Whether or not you are in foreclosure, you have benefited from the groundbreaking, earth-shattering work done to protect consumers and support our entire judicial system by April Charney from Jacksonville Legal Aid.
This one pioneering lawyer, this Warrior For The People has traveled from one end of this state to the other and all over the country preaching the gospel of respect for the rule of law and defense of those who are most in need.
Along the way April has changed not just the lives of clients, but she has almost single handedly changed the entire bar, by creating quite literally an Army of dedicated and principled attorneys who are committed to fighting for consumers. So important and so respected is her work that she was recently recognized by the Florida Bar for all her work.
And so it is with terribly dismay that I read this hero might be under attack…
Jacksonville Area Legal Aid attorney April Charney has proved a big pain in the ass for giant corporations in the middle of the foreclosure crisis like Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo Company and Jacksonville-based Lender Processer Services. She gummed up what had been routine and quick foreclosures with questions that led to an exposure of the fraud and forgery that drive many foreclosures. Charney was among the first attorneys to ask lenders to produce the proof they really owned the loans and had the right to foreclose. Attorney generals opened investigations into foreclosure practices in 50 states. Jacksonville’s Lender Processing Services was in the middle of those investigations because it is one of the country’s largest loan servicers and because of the volume of legal documents that company representatives appear to have faked.
WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO LET THE WARRIORS WHO ARE FIGHTING CONTINUE TO SUFFER ATTACKS
I am beyond discouraged sometimes in fighting this fight. But if it had not been for a seminar of Ms. Charney’s that I attended some two years ago thanks to the Sarasota Bar, I would not have gotten in to this line of work.
What she demonstrated so clearly and proved so effortlessly at that time was that a huge legal injustice was occurring and that lawyers had an obligation to get involved. She was inspiring and she still is. She is knowledge beyond what a human being should be able to know. And she does not get discouraged easily like me. She stated right at that seminar that even if she has been denied numerous times she keeps bringing the motions because she knows what the law should do. I hope someone sends blessings her way.
To think that she must suffer the slings and arrows of lesser folks is saddening.
I definitely will take time out of my schedule to contact the members of the board of JALA. I urge everyone else to do so and pull out your client list so that your clients will do so.
If this titan of an attorney Charney is allowed to be defeated then we all should just abandon ship.
It still fascinates me today, that I ALONE, as a PRO SE have had to fight this fight against Bank of America, with ORIGINAL DEED IN HAND, and VOIDED NOTE in hand, against no less than EIGHT bar card lawyers in the Tampa Middle District….and yet the bar cards will elevate the bar cards when in fact it was US – We the People, out here in the REAL WORLD, who have gathered the evidence, reported it to state and federal authorities, provided flow charts of follow the money…in my personal opinion, the only good attorney is a “Lincoln Lawyer”…