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Hello and welcome to this confidential web-site managed by Shields Law Group, LLC. We are a small group of attorneys with current licensing in the States of Kansas, Missouri and Texas. We handle litigation nationally, with an emphasis on tort law. We do not represent any insurance companies or large corporations. Nearly 100% of our clients are either individuals or small family-owned businesses. We are five-star reviewed on Google by over 100 former clients. We have experience in mass litigation, where we represent multiple plaintiffs in the same or similar cases. We also have many years of litigation experience in Johnson County District Court, Olathe, Kansas. As you may know, TAFS, Inc. is located in Olathe, Kansas. This Court thus has personal jurisdiction over TAFS, Inc. under Kansas law. Other courts could as well.
 
This is a confidential inquiry page maintained ONLY for the benefit of prospective clients seeking representation in a possible case(s) against TAFS, Inc. By providing your legal name, address and contact information below and proceeding in this confidential site, you affirm under oath and subject to penalty of perjury that you are in-fact who you represent to be, and that you are NOT in any way employed by or working on behalf of TAFS, Inc. or
  • any of TAFS’ sister or parent companies, including but not limited to Jacobson Holdings; TA Logistics, Inc.; TransAm Trucking, Inc.; or Olathe Noble Equipment “ONE” Leasing, Inc.; or
  • any of TAFS’ current or former legal counsel or associated law firms, including but not limited to Seigfreid Bingham, PC of Kansas City, Missouri (this too includes any current or former legal counsel or associated law firms of TAFS’ sister or parent companies)
You understand that the information you provide on this web-site is confidential in nature and will be treated by Shields Law Group, LLC as attorney work-product and subject to the attorney-client privilege. You verify that you currently are not represented by any other counsel regarding these matters. You understand that by proceeding you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions which you have read and understand. You understand that you will be viewing sensitive and confidential attorney work product in the following pages, and that you should not proceed unless you are seeking out possible representation in your current situation. These materials are only intended to be viewed by prospective clients seeking representation in their case(s) against TAFS, Inc., and should not be shared or re-published without the written authorization of Shields Law Group, LLC.
 
To proceed to the next confidential page, please provide the following and agree to terms and conditions below:
Mailing Address:*
Physical Address (if different):
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DISCLAIMER: This material is confidential in nature and only intended for prospective clients of Shields Law Group, LLC. You are not allowed to copy, publish or paste any of this content anywhere, including Social Media platforms, without the express written authorization of Shields Law Group, LLC. This is for both your and our protection. As such, DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THIS CONTENT ANYWHERE, or you risk destroying the Confidentiality Protections you have! You will receive a confidential email with your answers at the conclusion of the questionnaire below.
 

What’s ahead? A simple, stream-lined 3-part process to get your case against TAFS on-boarded now with Shields Law Group. Expect around 30 minutes, give or take, to perform these 3 tasks. After you complete these 3 tasks, we will review everything you submit and follow up with you promptly if we have any questions or need anything further from you. When complete, you will receive an email confirming your submission. Let’s get going!
 
Part I. Complete the electronic Questionnaire below regarding YOUR CASE. It takes 15 minutes. Then Submit your Questionnaire for our review.
 
Part II. Review and electronically sign your Contingent Fee Contract. It takes 5 minutes. Then Submit your signed Contract for review.
 
Part III. Last, upload your documents and emails you have in support of your case. It takes 15 minutes or so.
 
That will then conclude the on-boarding process of Your Case. We will then review it all and let you know if we need anything further.
 
Let’s begin the on-boarding process now.

Part I. Complete the electronic Questionnaire below regarding YOUR CASE. It takes 15 minutes. Then Submit your Questionnaire for our review.

If you are viewing this page, odds are you feel you have been harmed by one or more actions TAFS, Inc. directed toward you and/or your trucking business. Have you experienced:
  1. 1. extensive delay and gamesmanship by TAFS providing you with a release, after you gave your notice not to renew, which resulted in economic harm to your business.
  2. 2. TAFS outright refusal to give you a release, resulting in you being rolled into another contract term with them, against your wishes.
  3. 3. TAFS charging so-called handling fees or other types of service fees, that you or another factoring company should pay to get you out of your TAFS factoring contract. These termination fees usually ranged anywhere from $1,000 to $40,000.
  4. 4. TAFS refusing to communicate with you regarding your obligations, payments, etc after you gave them notice you wished to terminate your contract.
  5. 5. TAFS not timely paying you on invoices you have factored with them, and/or TAFS outright holding your money.
  6. 6. TAFS filing UCC liens on your assets, and harm this may have caused you afterward.
  7. 7. TAFS making misrepresentations during the solicitation of you and your business about what they could or would do to help your business grow.

We are pursuing these types of cases against TAFS on behalf of owner-operators. Proceed now to begin the process of holding TAFS accountable. Give us details and specifics about your own case in the boxes provided within the Questionnaire.
Mailing Address:*
Physical Address (if different):

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Currently using TAFS factoring service now:
Did you experience one or more of the following (check all that apply):
When you gave your notice to TAFS not to renew your factoring contract, which applies (select one):
If you submitted written notice not to renew within 60 days of your Contract End Date, what happened (select one):
If you submitted written notice not to renew prior to your Contract End Date, AND experienced significant delay by TAFS before they eventually issued you a release, which applies to you (select one):
As a result of TAFS actions directed toward you, check all that apply:
describe here
If you gave notice to terminate your TAFS contract, but could not get out because TAFS refused and you ended up in another renewal period with them, do you feel this caused you economic harm to your business, by either (check all that apply):
describe here
Can you provide written documentation in some format that details how many loads you missed out on carrying for lack of a release from TAFS:
Economic harm to a business can come in many forms. NOT considering the mental anguish this may have caused you OR the harm to the good will of your business, what is your best estimate as to how much revenue you missed out on as a result of TAFS delay in providing you with a release (select one):
As a result of TAFS conduct directed toward you, which of the following apply (check all that apply):
describe here
If TAFS collected one or more service fees or handling fees from you or another factoring company as a pre-condition to issuing you a release, who paid the fee(s) (select one):

And to wrap this up, the following are asked to help identify possible employment practices and labor and employment claims which may apply to your particular situation:

Are you:
Certain racial groups are protected in employment practices. For this purpose, please identify which ethnicity you are? If you are of mixed race, please check all that apply.
describe here
Certain age groups are protected in employment practices. For this purpose, please identify your age at the time of the events which occurred with TAFS and discussed above (select one)?
Certain disabled persons are protected in employment practices. At the time of the events which occurred with TAFS and discussed above, were you disabled?
Was TAFS aware of your disability?
Did you have this disability when you initially contracted with TAFS?
Are you presently represented by another law firm or attorney regarding your case against TAFS?
Would you like Shields Law Group, LLC to consider your case for possible representation:
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Part II. Review and electronically sign your Contingent Fee Contract. It takes 5 minutes. Then Submit your signed Contract for review.

(Attorney-Client Privilege Protected) - PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH ANYONE
 
Thank you for submitting your Questionnaire regarding TAFS. We have done legal research into these matters, as well as reviewed Questionnaires like yours prior. We may have already spoken with you by phone or email as well. Assuming you have a viable, legal claim in tort against TAFS, if successful, your tort claim could have significant value to it. For this reason, we wish to offer you a contingent fee contract for your review and electronic signature. THIS WILL ONLY TAKE 5 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME.
 
Things to know:
  1. 1. We are going to sue TAFS in tort for you. Some of you are still under contract, although you likely tried to get out. We will argue for various reasons that the contract is null and void, assuming it legally exists. We can make no guarantees of outcome. For those currently under contract, the first key is to legally get out from under the contract. A court has the power to find unconscionable contract terms unenforceable, and we intend to make these arguments on your behalf.
  2. 2. The attorney fee contract is a contingent fee contract. This simply means, if we recover you NO money, you owe us NO fee. We do NOT require money for a retainer. We also advance the expenses and costs of the litigation. We put this in black and white for you in the contract, simple and straightforward.
  3. 3. The contract is a "staggered fee". It starts at 40% and goes to 45%, depending on when your case is resolved. Please appreciate, the longer we work and the later your case we're to settle, it's a direct result of the additional work we're doing on your behalf. Lawsuits, looming trial dates and actual jury trials is what gets a corporate defendant to settle a case. These are pressure points, and the contract with us reflects as much.
  4. 4. After you become a client of ours, we will notify TAFS’ attorneys we represent you. TAFS attorneys will not contact you, without our approval and us being involved. If any attorney for TAFS were to attempt to speak with you without our approval, that would raise a serious ethical dilemma for whoever attempts to do as much.
  5. 5. We are always open to negotiations with TAFS. If TAFS ever makes an overture to negotiate, or extends an offer of settlement, you will be made aware of the offer of settlement promptly by us as your attorneys.

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Spencer C. Shields, Litigation Counsel & Managing Attorney

Carl L. Christensen, Litigation Counsel & Lead Trial Attorney

Christina J. Nielsen, Research & Briefing Counsel / Document Mgmt

Shields Law Group, LLC
Handling Claims Across Kansas - Missouri - Texas
KS Phone: (913) 393-2080
MO Phone: (816) 421-0800
TX Phone: (832) 929-3558
Fax: 1-877-247-9844
sshields@ShieldOfJustice.net
www.ShieldOfJustice.net

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Part III. Last, upload your documents and emails you have in support of your case. It takes 15 minutes or so.

Attorney-Client Privilege Protected) - PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH ANYONE
 
Thank you for submitting your electronic Questionnaire and Contract to Shields Law Group with regard to your TAFS case.
 
It's time to gather your supporting documents and to get those to us. When I say "supporting", I'm talking about the stuff in writing, preferably from TAFS and you, which supports the allegations you alleged in your Questionnaire that you filed with us. If you have emails, faxes or letters between you and TAFS, we need them. If you have documents where it shows they are withholding monies from you, or trying to extort you for "handling fees", "buyout fees", etc, we need them. Don't be shy. Error on the side of giving us more, not less. We need your documents to back up your future testimony. Your documents will provide a foundation for not only the allegations of fraud and extortion which will be made in your case, but everyone else's case as well. Together, we move and litigate as a group. The strength of your case lies with the other owners-operators standing behind you saying "it happened to me too!". And "Here are my documents to prove it!"  This is how we will show TAFS is working with motive and intent to deceive, manipulate and extort the business relationship with you and all the others. This is not a "one off" you're being subjected to by TAFS.
 
Here is a list of documents we're looking for now:
  1. 1. emails, faxes or letters from TAFS or which you sent to TAFS / particularly if they involve made up fees, withholding of money, OR your Notice(s) to terminate and/or not renew the relationship and/or TAFS response that your Notice is no good
  2. 2. emails, faxes or letters which you may have submitted to the Better Business Bureau, or other government agencies, complaining about TAFS' conduct
  3. 3. TAFS' notices to you that your attempted notice to terminate is no good in their eyes, or not done at the right moment or process under their contract
  4. 4. emails or recordings where TAFS enduced you into the contract offering fuel discount cards, loans, etc which later proved to be false
  5. 5. any opening emails or letters you had with TAFS during their solicitation of you to join TAFS factoring
  6. 6. your contract you operate or operated under with TAFS factoring
  7. 7. any other emails or faxes that document TAFS' abusive practices or things they did to you to harm you or your hauling business
  8. 8. any emails or letters you were copied on between TAFS and other factoring companies that were trying to buy TAFS out for you
  9. 9. any Release you may have obtained from TAFS by your own initiatives
  10. 10. anything else you deem relevant, including documents showing lost contracts, lost loads, negative business impact, losses your business sustained, etc

IMPORTANT!: ORGANIZE YOUR DOCUMENTS BY SUBJECT MATTER. EXAMPLE, IF DOCUMENTING THAT YOU ASKED NOT TO RENEW YOUR CONTRACT, AND TAFS DENIED YOUR REQUEST, THEN SAVE ALL THOSE EMAILS, LETTERS, ETC REGARDING THIS ISSUE INTO ONE FOLDER. TITLE THE FOLDER SOMETHING LIKE: “SHOWING THAT I ASKED FOR A RELEASE AND TAFS DENIED IT”. UPLOADING A BUNCH OF PDF’S RANDOMLY IS ONLY WASTING OUR TIME AND HURTING YOUR CASE. YOU KNOW YOUR DOCUMENTS AND EMAILS BEST. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO HELP KEEP IT ALL ORGANIZED FOR OUR EFFICIENT REVIEW. THANK YOU

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