Lender Liability - 4th Edition

Lender Liability is the leading one-volume work on the subject. This book by A. Barry Cappello, one of the greatest trial attorneys of our age, could not come at a more auspicious moment. Once the economy stabilizes and the current credit crisis subsides, lawyers throughout the nation will seek justice for many of the people who have been harmed. Some of these people will be shareholders who have lost everything; some will be borrowers who have lost their homes or businesses because they were enticed to borrow under terms that virtually guaranteed that they would default. In the fourth edition of Lender Liability, Barry Cappello provides an exhaustive, authoritative and illuminating analysis of the legal claims and theories that members of the bar will work with for decades to come. This area of the law has grown and matured significantly over the years and is now recognized as a distinct body of law that is the basis of thousands of lawsuits filed over the last decade. Written for both lenders' and borrowers' attorneys, Lender Liability discusses the basics and more advanced issues relating to lender liability. Topics include 1) an extended analysis of where and how lender liability problems arise, 2) common law and statutory theories of liability, 3) bankruptcy concerns and 4) lawsuits against failing or failed financial institutions. A sample complaint, request for production of documents, interrogatories and jury instructions are included as well as tables of state and federal cases and statutes, rules and regulations. This handy reference work is ideal for either the experienced practitioner or the neophyte involved in representing an institution or client whose interests involve bank liability.