October 1, 2018
Social Selling News Risk Roundup
"Attorney Larry Steinberg, chair of the Multi-Level Marketing industry practice group at Los Angeles-based law firm Buchalter, believes that these types of class actions have become more prevalent due to a variety of factors, including publicity.
According to Steinberg, 'It doesn’t take a lot of work for a plaintiff’s lawyer to find a disgruntled former distributor with an axe to grind, and then piggyback onto published case law and FTC guidelines that are critical of the direct selling industry.'"
