Attorney Encourages Foreclosure Resistance
A North Carolina attorney has become a folk hero in the legal movement pushing for an end to unfair foreclosures.

O. Max Gardner III, 65, has trained 559 lawyers in the last four years to use lenders’ disorganization to give their clients facing foreclosure room to maneuver.

"My clients are desperate. They have insurmountable financial problems, and I'm able to give them a remedy and an answer and an assurance it's going to be all right. That's pretty rewarding stuff," said Gardner.

Lawyers opposing Gardner view him as a troublemaker who gets in the way of the legal bankruptcy process, said Joseph Greer III, a corporate bankruptcy lawyer in North Carolina who often works with creditors.

Source: Reuters News, Joe Rauch (10/27/2010)