A few weeks ago the Star Tribune published an article titled lawsuits targeting Company websites for ADA violations on the Rise. And there were a few things I wanted to comment on. First, there’s a stock photo with someone holding open a book and the book reads ADA Americans with Disabilities Act. And then the … Read more
Kris: Okay. Today, I would like to welcome back Richard Hunt. Richard and I, we had a previous interview and I will link to that one below, but I want to reintroduce Richard. Richard is a board certified civil trial lawyer with over 35 years experience in state and federal court. He has a national … Read more
Continuing on with my mini series on the most active plaintiff’s law firms, today I have a complaint that was filed in September 16, 2022. The signing lawyers were the law office of Pelayo Duran and Roderick Hannah. So let’s look at the claims inside this complaint. One is a homepage button company logo is … Read more
On Reddit’s small business subreddit, there is a post where someone received a complaint filed against their small business and later updated everyone about the process. This update was posted recently in December of 2022, and the original post was from two years ago. A class-action lawsuit was filed against one very small business, and … Read more
I’ve been looking through anecdotes regarding ADA website compliance on Reddit, and two that I found interesting in this small business thread, and I will quote them and link to them below, are settlements of $20,000 and $2,000. So the $2,000 is extremely low, and then there’s this $20,000, and I’m going to read from … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a document with the heading, can you get sued again? And I’m going to read through the bullet points. You can definitely get sued again and again and again. And sometimes this happens with the same law firm. Actually, a few weeks ago, I was looking through complaints … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a document with a heading cost of ADA website lawsuit. And so today we’ll break down how much it costs to settle one of these and give you realistic numbers. So for the defense attorney, as the first bullet point, I have allocated $5,000. This can range. On … Read more
Florida is the third most litigious state when it comes to ADA website litigation. And I’m on, I’m screen recording the Miami subreddit, and there’s a post and there’s a few replies to this post that I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention. The post, the original poster writes, have you dealt with an ADA … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a complaint filed by the Acacia Barros Law Firm in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Miami Division. And this is a part of a mini series where I’m going through the different plaintiffs law firms and looking at the material claims of … Read more
As an attorney involved in litigation, a big part of your job is to paint a picture. And it doesn’t matter whether you’re on the defense side or whether you’re on the plaintiff side, you want to paint a picture that gives the strongest, that gives your position the strongest look. So you want to … Read more
I’m sharing a split screen with a complaint filed in March of 2023 from Gottlieb & Associates. And the signing attorney is Dana Gottlieb, also listed are Michael LaBollita and Jeffrey Gottlieb. And now let’s go through the claims of inaccessibility in the complaint. First is lack of alternative text. Second is empty links that … Read more
I am sharing a split screen with a complaint filed by the Manning Law Firm a few years ago, signed by lawyer Joseph Manning. The accessibility issues named in this complaint are still relevant and commonly seen by active plaintiffs law firms. The Manning Law Firm is based in California, and I will list the … Read more
I am sharing a split screen with an older complaint filed by the Pacific Trial Attorneys law firm. The signing lawyer is Scott Ferrell, and I’m going to go ahead and read through the accessibility issues that are claimed in the complaint. Missing alternative text, Empty or missing form labels, Empty headings, Empty links, Empty … Read more
Sharing this split screen with me is a complaint filed by the Mizrahi Kroub Law Firm and the signing lawyer is William Downes. And so we’re going to look at the accessibility issues named in this complaint. The accessibility issues are: A. The website’s images and other non-text elements lack alternative text. B. The website … Read more
In video three of my most active plaintiffs law firm series, we’re looking at the Shaked Law Group with Dan Shaked and we’re looking at the accessibility issues that are claimed in his complaint. And this complaint was filed in February of 2023. And so on the screen with me, I’m going to read … Read more
In this video, we will be looking at a complaint filed in March of 2023 by the Stein Saks law firm, with the lawyer signing the complaint being Mark Rozenberg. Let’s go through some of the accessibility issues that are being claimed: The website lacks alternative text: many features on the website lack alternative text. … Read more
This video is the first in a mini-series I’m going to record over actual complaints filed in court. We’re going to look at the accessibility issues that are actually being claimed by the most active plaintiff’s law firms. I think this is so helpful because it will take out some of the ambiguity and make … Read more
I came across an article dated February 7th 2023. What’s interesting is that it reads like it’s from 2018. It reads like ADA website litigation is brand new. So I’m going to paraphrase a few selections from the article. A legal complaint against a brewery claiming its website is inaccessible to the blind is what … Read more
In the previous video, I interviewed Richard Hunt. Richard is an attorney who specializes in defending businesses against ADA and FHA litigation. And more specifically, he’s been defending businesses against website accessibility litigation since 2015. The interview went extremely well. Richard’s information and insight were on point and very helpful. And really, that’s the reason … Read more
I am screen recording myself along with a snippet from the 2022 Accessibility.com Accessibility Lawsuit Report. And what I want to focus in on is where it says nearly 67% of all website accessibility lawsuits were filed by five law firms out of New York and California. Why is this so significant? Because what it … Read more
California has been the most litigious state when it comes to “ADA website” litigation and small businesses have been hit especially hard. Among the most active law firms are Potter Handy, Pacific Trial Attorneys, Wilshire Law Firm, and Manning Law Firm. And there are literally dozens of other plaintiffs law firms that have engaged in … Read more
When it comes to website accessibility litigation, something that both clients and defense attorneys need to pay close attention to are the non-money terms of the settlement. So the focus is usually on the settlement amount and of course the clients and the defense attorneys are trying to get this down as much as possible. … Read more
I had noticed that investor relations pages on websites we’re being targeted by plaintiffs’ lawyers, but I’d never thought about why they were specifically going after those pages – I just thought it was something that they had come up with to do. But I was talking to another attorney and they speculated that this … Read more
In a previous video I stated that website accessibility litigation would decline in 2023. And I touched upon a California State court decision but I didn’t explain it. So this California State court decision, the effect of it is that online only businesses can no longer be successfully sued in California whether it be state … Read more