Authorities began investigating after a claim that he oversaw a case in which he had a conflict of interest.
After proposing a wall along the southern border, he repeatedly attacked a federal judge of Mexican descent who was overseeing a case involving Mr. Trump's private company.
"Something like covenant banking could be included in nonprosecution agreements, for example," she said, or a judge overseeing a case in which a company is paying $50 million could require individuals to pay $10 million of that personally.
Jeff Bohm, a bankruptcy judge in Texas who oversaw a case between William Allen Parsley, a borrower in Willis, Tex., and legal representatives for Countrywide, said the flat-fee structure "has fostered a corrosive 'assembly line' culture of practicing law".
Overseeing a case last year involving James Patrick Allen, a homeowner in Victoria, Tex., Judge Steen examined the firm's conduct in eight other foreclosure cases and found problems in all of them.
NI hopes its offer of a compensation scheme, headed by an ex-High Court judge, will mean that Mr Justice Vos, who next Friday oversees a case management conference of the 24 suits against it, will appreciate its efforts to hasten the legal process.
But it is reminiscent of what he has done when faced with criticism over incendiary or insensitive remarks, such as one about the federal judge overseeing a case involving Trump University who has Mexican-born parents, or one about the Muslim mother of a soldier killed in Iraq.
"In contrast to Gucci, they've expanded into anything and everythingincluding some things they probably regret," says David Yoffie, a Harvard Business School professor who oversaw a case study on Gucci Group last year.
Carter is overseeing a case brought by homeless advocates trying to stop the removal of the homeless encampments.
And it helps that Donald Trump has had an objectively abysmal start to his general election, rattled and criticized over a series of racist remarks he's made about an American judge of Mexican heritage who is overseeing a case involving his for-profit university.
