Just when you think Wal-Mart can’t treat their workers any worse, they manage to find a way.  Yesterday, Wal-Mart announced that it was eliminating the health insurance option for workers who worked less than 30 hours per week.  About 30,000 workers are afffected. That’s roughly 2 NBA arenas worth.  Wal-Mart says it is taking this […]

I’ve been a lawyer for 27 years, more than half my live.  I’ve handled over 100,000 intakes in that time. Recently I was approached regarding a a type of transaction that I had never seen before. It involved pension factoring and a company called Voyager Financial Group, LLC.  Voyager approaches people who need money and […]

What’s worse than a payday loan? Not much, but one thing that is worse is a fake payday loan. The FTC has taken action against a group of firms they say bilked consumers out of tens of millions of dollars by putting through electronic funds transfer requests for payments on loans that never existed. The […]

For many years, I was a staff attorney with UAW Legal Services Plans (UAWLSP) in Indianapolis. The legal services benefit was a casualty of the bargaining process in the last contract between the automakers and the UAW. UAWLSP stopped taking new cases at the end of 2013 and has been closing cases and phasing out […]

Today I filed  an official Access to Public Records Act complaint against the Wayne Township Small Claims Court in Indianapolis. I don’t do this lightly. Twenty years ago, I filed a complaint against a judge who was letting collection lawyer run the court, and although the judge was reprimanded, I was effectively blacklisted from all […]

Last week’s New York Times Sunday magazine had a feature story detailing the criminal underworld network behind the bottom feeder debt collection industry.  The article, by Jake Halpern,  titled Paperboys: Inside the Dark Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection explains how the industry uses lies and pressure to make huge profits by paying 1% of […]

Sometimes it takes somebody from somewhere else to really see how much you are messing up.  John Oliver takes the time to expose the myths and lies in the payday loan industry.  Language Alert.

This post has nothing to do with law but does have to do with customer service.  I want to give a shout out and hearty thanks to William K.,  proprietor of Wusik.com for going above and beyond the call of duty in helping me with a software installation issue.  If you are looking for music […]

Gary Welch’s Advance Indiana blog has a great post explaining hidden fees in Indianapolis’s bike sharing program. If you don’t dock the bike every half hour, you can be charged astonishing fees. Read about it at this link.