Legal Aid Lawyers Save Day For Massachusetts Couple Facing Foreclosure; Counsel Helps Reach Agreement Allowing Homeowners To Buy Back Home

In Uxbridge, Massachusetts, The Metrowest Daily News reports on a local couple who were able to dodge the loss of their home to foreclosure with the help of a local non-profit law firm:

• The Damons said without their lawyers at the [...] Legal Assistance Corp. [of Central Massachusetts], they are unsure where they would be living, but doubt it would be at the North Main Street house they bought more than four years ago.

• "When all hope was lost, they came in like a white knight. I wasn't in a position to hire a lawyer, but they came in and took care of everything," said Michael Damon by phone from Cape Cod, where he is training for a second tour in Iraq, beginning in June. "That's why we're so adamant about helping legal aid."

• Now, nearly a year later, Lisa Damon told a crowd of a few hundred lawyers who filled the State House's Great Hall of Flags yesterday, her family is close to re-purchasing the house. With the help of their lawyers, they were already able to reach an agreement to keep living in their house through the process, she said. [...] The Damons' recent history was the centerpiece of a morning of lobbying by Massachusetts lawyers for legal aid organizations such as the one that helped them. [...] Unlike criminal cases, civil courts do not automatically appoint an attorney for people who cannot afford one.

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