Program that hoped for 500 attorneys has nearly 1,000
Borrowers struggling to save their homes from foreclosure desperately need legal help, but that’s often when they’re least able to afford it. In Maryland, though, nearly 1,000 attorneys are ready to assist for free. Lawyers began signing up to volunteer a year and a half ago, when Maryland’s chief judge – alarmed at skyrocketing foreclosures – urged the bar to join the new Foreclosure Prevention Pro Bono Project. Organizers, who had been hoping to recruit as many as 500, have trained 981 attorneys so far in the finer points of foreclosure law and hooked up them up with borrowers or groups helping borrowers.
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