Sueeasy
SueEasy.com is a free website & Internet startup established in 2007 to help consumers fight corporate wrongdoing and join together to form Class Action Lawsuits, transparently. SueEasy is also a client directory for lawyers, allowing them to view and contact litigants with legitimate grievances and to advertise to them in a targeted manner. SueEasy has satellite offices in Mountain View, California and New York, New York. The company was established in 2007 and serves all 50 United States and Canada. It currently boasts the Internet's largest, user-generated Class Action database. SueEasy pioneered the Online Class Action Generation Industry The company is also recognized as a centralized and transparent Class Representative collection point for a large majority of on-going Class Action lawsuits.
How SueEasy works
Litigants (people with legal complaints) can come to SueEasy and search for existing Class Action Lawsuits filed like users just like themselves. If there is an existing case, then they can go ahead and join that Class Action. If not, they can simpy use the "Class Action Filer" button to submit a new class action. Besides class actions, SueEasy allows users to submit legal complaints to lawyers in more than 6o categories, to the best lawyers. Interested lawyers then contact users who have legitimate cases. SueEasy addresses all areas of law, including family law, criminal law, real estate, bankruptcy, personal injury, immigration, and intellectual property. All cases on SueEasy are submitted by users who accept SueEasy's express Term & Conditions which permits relevant and verified lawyers to contact them.
These are complaints against companies and products that have some defects, wronged the consumer or caused some fom of discontent. Consumers suffering similar complaints against the same company or product can then search through the database and join the Class Action lawsuit. SueEasy claims to have a large pool of verified, award winning law firms and lawyers that specialize in mass torts and class action litigation. Lawyers login to SueEasy on a daily basis through SueEasy's secure lawyers area to view their "Virtual Docket". The lawyers then sort and go through legitimate complaints and contact the people involved in the potential Class Action to pursue the case through legal proceedings. The objective is to give consumers their due compensation and settlement for any damages or sufferings caused due to the faulty product or service. Settlements vary from Hundreds, Thousand, Millions to Billions of dollars, distributed amongst its litigants (people who filed the Class Action). SueEasy has pioneered the concept of Web 2.0 (user-powered) activism merged with litigation.
Valuable resource for lawyers
SueEasy also provides targeted advertising for lawyers and a "Client Directory for Lawyers", as described by the Wall Street Journal.
CopyCat services
As affirmed by CNET News "Like any interesting Web app, SueEasy is attracting competitors", a number of copycat services have cropped up, in the hopes of mimicking SueEasy's success and business model.
Controversies and criticism
SueEasy has met criticism from advocates of Tort reform who deem it an unnecessary addition to the over-burdened litigation industry in the United States. Several law blogs voiced their discontentment soon after its launch. However, positive writeups from the American Bar Association (ABA) itself hailing it as a step towards the progression of the legal industry and its meeting of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission decrees calling for fair and balanced competition between lawyers, has scored points for SueEasy as a valuable tool. Law Industry publications such as the Lawyers USA Weekly have also hailed SueEasy as a step in the right direction for innovation and advancement in the litigation world.
References
- SueEasy company profile on CrunchBase - a directory of Web 2.0 startups Last Edited 5/23/08