Simmons Legal Adds Katherine Britton as Of Counsel to the Firm

On April 9, 2015, the firm welcomed Katherine Britton as Of Counsel.  Ms. Britton has experience in both litigation and transactional matters.  She is licensed to practice law in Texas, Illinois and the District of Columbia. 

Camisha Simmons’ latest article titled “Bank Loses Mortgage in Bankruptcy Due to Mere ‘Technicality’" was published on Law.com

The article discusses a recent decision in the case Mbazira v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC (In re Mbazira).  In that case, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts determined that a bank, which was an assignee of a mortgage, lost its mortgage in bankruptcy due to a faulty acknowledgment appended to the mortgage document.  The decision sends the message to borrowers that they can use bankruptcy as a device to wipe out otherwise valid mortgages encumbering property by pointing to purported flaws in a lender’s recording of the mortgage document in real property records.  Read more: http://www.law.com/sites/camishasimmons/2015/04/05/bank-loses-mortgage-in-bankruptcy-due-to-mere-technicality/#ixzz3Wpyuy5ZB

Firm Founder Named 2015 "Texas Rising Star" by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters Rating Service

For the second year in a row, Camisha Simmons, founder and Managing Member of Simmons Legal PLLC, was named to the annual “Texas Rising Stars” list published by Super Lawyers magazine, a Thomson Reuters rating service.  No more than 2.5 percent of eligible lawyers in the state of Texas are named to the "Texas Rising Stars" list.