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Fried & Bonder defeated a text spammer’s first attempt at dismissing a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action. Even if you consent to receiving texts the sender MUST give you a method to opt-out.

By David S. Fried Kroger is the largest supermarket operator in the US. After Kroger determined its consumers wanted the ability to choose more organic and humane foods, they introduced their “Simple Truth” premium-priced store brand of chicken. Kroger touts its “Simple Truth” chickens as “cage free” and raised in “a humane environment.” But Kroger […]

Last week, Target announced that criminals may have stolen credit and debit card data (i.e., names, payment card numbers, expiration dates and security codes) from up to 40 million customers who shopped at its stores between November 27 and December 15, 2013. If you shopped at a Target store during that time period (we did), […]

By Joseph A. White It is common practice for litigators to respond to discovery requests by reciting a litany of objections, followed by a conditional response: “Subject to and without waiver of the foregoing objections, defendant will produce non-privileged, responsive documents….” This practice serves a legitimate purpose: allowing responding parties to substantively respond to discovery […]

This month, the Supreme Court of Georgia held that a party cannot rely solely on a lawyer’s contingency fee agreement to prove the amount of his attorneys’ fees under Georgia’s “offer of judgment” statute, O.C.G.A. § 9-11-68. Georgia Department of Corrections v. Couch, 2014 WL 2700961 (Ga. June 16, 2014). Code Section 9-11-68 is a […]

By David S. Fried Texting & Driving…it can wait has launched a campaign to help people resist the urge to text while driving. A new survey by AT&T and Dr. David Greenfield, a professor and founder of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, found that drivers almost universally agree that texting while driving is […]

By Scott L. Bonder Most depositions are straightforward affairs with a lot of “objections to form” from the lawyer defending the deposition. Many, however, involve some number of objections used to remind witnesses to refrain from guessing, make sure they understand the question, and a host of other relatively benign, though technically improper, means of […]

On August 15, 2013, Fried & Bonder hosted a webinar for its clients titled “Conquering Contracts – A Plain English Explanation of Common Contract ‘Gotchas.’” For those who missed it, below is a summary of the content. We get it. Contracts are boring. But they’re also extremely important. Contracts pervade nearly every aspect of modern […]