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Mass. Law Links is sponsored by Ben L. Fernandez, a real estate attorney practicing law in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Mr. Fernandez has been practicing law for twenty years, and has experience representing financial institutions, government housing finance agencies, non-profit corporations, home buyers and sellers, and other clients in commercial and residential mortgage loan closings, affordable housing finance transactions, and residential real estate developments on the South Shore and Cape Cod.  He is the Vice President of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Plymouth, and a teacher in Junior Achievement's Financial Literacy program.  He speaks at Homebuyer Education Workshops sponsored by South Shore Housing and Housing Assistance Corporation on Cape Cod.  And he has been certified as a Minority Business Enterprise by the State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance.

Before opening an office in Plymouth, Mr. Fernandez practiced law in the city of Boston for fifteen years.  He worked as in-house counsel for a state-sponsored affordable housing finance agency, managed the business department of a prominent minority-owned firm, and was an associate at two large Boston law firms.  Mr. Fernandez has a Master of Laws degree in Banking and Financial Law Studies from Boston University School of Law, as well as a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University.  He has written articles on a number of legal topics, including “The Duties of Mutual Fund Independent Trustees with Respect to the Investment Advisory Fee,” Boston Bar Journal, March / April 1997, at 12; “Lien’s Attachment to Fire Insurance Proceeds,” Mass Lawyers Weekly, May 3, 1993, at 11; “RTC May Disaffirm Part of ‘Divisible’ Contract,” Mass Lawyers Weekly, March 23, 1992, at 11; “Federal Government may Revise Terminology for “Hispanics,” Noticias, Newsletter of the Hispanic National Bar Association, Winter 1996, at 11; “Affirmative Action After Adarand,” Noticias, Newsletter of the Hispanic National Bar Association, Fall 1995, at 11; and “Affirmative Action in Mass. After ‘Adarand,’” Mass Lawyers Weekly, August 21, 1995, at 11.  He persuaded the Federal Court to create new law under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989. See e.g., Monument Square Assoc. v. RTC, 792 F.Supp. 874 (D.Mass. 1991); Desmond v. FDIC, 798 F.Supp. 829 (D.Mass. 1992); and Grillo v. FDIC, 831 F.Supp. 4 (D.Mass. 1993).  Also, he has spoken at seminars on “Commercial Lender Liability” (Mass Bankers Association, 1991) and “Unfair Debt Collection Practices” (FDIC Field Office, 1990). 

Mr. Fernandez' office is located at 43 Court Street in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts, and he can be contacted at telephone number (508) 747-4682; fax number (508) 747-7799; and e-mail address benlfernandez@earthlink.net.  Directions: Plymouth is located on the South Shore of Massachusetts.  Take Route 3 to Exit 6A: Route 44 East (Samoset Street).  Go to the first set of traffic lights and take a right on to Route 3A South (Court Street).