Massachusetts foreclosure activity increased on a year-to-year basis in October, following more than a year of declines, the Warren Group said this morning. Many major lenders slowed the foreclosure process last year after some bank employees, now known as robo-signers, acknowledged they were signing thousands of foreclosure-related documents without properly reviewing the paperwork. But now

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BUFFALO, N.Y. | A New York law firm that specializes in foreclosures and was criticized for a Halloween party that mocked the homeless will close, a spokesman said Monday. Steven J. Baum P.C., one of the largest-volume mortgage foreclosure firms in New York, filed notice of mass layoffs with the

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A New York law firm that specializes in foreclosures and was criticized for a Halloween party that mocked the homeless will close, a spokesman said Monday.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A New York law firm that specializes in foreclosures and was criticized for a Halloween party that mocked the homeless will close, a spokesman said Monday. Steven J. Baum P.C., one of the largest-volume mortgage foreclosure firms in New York, filed notice of mass layoffs with the state Department of Labor and local officials, indicating at least a third of its employees would

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