Mel Black Blog 
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Mel Black is the former Executive Director of the North Carolina Appraisal Board, a former education officer at the North Carolina Real Estate Commission, and a practicing attorney.  Mel is licensed to practice law in North Carolina and the District of Columbia.  He is a member of the North Carolina State Bar and on the council of the Administrative Law section of the North Carolina Bar Association. Mel Black’s administrative law background offers distinct benefits to real estate brokers, real estate appraisers and other licensed professionals who face disciplinary hearings and other procedural challenges to their licenses.  Please contact Mel at his law office at 919-865-2577 if you need to speak about a legal matter.

Mel has written several 7-hour continuing education classes and is an AQB approved USPAP instructor.  Mel and his wife Erin own NCREEI and offer initial licensing or qualifying education for appraisal and many high quality Continuing Education classes. NCREEI also offers online continuing education for appraisal and real estate continuing education

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Mortgage Fraud Blog is the premier website for news and information on mortgage fraud and real estate fraud throughout the United States Rachel Dollar, the editor of Mortgage Fraud Blog, is an attorney and Certified Mortgage Banker who handles litigation for lending institutions and secondary market investors. She is an author and a nationally recognized speaker on the topic of mortgage fraud. Ms. Dollar is a shareholder with the law firm of Smith Dollar, PC, is licensed to practice law in California and maintains offices in Santa Rosa, California. Mortgage Fraud Blog is co-sponsored by Interthinx the leading provider of fraud serviced and solutions for the mortgage industry. © Copyright 2004-2010 Rachel M. Dollar

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Claudia Says: Claudia Gaglione received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California Law Center in 1982 and in 1994, Claudia and her partner, Bob Dolan, formed the law firm of Gaglione & Dolan, which specializes in the defense of professional malpractice claims. Since 1987, Claudia has personally supervised over 4,000 claims and lawsuits filed against real estate appraisers across the country. By virtue of this experience, she is uniquely qualified to speak about what kinds of things appraisers get sued for and what defenses are most successful. More importantly, Claudia can discuss the types of errors that are avoidable and how appraisers can make themselves the best possible defendants in the event they are ever sued. © 2010 LIA Administrators & Insurance Services

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