Countrywide Class Action Suits

At one point in my life I was a small logging contractor.   Being a wordsmith,  I wrote our original boilerplate contract.  When we started out,  I was quite proud of the fact that I managed to fit it all onto one page … including room for signatures.  I do this for you,  two,  three,  four,  and you do this for me,  two,  three,  four.   Seven years and a couple of lawsuits later when I finally got out of the business,   our contract had been crafted by an attorney and totaled 8 pages.  I used to joke with my partners that if you ever wanted to see what has gone wrong in a man’s business,  read his standard contract.  So it was with that 8 page contract in mind that I did a little research recently into the class action lawsuits that have been filed against Countrywide. Read the full story