The "newly formed" law office of Jim Eccleston (Eccleston Law Offices) is nothing more than a group of a few lawyers who asserted that they could help me with a problem I was having with a stockbroker.
They had put out what appeared to be legal notices and legal advice on their website financialcounsel. Typepad.com saying that they were "investigating" the stockbroker that I had been invested with.
After I contacted them, it turned out that they hadn't investigated anything at all. It is a form of advertising that allows them to get new clients. I asked them what the results of their investigation were to which they repliedthat they had found information from public notices (accessible to anyone) by the SEC. They hadn't done any independent work at all.
Then they asked me to consider working with them and sharing all the information that I had on the broker... After signing a fee agreement with them of course!
There used to be a time you could count on lawyers to be above "advertising unfairly" and not to hold themselves out and advertise deceptively, I guess times have changed.
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