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At an age when most NBA All-Stars’ time in a garage is spent weighing what Lamborghini or Ferrari to add to their fleet, Mark Eaton was an auto mechanic talking to customers about whether they wanted regular or high-performance motor oil in their Fords and Chevys. However, the 7-foot-4-inch Eaton would go from a mechanic to a 12-year career with the Utah Jazz where he was named the NBA’s Two-Time Defensive Player of the Year and selected to play in the 1989 All-Star Game. Continue reading to see how Mark is bringing his lessons for personal and professional success to the 2014 National Settlement Services Summit (NS3) in June.

CertainSafe, a secure file sharing platform, announced expansion into the title insurance industry through the signing of Clear To Close Services, a Virginia-based title and settlement sourcing provider. This unique partnership will take security to the next level for an industry that has placed great focus on compliance and privacy within the last 3 years. CertainSafe’s proprietary MicroTokenization technology encrypts files so securely as to be virtually unhackable, a perfect addition in an industry where consumer and lender information is frequently shared and at potential risk.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has signed a bill that creates an affidavit to correct errors in deeds, deeds of trust and mortgages. The bill, SB 116, was introduced by Sen. John Watkins, R-Modlothian. The new law states that obvious description errors in a recorded deed, deed of trust or mortgage purporting to convey or transfer an interest in real property may be corrected by recording an affidavit in the land records of the circuit court for the jurisdiction where the property is located or where the deed, deed of trust or mortgage needing correction was recoded.

The Illinois General Assembly is considering a bill that would amend the mechanic’s lien law by clarifying that an agreement to subordinate a lien under the Mechanic’s Lien Act is against public policy and unenforceable. Under current law, any contractor or subcontractor who does work on a tract of land has a right to place a lien on the property for the amount due to him or her for the work performed on the property. The parties may not enter into an agreement whereby the contractor or subcontractor waives their right to enforce or claim the lien. The bill would now address the subordination of mechanic’s liens.

Steve Kessedjian, 51, of Los Angeles, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lawrence O’Neill to 21 months in prison for defrauding clients of escrow funds, U. S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced.

After being unsuccessful in filing a quiet title action against the adjoining property owners over an easement dispute, the plaintiff homeowners submitted a claim for defense to their title insurer. The title insurer denied the claim, asserting the suit was excluded from coverage. The homeowners then sued the title insurer for breach of duty. The case eventually went before the Supreme Court of Nebraska.

Hundreds of distressed homeowners facing foreclosure in Hawaii were likely misled by a loan modification program operated by the Homeowner Legal Assistance Association (HLAA), a Florida corporation, for approximately 17 months in 2009 and 2010, according to an investigation conducted by the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ (DCCA) Office of Consumer Protection (OCP). The OCP believes more than 500 Hawaii homeowners may have claims against their New York-based attorneys and urges victims to file claims for reimbursement.

California homeowners sued their title insurer for violating RESPA when it received marketing fees from several delivery companies in exchange for referring overnight delivery business to the carriers via the insurer’s subsidiaries. The case went before the U.S. District Court on the title insurer’s motion to dismiss.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, joined by Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services Benjamin Lawsky, announced that a Queens County grand jury has charged two Long Island attorneys with defrauding Queens homeowners, financial institution and real estate buyers out of more than $1 million through a short sale mortgage fraud scheme that occurred over a nineteen-month period between October 2008 and May 2010. The district attorney identified the defendants as attorneys Kenneth Schwartz, 64, of Huntington, N.Y., and Helene Stetch, 50, of Lindenhurst, N.Y. Stetch worked with Schwartz at the law firm of Kenneth B. Schwartz, Esq., in Carle Place, N.Y., until her termination in mid-2010.

Currently, “breach of security” is defined as an “unauthorized acquisition of personal information maintained in computerized form by a person that compromises the security, confidentiality or integrity of the personal information. Senate File 2259 expands the definition to include the “unauthorized acquisition of personal information maintained by a person in any medium, including on paper, that was transferred by the person to that medium from computerized form and that was compromises the security, confidentiality or integrity of the personal information.”