Lawyers: More MBS Litigation To Come As Direction, Outcome of Cases Hinge on Future Court Rulings
June 22, 2012
Current and potential defendants in residential MBS litigation should expect more lawsuits stemming from the mortgage market collapse, particularly by or on behalf of state actors, but entities named in those suits are not without legal countermeasures, according to legal experts. During a webinar sponsored this week by the State Attorneys General Enforcement Network, attorneys Jason Halper and Martin Seidel of the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft predicted that the mortgage industry is only about halfway through the onslaught of MBS litigation to be brought by aggrieved investors. I think this...