Rachel Dollar, CMB, of Smith Dollar, PC, is a California attorney and recognized expert in the mortgage lending industry. She is the editor of the acclaimed public service industry website Mortgage Fraud Blog (www.mortgagefraudblog.com) which is committed to raising awareness of the growing problems associated with Mortgage Fraud.

Ms. Dollar represents lenders and secondary market investors nationwide in mortgage fraud litigation and consults with mortgage lenders on policy and procedure, lending documentation and direction of quality control practices.

Ms. Dollar is a nationally recognized speaker and frequently teaches in-house seminars on mortgage fraud issues to lending professionals, QC/QA management and general counsel. She frequently consults with licensing and local, state and national criminal agencies across the country on mortgage fraud matters. She is sought out regularly by the press to comment on mortgage fraud issues and cases and has contributed to and been quoted in news publications across the country.

Ms. Dollar is an author of Protect Yourself from Real Estate and Mortgage Fraud a full scope mortgage fraud book that will be released by Kaplan Publishing in August 2007.