300+ Lawyers Volunteer To Assist In Mandatory Foreclosure Mediations In Nevada Expected To Begin In August

In Carson City, Nevada, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports:

• About 340 lawyers have volunteered to serve as mediators to work with lenders to keep Nevadans from losing their homes to foreclosure, Nevada Chief Justice Jim Hardesty said [this week]. Hardesty told the Assembly Ways and Means Committee that he expects mediation hearings will begin in August and that as many as 3,000 Nevadans a month will seek mandatory mediation to work out loan modifications that allow them to remain in their homes.

For more, see Lawyers volunteer as mediators to help in foreclosure crisis.