Class Action Lawsuit Against BarBri
***UPDATE*** A settlement has been reached - Click here for the Claim Form.
Every year thousands of law students graduate from law school and start studying for the dreaded bar examination. Almost every student takes a course called BarBri which is a "prep" class - similar to what Kaplan or Princeton Review does for the LSAT or SAT or MCAT etc...
BarBri has been charging about $2,000 per person (and up) to take the bar review course (which lasts about 2 months) - and now word is out that BarBri and Kaplan entered into an agreement which gave BarBri a monopoly over the bar review courses.
Well, BarBri picked the wrong group to screw around with. You can't go messing around with soon-to-be-lawyers and not expect to get sued. I mean seriously - BarBri is teaching the law that they are now being indicted under!
A Class Action Lawsuit is now certified in the Federal Court of California - and a group of 300,000 students and lawyers are part of the class seeking a refund (or at least partial refund) of all the money they spent on BarBri.
Someone tell me - how do I join this class????
UPDATE: This website has all of the information on the BarBri Lawsuit.
(I don't know if Julie F. reads this blog - but THANKS for the email!)
Every year thousands of law students graduate from law school and start studying for the dreaded bar examination. Almost every student takes a course called BarBri which is a "prep" class - similar to what Kaplan or Princeton Review does for the LSAT or SAT or MCAT etc...
BarBri has been charging about $2,000 per person (and up) to take the bar review course (which lasts about 2 months) - and now word is out that BarBri and Kaplan entered into an agreement which gave BarBri a monopoly over the bar review courses.
Well, BarBri picked the wrong group to screw around with. You can't go messing around with soon-to-be-lawyers and not expect to get sued. I mean seriously - BarBri is teaching the law that they are now being indicted under!
A Class Action Lawsuit is now certified in the Federal Court of California - and a group of 300,000 students and lawyers are part of the class seeking a refund (or at least partial refund) of all the money they spent on BarBri.
Someone tell me - how do I join this class????
UPDATE: This website has all of the information on the BarBri Lawsuit.
(I don't know if Julie F. reads this blog - but THANKS for the email!)
Labels: BarBri, Class Action, Lawsuit
posted by Shawn at 7:37 AM
3 Comments:
i read about this in the national jurist a few months ago. i hope the students win!
Explain this to me:
How is charging $2,500 for a review course violative of antitrust, but charging fucking $45,000 a year (+ room & board, overpriced books, overpriced food), for 3 years (as most law schools do), not? Complete horseshit.
Because when choosing a law school you can decide to go either to the 45k school or the smaller less expensive school. There is competition. When it comes to BarBri, you have no choice when it comes to bar prep classes. They are the only ones out there that are worth anything. There are other smaller classes but they can't compete. And that's the point.
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