NAD Participation Poses Minimal Class-Action Risk – Attorney Analysis
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
An investigation led by attorney John Villafranco, a partner with Kelley Drye & Warren, suggests that the risk of incurring a consumer class-action lawsuit as a result of participating in NAD’s self-regulatory process is “much lower than many have assumed it to be.”
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