The Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, the group known for aggressively cracking down on self-help legal publishers and captive insurance law firms, did the unthinkable last week — they settled a declaratory judgment action. In an unusual turn of events, the normally unyielding UPLC agreed on April 15 to stop investigation into the propriety of four independent companies that identify class-action members and help them, for a fee, to file claims to collect from a nationwide settlement.
“We sat down and had a good constructive meeting with the leadership of the UPLC,” says Peter Kennedy, the lawyer for the four claims companies and a partner in Austin’s George & Donaldson. Kennedy filed a declaratory judgment action against the UPLC in Austin state court in December to stop the investigation. “And this is the result of it,” Kennedy says of the settlement talks.
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