Foreclosure frenzy in Maryland? 

Courts say they are ready for new mediation rules, but some attorneys rushed filings into the system

Posted: 7:15 pm Wed, June 30, 2010
By Nicholas Sohr
Daily Record Business Writer

Maryland’s foreclosure mediation law takes effect Thursday with teams of court staffers, reams of new forms and hearing rooms in courthouses across the state dedicated to connecting struggling homeowners and the banks that lent them money. But those who work closest with foreclosures are split on what impact the new law and the massive effort to ...