See if this situation sounds familiar. When you sit down after a long day at work and enjoy a pleasant, quiet meal with your significant other or your family, what tends to break the silence at times? The phone rings. Who tends to call during such an inopportune hour? Usually, it is an unfamiliar company […]

Bank of America (“BOA”) will be paying over $32 million to settle six pending TCPA class action lawsuits. The TCPA is the Telephone Consumer Protection Act which protects cell phone users from robo-calls, spam texts, and other harassing methods of communication with a cell phone. The TCPA class action settlement, which must still be approved by a […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has recently settled a case with two California-based debt collection companies for their use of predatory debt collection practices in violation of the Federal Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). This settlement marks the first time the FTC has challenged a debt collector’s use of text messages as a lawful method of collecting […]