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Complainants allege a pattern of allegations relating to unfulfilled agreements for loan modification services. Customers complain the company accepted advance fees for services in violation of state law and refused to refund unearned fees when loan modifications did not come to fruition. All complaints are unanswered.
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All State Law Group provides loan modification services for fees paid in advance.
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License Number: 78533 Status: Disbarred
Agency: California State BarDescription:
On April 25, 2013, Bruce Steven Weiner was disbarred from the State Bar of California and is prohibited to practice law in California by order of the California Supreme Court. The State Bar found Weiner committed 51 counts of misconduct in 15 loan modification matters, ten of which were undertaken in states where he was not authorized to practice law.
According to the State Bar’s Discipline summary states that while operating as owner and attorney for Novation Law Center, the All State Law Group and the Realty Law Center, Weiner used fee agreements that attempted to divide the services his companies provided into prequalification and post-qualification services to bypass laws that prohibit attorneys from receiving compensation in loan modification matters until all services have been performed. Several of the fee agreements required the clients to pay in full following the completion of prequalification services which consisted of basic tasks such as interviewing the client or setting up a file. Clients paid thousands of dollars in advanced attorney fees and did not receive any modifications.
Weiner was found guilty of, among other charges, failing to perform legal services with competence, violating loan modification provisions, failing to return unearned fees, collecting illegal fees, failure to cooperate with a disciplinary investigation and the unauthorized practice of law in another state. He has been ordered to pay $41,052.50 in restitution, plus interest. Weiner has a record of past disciplines with the State Bar.
On October 11 2010 Governor Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 94 into law. The law prohibits (until January 1 2013) any person including attorneys and real estate brokers who negotiate arrange or offer to perform residential mortgage loan modifications or other forms of mortgage loan forbearance for a fee from demanding or receiving any up-front fee that requires any security as collateral for final compensation or taking a power of attorney from a borrower. The law also requires any person who negotiates arranges or offers to perform residential mortgage loan modifications or other forms of mortgage loan forbearance for a fee or other compensation paid by a borrower to provide a statement in 14-point font disclosing all loan modification fees. ~~In California it is illegal to collect any fees regardless of the form for negotiating or attempting to negotiate a loan modification for a residential mortgage. All modification services must be fully completed before any money can be collected. It is also illegal to divide fees or services into components for the purpose of avoiding this law.~~HUD approved housing counseling agencies are exempt from this law.~
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