Becoming higher profile has benefited trustees, as people are more aware of the profession, your professionalism, and the complexities of changing the laws repeatedly year-after-year. With this higher profile, however, comes some rocks and arrows...

Just as foreclosures move from a series of deadlines to deadlines, so also the legislative process has a distinctive rhythm. In general, the legislative session progresses from slow, largely ceremonial meetings early in the year, to absolutely manic hearings in the spring, to a big finish in late summer.