Recently somebody referred me to this blog.
http://deangoogasian.com/belford-law-suit/class-action-participants-file-an-objection-case-against-lawyer-dean-googasian/
Barely could anyone of us claim to know of a small insignificant law firm like Googasian, had it not been for the lawsuit it’s lately filed against the leading online high school – Belford. So its but natural that we need more to satisfy our curiosity.
Not many are aware of the class action lawsuit Googasian filed against Academy of Court Reporting in Clawson – a local school in Michigan offering court reporting certificates to its students by the end of their course, claiming that the certificates would secure their students decent jobs at the court.
Googasian filed a class action against the school and managed to gather about 1300 students and ultimately won the case, hence the settlement amount of $7.8 million for the tuition fee paid by the students participating in the class action.Sounds good enough? Well, here’s the twist. Googasian very conveniently kept $2.5 million of the above mentioned amount to itself, dividing the rest of the amount among the participants.
Yes, that obviously came up to barely one third of each of the student’s tuition fee. But of course the students felt taken for granted and played up by the clever attorneys at Googasian. Therefore, three participant students filed objections to the settlement with the court.
Sylvia John of New Haven, who graduated from the academy in 2006 said after the hearing that she is dissatisfied with the settlement. “I was expecting more,” said John, who paid over $30,000 in tuition and has not been able to get work as a court reporter.