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A firm may offer to act as an agent to renegotiate the terms of a loan with the lender, in return for a fee. [4] The firms are unlikely to have any better negotiation power so the value of the fee may be disproportionate to the service received, the firm may be unable to negotiate any better terms or in the worst cases may not contact the ...
A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]
Random House (1987), in which J.D. Salinger had objected to the publication of his unpublished letters. The court noted that the Supreme Court ruling on Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises (1985) had observed "the scope of fair use is narrower with respect to unpublished works," but denied that the unpublished nature of Salinger's letters was ...
Officials are warning Sedgwick County residents about unsolicited scam mail that looks like it came from the county recorder of deeds office. The letters, received by several residents in January ...
A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Major Law Firm Helps "Nigerian" Scam Defraud Americans Two Baker Hostetler partners helped defraud nine investors of over $1 million in a ...
The Trevor Law Group was a three-member Beverly Hills law firm notable in California and nationally for their heavy-handed tort law abuse. In 2002, it was alleged that they engaged in a form of extortion by threatening to sue thousands of businesses for violating a now defunct provision of the Business & Professions Code, then offering to "settle" for a few thousand dollars apiece. [1]
Joshua Browder, CEO of algo law firm DoNotPay, offered $1 million to any lawyer willing to argue before the Supreme Court relying only on what his firm’s proprietary software instructed via AirPods.
In law, fraud is an intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law or criminal law, or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong. [1]