New Attorney Q&A Section on LawCrossing
I wanted to share a new column on LawCrossing.com that will answer attorneys' career-related questions on a weekly basis. It is featured every week on the Attorney Section of LawCrossing, and here's a link to this past week's question/answer. http://www.lawcrossing.com/article/index.php?id=2502
If you have any questions you would like me to answer in an upcoming column, please feel free to email me.
If you have any questions you would like me to answer in an upcoming column, please feel free to email me.
posted by Dan Binstock, Esq. at 12:54 PM
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I use to think that LawCrossing was great, and even found a couple of part time jobs through them while in law school... Then I found a full-time job after law school and tried to cancel, here is the story:
I moved from the state where I went to law school to the state where I had my new job (P.S. I did not find that Job through LawCrossing). Before I moved in April of 2007 I called and canceled my LawCrossing account and the man on the phone said I had been cancelled. I never received any confirmation, and in retrospect that should have made me wonder, but I guess live and learn. Anyway, shortly after I moved I changed banks to a local bank and went on with my life unaware that LawCrossing had not cancelled my account and was in fact still racking up charges for me. In November of 2007 I received via forwarded mail an invoice for almost $150.00 from Law Crossing!!! I immediately called LawCrossing and asked why my account had not been cancelled. They had no answer. They actually essentially accused me of lying about trying to cancel the account in April and told me I could either pay or be turned over to a collection agency. I asked them why they thought I should pay for services I had already told them I didn’t want, and they essentially told me good luck proving it. Then the generous phone representative, who claimed his name was John Simpson and claimed to have no supervisor at all, said he could ‘make me a discount.’ What sort of discount you might ask??? 10% off of $150.00 in charges for services I told them in April that I didn’t want!!!
Long story short I ended up paying them $90.00, again, for services I told them in April I did not want, to be done with the situation and to keep than from following through on their threat to turn me over to a collection agency and ruin my credit.
The bottom line, DON’T GO DOWN THIS PATH. I got jobs off of LawCrossing, but none that were worth the drama and headache that resulted when I tried to cancel my subscription with them. They left me feeling extorted, harassed, and abused.
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