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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