AG Suthers complained Lans, says fraud
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said Friday his office has a civil action against consumer fraud an organization of Colorado, its founder and his family, she criticized offer “false promises of legal aid to low-income customers .Appointed in consumer fraud, in Denver District Court, National Legal Aid Services Inc, also known as LANS Corp., its chairman, E. Kendrick White, 50, his wife, Jasmine Ewing, 35, and White’s half-brother, Derrich E. Brown, 64
Suthers said that Ewing and Derrich Brown takes charge with the company. “In addition, in the costume of several other companies, many of whom the term “legal assistance” as part of their name.Denver District Court Judge Robert McGahey, a temporary bewegungseinschränkende, in response to Suthers’ costume, freezing bank accounts of those in action and blocking the sale of their legal services.
“With the constant increase in costs of legal services, several companies have increasingly offer alternatives profitable,” said Suthers Friday in a statement. “In the case of Lans, we believe that the accused attacked at low-income consumer business with names and false promises of legal aid.
In the meantime, San Francisco, companies established Morrison & Foerster complaint filed Thursday in Federal District Court in Denver against LANS Corp. and several other related businesses, their alleged infringement of trademark law, improper advertising, unfair competition, blackmail, accidental loss Practice of Law and violations of consumers.
The appeal was signed on behalf of Colorado Legal Services Texas and a legal aid group, two civilians, which offers free services of lawyers to low-income customers.In a statement, Morrison & Foerster, cited two alleged victims Colorado, said she paid hundreds of dollars to LANS Corp., but never obtained legal services, they are paid.
“For over 80 years, Colorado Legal Services legal needs of poor people in Colorado,” said Jon Asher, Executive Director of Legal Services Colorado, in a statement made by Morrison & Foerster. “Colorado” Legal Services has joined in this action because we believe it is important to study and protect low-income people the exploitation of receiving legal service providers. ”
Officials of the LANS Corp. could not be reached Friday.On its website, Lans Corp. describes itself as “non-profit organization … offers reduced rates for legal services.LANS-called Denver office and a lawyer provides services in more than two dozen states, often with the help of telephone numbers of book ads.
Suthers said that customers LANS told that “trained professionals”, legal certainty, but indeed, legal advice was offered often people with little or no legal training.He argued that consumers LANS “poorly formulated documents that have been systematically rejected in the courts. Other consumers do not receive the documents. “
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