Treinen Law Office, PC

Treinen Law Office recently provided a $77,000 cy pres award to the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty. Cy pres awards are given in class actions where, for whatever reason, the money awarded to class members cannot be delivered directly to them. In many consumer class actions, such as those against predatory lenders, class […]

Check out this blog post by Paul Bland.   https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/19/1835990/-Progressives-Need-To-Pay-Attention-To-CFPB-s-Payday-Lending-Protection-Rollback?_=2019-02-19T11:40:31.995-08:00#comment_73001678  

The New Mexico Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Vivint Solar.  In the lawsuit, the Attorney General documents wide-ranging abuse and deception by Vivint Solar with its door-to-door sales of solar systems to New Mexicans, including Vivint Solar’s use of Power Purchase Agreements.  Via these Agreements, consumers pay more and more over a 20 […]

Check out this blog post by by Arthur H. Bryant, Chairman and Leslie A. Brueckner, Senior Attorney at Public Justice. ‘Judicial Hellholes’: The Best Legal Joke of 2018

Check out this blog post by Paul Bland.   Missouri Supreme Court Unanimously Refuses to Rewrite Arbitration Clause Selecting Corrupt Arbitrator

Nobody likes unwanted calls.  If you have received texts, robocalls or collection calls to your cell phone, even though you did not give out your number or give the business that is calling permission to use your number, you may have had your legal rights violated.  In matters involving violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection […]

In a trend that began many years ago, big banks – banks like Wells Fargo, CitiMortgage, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, HSBC, Bank of New York Mellon and others – have greatly increased profits, running roughshod over consumers in the process.  Treinen Law Office represents consumers against the big banks.  We have handled many […]

Every day, New Mexico car dealers sell cars that have been in a prior accident, without disclosing that fact.  Often, the consumer is not told, even though New Mexico law requires all but the most minor accidents be fully disclosed at the time of sale.  New Mexico requires that dealers perform an extensive inspection, by […]

Corporations and other businesses often do not think about the emotional distress they visit upon individuals when they rip off or mistreat them.  Because unscrupulous businesses do not view their customers as human beings, but as faceless sources of profit, they often do not believe the extent of distress they can cause.  But in some […]

Whenever there is a new product to sell, the market for that product will remain unregulated for some time, and during that time that new market will be flooded with predators.  Con men.  People who spend their lives defrauding others.  These con men set up companies designed to avoid detection and prosecution.  Often these companies […]