Yes, arbitration is a confidential, private process.

Once you sign up, you’ll be asked to sign our attorney-client agreement. That allows us to investigate your private arbitration claim. Then, log in to your secure client portal. All information is strictly privileged and confidential and will only be used for your claim. Answer a few more questions, upload a few documents, and we’ll take it from there. We’ll analyze your claim and your losses, negotiate with the company, and, if necessary, pursue your claim in arbitration.

Our fees will be a percentage of the settlement or recovery we obtain for you. That amount will depend on the rules in the state you live in. We only receive a fee if you win, and you will never owe us any money.

A negative option is when a company keeps sending you their product or service and charging you for it until you tell them to stop. This often happens with subscription services like magazines, book clubs, or online software. You might start with a free trial or with discounted promotional pricing but the subscription keeps going after the free trial or discounted promotional period ends until you explicitly cancel the service. This can be handy because you don't have to remember to reorder every time, but it might also surprise you with unexpected bills if you didn't realize it would your subscription was going to continue, the free trial period ended, or the price of the subscription was going to increase.

It depends. Companies that use negative options benefit from customers’ confusion around subscription billing practices and cancellation policies, so the government has issued guidance about how companies that offer negative option recurring payment plans for products or services. These laws require them to adequately inform their customers about the key terms of service.
For instance, The Federal Trade Commission has recently issued a “Negative Option Rule” that provides companies with guidance on how to adequately inform their customers. If a company fails to provide these disclosures to consumers, they may be liable under federal or state law. Under the FTC’s Negative Option Rule, Companies are required to clearly and conspicuously disclose the material terms of the offer on all promotional materials. These terms include the right of a subscriber to cancel their membership at any time, whether charges include postage and handling, and ways in which the subscriber can notify the seller if they do not wish to complete the transaction. Recently, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a Consumer Financial Protection Circular that companies engaged in negative option transactions can violate the Consumer Financial Protection Act if the company 1) misrepresents or fails to clearly and conspicuously disclose the material terms of a negative option program; 2) fails to obtain consumers’ informed consent; or 3) misleads consumers who want to cancel, erects unreasonable barriers to cancellations, or fails to honor cancellation requests that comply with its promised cancellation procedures.