DESERVE TO WIN EPISODE 7 IS HERE!: Law HQ Founder Tom Alvord Sits Down with the Czar to Discuss His New App that Turns Robocall Complaints into Lawsuits WITH A SWIPE

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What could be simpler?

You receive a call you don’t want, swipe left to notify a lawyer, and before you know it you have a large-dollar cash settlement in hand.

That’s the promise of a new app–called LawHQ–created by Utah attorney Tom Alvord.

Tom sat down with the Czar and the TCPAWorld team in the hotly-awaited Deserve to Win (Ep. 7.) And boy is this one worth watching.

Tom is already known as “Dr. Evil” in TCPAWorld following that time he hacked his way into finding hundreds of TCPA plaintiffs to sue a company that had somewhat lapse internet security protocols. (Eesh)

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But now Tom has developed an INCREDIBLY dangerous app promising to help consumers stop robocalls–and make a bunch of cash on the side.

The app called CallerHQ, which is available on Apple and the Google play store, instantly alerts his office when a robocall is reported by a consumer and allows his team to get to work researching the caller with the intention of shutting them down (via litigation) for good.

Here’s how the app is described in the play store:

CallerHQ allows you report spam and help us catch and sue telephone spammers. In our free app, you manage your calls, voicemails and text messaging in one location. When you report suspected spam to us from any of these sources, our law firm will track down the spammers; sue them in court; and split any awards 50/50 with you. Each illegal call can be worth $500 or more under federal law.

Unlike other spam call blocker apps that just “block” phone numbers, with CallerHQ you actually work with us to “stop” the spammers and scammers because we track them down and sue them.

Any robocall, telemarketer, unwanted caller, or a phone call with an unknown caller ID – you just mark it as spam and we take it from there. Our team will investigate each reported spam. With your help, we can take down spammers once and for all.

In addition to reporting the spammers and making money from the lawsuits, you also get free caller ID and free visual voicemail. Choose this app as your default phone and texting app and make the most of our spam investigation capabilities.

Crazy no?

Tom tells the Czar that he already has “thousands” of clients but that he is hoping to scale to tens–or even hundreds of thousands– of clients in the next few years.

They’re coming out, guns blazing.

And while you might think that the business model here is to file huge volumes of cases and settle them quickly, Tom swears that is not the case. He states that they WILL NOT settle cases unless on a classwide basis because they are aiming to stop spammers permanently.

Tom already has a few huge wins under his belt. In the first place he actually forced a few different bar associates to drop their bans on certain types of law firm names (watch the interview for more on this if you’re curious.)

Second, and more impressively, LawHQ are the lawyers behind the huge Chennette case in which LawHQ crushed a big firm (not Troutman Firm, of course) in an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and made some REALLY bad law (for Defendants) in so doing:

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Those of you who attended the Summit heard Peggy, Aaron, Michele and I ALL touch on this case–it was THAT big of a case. Really remarkable.

So yeah, these guys have some credibility and they seem to be the real deal.

You CANNOT miss this critical interview in the LUCKY Seventh edition of the renowned video podcast Deserve to Win. Click the link below to watch!:

 

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Published by Eric J. Troutman

The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 70 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

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