The Connecticut Supreme Court just released an opinion in a case called Persels that goes a great ways towards filling the lacunae in definition of the practice of law jurisprudence. And, to boot, they pinned back the ears of the state Banking Commissioner in his efforts to regulate lawyers. Fun stuff. Here’s the background.
For years, a group of businesses had been advertising on television and the Internet offering debt negotiation, foreclosure defense, credit repair and other services aimed at consumers who had fallen into debt or become delinquent on mortgages or credit cards. While some apparently did actually provide useful services, many of the schemes, according to many consumer advocates, preyed on the credulous and the desperate, charged high upfront fees and providing services that were at best ephemeral and at worst useless.
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