Market to plaintiff's attorney for short sale?

[Benjamin Cowles]

Working in probate/foreclosure and foreclosure leads, has or does anyone ever market to the plaintiff's attorney maybe to initiate a possible short sale before the property gets to that point where the bank owns it and would rather sit on it than work with investors?

I'm still getting the hang of gathering foreclosure and probate leads from the local public notices and understand how these processes generally work. And for the most part I've just been trying to contact the owners or trustees of the (possible)properties but usually they have conveniently  posted the email addresses of these plaintiff attorneys which would be an easy and cheap alternative or supplement to reaching out to the owners/heirs. Or would this not be something a bank/lender's attorney would bother looking at? Or is it that the request for a short sale has to come through the property owners first?