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Fraudline with Rachel Dollar interview with Robert Russell reaches Inman News

Rachel Dollar, an attorney and creator of the Mortgage Fraud Blog, discusses the role of fraud in the financial crisis with Robert Russell, former counsel to the director of the U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision, in this FraudLine segment.

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Smith Dollar Attorney Heather Bussing Congratulates Local Law Students at Graduation

Heather Bussing, a professor of legal research and writing, called the students "an amazing group of people."

They are bright, funny, creative and talented, Bussing said. "And they never let me get away with anything."

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Attorney Heather Bussing of Smith Dollar writes employment policy article on Hrexaiminer.com

Large companies often require standardized procedures and systems to run efficiently. This thinking usually extends to personnel policies. After all, everyone needs to know what the rules are.

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Rachel M. Dollar wins the 10th Anniversary Women in Business Award (Professional Services Category)

Santa Rosa, CA - 5/20/2010

Rachel M. Dollar, President of Smith Dollar PC has been selected for the prestigious North Bay Business Journal's 2010 Women in Business Award in the professional services category.

Ms. Dollar is a California attorney who chairs the Mortgage Banking Group at Smith Dollar, ...

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Smith Dollar garners FDIC mortgage fraud contract

By the time the mortgage debacle really hit, Sonoma County law partner Rachel Dollar was already well-established in the lending fraud niche, having closed numerous complex, federal cases and publishing a book and widely followed blog on the topic.

Last month, the Smith Dollar law firm garnered a ...

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Smith Dollar Obtains Defense Verdict Following Six Week Jury Trial

On Thursday, April 30, 2009, after two days of deliberations, the jury in the trial of Bonfigli v. Strachan, Sonoma County Superior Court Case No. SCV-239528, returned a verdict in favor of the defense.

Defendant Michael D. Smith was represented by lead counsel Rachel Dollar of Smith Dollar PC.  ...

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Mortgage Fraud Blog Conference 2008

Mortgage Fraud is the fastest growing white collar crime in the United States. Unfortunately, it's not just hardened criminals that commit mortgage fraud. Despite increased lender attention to fraud prevention, statistics show an increase in lenders filing mortgage fraud suspicious activities ...

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Mortgage Fraud News

For up-to-date information on Mortgage Fraud, check out Ms. Dollar's nationally recognized web site Mortgage Fraud Blog.


 

Contact

Our attorneys are co-located in various areas across the United States.

Our main office is located in downtown Santa Rosa, the largest city in Sonoma County, in the heart of wine country, California.

SMITH DOLLAR PC
Attorneys at Law
404 Mendocino Avenue.; 2nd Floor
Santa Rosa, CA 95401

Phone: 707.522.1100
Fax: 707.522.1101

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Note: If you send us an email, please do not include any confidential information unless and until an Attorney/Client relationship is established. There is no such relationship until agreed to both by you and by Smith Dollar PC.

Directions from San Francisco:

  • Take 101 North to Downtown Santa Rosa Exit
  • Turn Right off of freeway off ramp
  • Second left at Mendocino
  • Second Right on Fifth Street
  • First Left on Riley
  • Park in the first parking lot on the left and walk around to our office entrance on Mendocino Avenue.

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