: My five-part “The LawFirm” series frames issues and proposes solutions to the global legal service market’s juggernaut triplets – Artificial Intelligence, Pricing, and Talent Transience. For some unfathomable reason, many lawfirms have tended not to run as businesses, choosing instead to emphasize top line revenue rather than bottom line profitability. This is one of the reasons why many lawfirms have historically considered themselves to be successful. Ironically, it is also whylawfirm mergers and acquisitions have increased with the speed of summer lightning of late as have insolvencies and failures. The Juggernaut Triplets The juggernaut triplets . . . [more] The post The LawFirm Series appearedfirst on Slaw
: Company to pay $22 million for offering "free" credit scores that turned out to be not so free wfg-adm109 November 19, 2014 | 11:12AM Company to pay $22 million for offering "free" credit scores that turned out to be not so free By Lesley Fair We’ve brought law enforcement actions – dozens of ‘em. We’ve held workshops, issued reports, and sent warning letters. If it takes sky writing, tap dancing, and a float in a Thanksgiving Day parade, we’ll do that, too. But here’s what’s not going to happen. The FTC is not giving up until businesses get the message that: 1) Free means free; and 2) Key terms and conditions have to be clearly and conspicuously disclosed. A $22 million settlement announced by the FTC and the AGs of Illinois and Ohio with a national credit monitoring service advertising so-called “free” credit scores emphasizes that point. Another note for practitioners: It's the FTC's third case alleging violations of ROSCA . One Technologies and related outfits marketed their credit monitoring programs, M[...]