01-09-2008
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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| BarBri Class Action lawsuit email
Did anyone else get this email? Is it legit? Quote:
I am involved in a Class Action lawsuit alleging antitrust violations by Bar/Bri that make the courses much more expensive, and often substantively worse (outdated materials, slow practice essay turnaround, etc.), because of numerous outright illegal actions taken by barbri to become a dominant monopoly.
If you followed the news in the last year, you probably heard about the huge Bar/Bri Class Action, Rodriguez v. West, with potential damages of at least $300 million, but which was settled on the cheap by a big law firm of dubious scruples, for $49 million.
Of course, $49 million isn’t chump change, and the same facts that were never litigated in that case WILL BE litigated now. The new Class will be comprised of everyone who paid for a Bar/Bri course in 2007 or thereafter. Would that include you?
If so, I wanted to ask you, first and foremost: how did you feel about the course? Lots of people have lots of complaints, e.g. “I didn’t even get my practice essays back until after the exam!”, etc. In my experience, most of us wound up at least a little disgruntled about the experience in general, especially if you paid for it yourself. Some of us are outraged!
Also, if it so happens that you failed the bar, you might be interested to know that passage rates are down dramatically all around the country since BarBri’s illegal anti-competitive behavior started, based on the failure of Bar/Bri to improve (or even just update!) their product like they would HAVE to do if they still had any legitimate competition in the market.
I don’t know if you took antitrust in law school, but if you did, then I don’t need to tell you about the fair competition principles involved here… or about the automatic trebling of damages in most antitrust actions.
So if you have any negative feelings or opinions about Bar/Bri, about the price you paid or just the fact that you felt like you had no choice but to take that particular course, please give me a call so I can pick your brain about the experience. Call my cell-phone any time, (310) 433-6049.
Perrin F. Disner
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