Web start up Avvo, a new find a lawyer search engine we profiled earlier this month, has come under fire from some in the legal community who claim the site is unfair and highly deceptive. One of those lawyers, managing partner of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro Steven W. Berman, has filed a proposed nationwide class-action lawsuit on behalf of other attorneys.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, alleges Avvo “violates unfair methods of competition and deceptive acts in the conduct of commerce as stated in the Washington Consumer Protection Act.” Specifically, Berman said, he and other lawyers find the site’s rating methodology prone to error and wide open to manipulation,
Originally posted on June 15, 2007 @ 1:58 pm