NEWMAN FIRES BACK ON LEGAL OUTSOURCING

Yesterday, I blogged about the withdrawal of a legal outsourcing case by Newman McIntosh & Hennessey LLP. Within a couple of hours, I received a fascinating e-mail from one of the firm’s attorneys, Joe Hennessey. With his kind permission, I reprint it here.

“Dear Sharon,

I read with interest your post on Newman McIntosh & Hennessey withdrawing our complaint.  Let me clarify the reasons for the decision.

I have joined John J. Beins and Seth D. Goldberg who have significant expertise in litigating consumer class action lawsuits -- as well as other business litigation. John Beins, Seth Goldman, Anthony Newman, Ernie McIntosh and I will be combining our various areas of expertise to identify those who have been victimized by the use of foreign legal process outsourcers. Collectively, we decided that rather than litigate an academic declaratory judgment action, we would bring an action for damages on a class wide basis. We have, for example, already heard a person who believe their HIPAA rights were violated when Indian doctors were video-conferenced to consult and make recommendations about a surgical procedure -- a procedure that went horribly wrong. Not only did this person not consent to consultation, but all of this persons private medical records were transferred to these Indian-based doctors -- a transfer that violated her HIPAA rights.

So, stay tuned -- we are not at the end of this issue, we are at the beginning.  I'll keep you posted as we proceed.”

Indeed, I think we will all stay tuned Joe. Thanks for writing.

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