SHARKS EATING SHARKS: Plaintiff’s Law Firm to Pay Nearly $6MM in TCPA Settlement and the TCPA Truly Knows No Bounds

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Sharks are cannibals, at least in the TCPA space.

Ambulance chaser (my opinion) outfit Wilshire Law Firm just agreed to pay nearly $6MM to settle a TCPA case after apparently making over 50,000 illegal robocalls!

What a bizarre thing to admit.

And they did.

Check out this class definition:

“all persons within the United States: (1) to whose cellular telephone number (2) Wilshire (or an agent acting on behalf of Wilshire) placed a call (3) from October 10, 2020 through the date of preliminary approval (4) using a pre-recorded message (5) without prior express written consent.“

Essentially Wilshire conceded it was using robocalls without written consent to contact cell phones– that’s pretty much all of the elements of a TCPA claim.

They got a decent deal here– only $113.40 a class member. TBH that’s still a pretty bad deal BUT compared to the insane prices people have been paying in other TCPA settlements you can tell their lawyers at least tried to get them a decent exit package here. Don’t like the class definition, but the price is somewhat sane given the definition.

I would have liked to have seen a class of all MARKETING messages made using a prerecorded voice PERIOD. I’ll bet the class would have been about the same size and without consent built in the price per class member should have been in the $20-40 range. But I digress (and speculate).

This case was brought to you by the Wolf, Kauffman and Perrong working together. They are set to make $1.9MM on this mess. And it just goes to show these sharks will kill other sharks– they literally do not care who you are. If they can make a couple million bucks off of you they will come after you.

It also goes to show that personal injury lawyers really have no idea what’s going on out there. Wilshire Law firm should have been totally aware of these laws– they’re lawyers after all– but they obviously screwed up here.

They are not alone– these plaintiff’s lawyers are fed a line of BS everytime they attend a growth seminar or Mass Torts Made Perfect (MTMP.) I have been asked repeatedly to speak at these events and I REFUSE– I am not helping the sharks to shark.

BTW if you’re curious what firm would represent PLAINTIFF’S lawyers that ROBOCALL people without consent– it wasn’t Troutman Amin, LLP.  Full settlement agreement here for the curious. 

Troutman Amin, LLP NEVER defends Plaintiff’s law firms. Ever. And we’ve been asked MULTIPLE times. But integrity is a thing.

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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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  2. Psssst: the link you posted doesn’t work. So in trying to locate said unnamed case I found a few others. So clearly they’re aware of the TCPA which they violate regularly!

    Here’s a doozy:

    “Initially, the caller claimed that she was ‘Samantha’ with the illegally and
    fictitiously named ‘US Claim Advisors’ asking if the Plaintiff had Parkinson’s Disease.”
    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.403958/gov.uscourts.txnd.403958.1.0.pdf

    Then there’s this one using PRMs:
    “…Matt from Wilshire Law Firm…and we have the details of your case and we want
    to let you know that our firm is here to help you get the maximum compensation you deserve” https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69257378/paul-ryan-v-wilshire-law-firm-plc/

    Now that’s pretty tricky – this could be targeting many different types of cases – maybe they were too cheap to buy a list of Parkinsons patients in the earlier case – so they morphed the pitch to any/all with liability cases?!?!

    Then there’s this case – they didn’t even bother to answer the complaint – they just asked for more time and just settled. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70745585/derrick-young-v-wilshire-law-firm-plc/

    Oh and yeah, there’s no doubt, they ARE ambulance chasers. How do they not get disciplined by the CA Bar for continually violating federal law?

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