In March 2011, Marshall Watson paid two million dollars to settle a Florida Attorney General investigation into questionable foreclosure practices and suspicious document execution policies. However, that settlement didn’t clean up Watson’s practices enough to fend off a new set of accusations by the Florida Bar. The Bar has just released a 12-page guilty plea for consent judgment with Marshall Watson . This is the Florida Bar’s third regulatory action against foreclosure mill owners.
The foreclosure mill, Law Firm of Marshall Watson, has been shut down after the owner, Marshall Watson, pled guilty to unlawful and unethical practices at his firm. It appears that the firm hopes to have a smooth transition to a new law office, Choice Legal, headed by Marshall Watson’s brother, John Watson. In 2010, John Watson, apparently playing both sides of the crisis, in more than one instance represented a property owner against the very same financial institution that he also rep resented, in at least some capacity, in other foreclosure cases.