Sought Structured Settlement Consultants to Advertise in issue about “Cashing Out of Structured Settlements”
For the “Los Angeles Lawyer” it was a “bad case of first impression”. I’ve received 2 emails from the publication today. In each they are trying to hock structured settlement consultants to advertise in a March 2010 Los Angeles Lawyer publication about cashing in your structured settlement and then they either (1) engage in credential puffery or (2) show abject ignorance about the Certified Structured Settlement Consultant professional designation.
Here is the solicitation:
“LOS ANGELES LAWYER, the official publication of the Los Angeles County Bar Association with more than 25,000 members, offers you a special advertising opportunity. A feature story in the March 2010 issue is titled “Cashing out of Structured Settlements.”
To quote:
“Most structured settlements are designed by professional consultants who are themselves licensed. More than 550 individuals have been certified as Structured Settlement Consultants, pursuant to a National Structured Settlement Trade Association’s (NSSTA) program. This professional program trains licensed individuals to assist insurance companies, banks, and other institutions with organizing and running structured settlement programs. The licensing program, a joint effort between the NSSTA and the University of Notre Dame School of Law, has included instruction in needs-based evaluations, tax implications, special needs trusts, guardianship rules, loss reserving, Medicare set asides and claim valuations. After completing the course an individual may be licensed as a Certified Structured Settlement Consultant (CSSC).”
This is an excellent opportunity to promote your expertise in structured settlements!”
Comments
- What self respecting structured settlement consultant wants to promote a “cash now pusher’s” agenda?
- The Certified Structured Settlement Consultant professional designation IS NOT a licensing program!
- The designation is conferred by the National Structured Settlement Trade Association. At the time of posting it was in cooperation with the University of Notre Dame Executive Education program, NOT the University of Notre Dame School of Law (post pandemic in cooperation with the Macombs School at the University of Texas at Austin). There’s a huge difference!
- Once again the CSSC is a professional designation program for settlement consultants.
- Member of Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Bar Association fight hard for their clients. Their membership includes attorneys who get some of the highest recoveries in the nation.
- Surely the Los Angeles County Bar Association can do better and has the editorial resources and discipline to get it right.
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