Consumer class actions are an essential tool to hold corporations accountable for unfair and deceptive practices. Without class actions, customers harmed by a premium overcharges, undisclosed fees or any of the other creative ways disreputable companies seek to pick your pocket, will have a license to steal. And steal they do.
As attorneys for public officials, candidates for office, political action committees, state and local parties and some of the most influential lobbying organizations in America, we understand the need for comprehensive thinking in addressing legal and political issues.
Whether you are a candidate, public official, corporation or citizen activist seeking to get involved in the political process, the rules on how to effectively and legally participate are increasingly arcane. Knowing the law, however is not enough.
Technology is moving faster than the law’s ability to keep pace with infringements on privacy and civil liberties. Friedman Law is at the center of applying creative thinking to these difficult issues.
In the complex world of litigation, trial experience is not enough. A lawyer also needs to know how a case plays on appeal. Friedman Law has extensive experience in briefing, arguing and winning appellate litigation at every level of the state and federal courts…
As one of the nation’s leading law firms holding corporations accountable for frauds committed against consumers, Friedman Law is also committed to preventing fraud against the government by assisting whistleblowers in qui tam actions.
Whatever one may think of the indiscretions of CIA Director Petraeus, there is something deliciously ironic and incredibly scary in the nation’s top spook getting entangled in the public disclosure of private e-mails. As the Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center stated to the Washington Post, “[i]f the C.I.A. director can get caught, [...]
After three years of litigation, Friedman Law Offices, in collaboration with Legal Counsel for the Elderly, forced debt collectors to pay eligible DC residents $1500 for alleged violations of federal and DC consumer protection statutes. In the class action lawsuit Defendants Midland Funding, and its captive law firm Mann Bracken also agreed not to pursue [...]
Pay Attention, Elections Matter. As the economy plods along attempting to shake off the worst financial crises the nation has faced in 100 years, there have been scapegoats aplenty. But this is most assuredly one you cannot blame on the lawyers. It is one, however, that you can blame on tort reform. For years consumer [...]