their various customers. This would provoke massive censorship of the web not because there is illegality but to avoid the slightest possibility of illegality.
It’s a good article and his conclusions are very close to my own. I wish the author well.
James Pilant
via The Prelator
To promote professional ethics, many professions have requirments for admission that are not matters of academic degree or training. Such things as a good credit rating, no felonies, no violent misdemeanors, etc. This posting offers advice for the applicant to a profession with a ethics component.
I recommend it to your attention.
James Pilant
Pilant's Business Ethics Blog 
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