Rottenstein Law Group Cautions Victims About Marketing Web Sites Offering Free Case Evaluations
The Rottenstein Law Group is warning victims of defective consumer products about Web sites that are not what they appear to be. The firm cautions users who search online for legal consultation that many Web sites designed to suggest affiliation with a law firm are simply commercial sites soliciting personal information that can be sold and permission to send the user marketing emails directly.
New York, NY, October 13, 2010 --(PR.com)-- According to Rottenstein Law Group principal Rochelle Rottenstein, when a consumer product such as a medication (the acne drug Accutane, for example, or the oral contraceptive Yaz) or a medical device (such as DePuy Orthopaedics’s recently recalled replacement hip system) is discovered to be defective and/or dangerous, hundreds of new Web sites come into being very quickly, targeted at those who might have been injured by the product. These Web sites give the impression that they are sponsored by or affiliated with a law firm and that any information supplied by the user will be passed on to a lawyer for immediate review. In fact, these sites are created, maintained, and used by marketing firms that are not affiliated with any law firm.
“A given site of this kind will gather one’s name, phone numbers, street and email addresses, and information about the person’s circumstances, all so that the user can purportedly get a ‘complimentary case review’ or the like. The site is not maintained by any law firm, though. Rather, it is run by a marketing company, as revealed in the fine print. By submitting personal information, including contact information, the user agrees to receive ‘future advertisements’ from the marketing company and its affiliates—that is, emails that the user would likely consider spam. And a further ‘agreement’ that your information will be reviewed by ‘more than one attorney and/or law firm’ means that the marketing company behind the Web site or a similar company will be selling your information to as many different law firms as it can. You might be contacted by one firm, or more than one, or none.”
Rottenstein recommends that anyone searching online for a products liability lawyer read the fine print on a Web site, including any Terms of Use, Disclaimer, and/or Privacy Policy, before submitting any information. A user should look for the name of a specific lawyer or law firm. Otherwise, the user risks not just agreeing to receive spam and having his or her time wasted while waiting for a case evaluation that might never take place, but also revealing information without the protection of any duty of confidentiality. Rottenstein recommends that those exploring their legal options with regard to a consumer product injury visit only Web sites operated by actual law firms, such as the Rottenstein Law Group Web site at www.rotlaw.com.
About The Rottenstein Law Group
The Rottenstein Law Group is a New York-based law firm that represents clients in specific mass tort actions. The firm was recently founded by Ms. Rottenstein, who has more than two decades of experience as a lawyer, to represent clients in consumer product injury, mass tort, and class action lawsuits in a more compassionate manner than is typical. http://www.rotlaw.com
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“A given site of this kind will gather one’s name, phone numbers, street and email addresses, and information about the person’s circumstances, all so that the user can purportedly get a ‘complimentary case review’ or the like. The site is not maintained by any law firm, though. Rather, it is run by a marketing company, as revealed in the fine print. By submitting personal information, including contact information, the user agrees to receive ‘future advertisements’ from the marketing company and its affiliates—that is, emails that the user would likely consider spam. And a further ‘agreement’ that your information will be reviewed by ‘more than one attorney and/or law firm’ means that the marketing company behind the Web site or a similar company will be selling your information to as many different law firms as it can. You might be contacted by one firm, or more than one, or none.”
Rottenstein recommends that anyone searching online for a products liability lawyer read the fine print on a Web site, including any Terms of Use, Disclaimer, and/or Privacy Policy, before submitting any information. A user should look for the name of a specific lawyer or law firm. Otherwise, the user risks not just agreeing to receive spam and having his or her time wasted while waiting for a case evaluation that might never take place, but also revealing information without the protection of any duty of confidentiality. Rottenstein recommends that those exploring their legal options with regard to a consumer product injury visit only Web sites operated by actual law firms, such as the Rottenstein Law Group Web site at www.rotlaw.com.
About The Rottenstein Law Group
The Rottenstein Law Group is a New York-based law firm that represents clients in specific mass tort actions. The firm was recently founded by Ms. Rottenstein, who has more than two decades of experience as a lawyer, to represent clients in consumer product injury, mass tort, and class action lawsuits in a more compassionate manner than is typical. http://www.rotlaw.com
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