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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.
 
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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.
 
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. Possibly this resulted in:

1. 1. extensive delay and gamesmanship by TAFS providing you with a release, after you gave your notice to terminate, 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
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 filing UCC liens on your assets, and harm this may have caused you afterward

BACKGROUND: Our firm currently represents a Michigan resident who previously utilized TAFS' factoring services. We filed suit on our client's behalf in Oct 2022 in Johnson County District Court in Olathe, Kansas, alleging generally that TAFS' actions in delaying to provide him a release, as well as attempting to charge him multiple so called handling and other fees which they demanded must be paid as pre-condition to giving him a release, caused economic harm and losses to his trucking business. So far we have filed just one count on his behalf for Tortious Interference with Prospective Business Advantage or Relationship. Since we have sued TAFS in tort in Kansas, if at a future point (after presentation of evidence and witness affidavits) the presiding Judge is satisfied that clear and convincing evidence exists for a jury to conclude that TAFS acted intentionally and with malice, the Court should allow us to amend his Petition to bring an additional count against TAFS for punitive damages. Punitive damages are intended to punish a defendant for malicious conduct and to prevent similar conduct in the future. Establishing a company’s malicious intent can be shown by repetitive egregious conduct directed toward not just one but many. The Court recently scheduled a trial in this matter for the week of October 16th, 2023, so we are on a tight schedule to prepare our present client's case for jury trial.
 
Recently we have received a number of calls from individuals wanting to inquiry whether TAFS' actions directed toward them may be in violation of law. These individuals have also expressed interest in having our firm represent them in filing legal claim(s) against TAFS, Inc. As a result, we have established this confidential web-site to manage prospective clients’ intakes, as well as to share some confidential information with you.
 
YOU HOLD THE KEY TO YOUR CONFIDENTIALITY, SO DON’T THROW IT AWAY: Just like rules of the road truck drivers must follow daily, we as lawyers too have legal “rules of the road” we must follow. Specifically, Courts and lawyers treat information provided by prospective clients with a lawyer they are looking to hire on their case as confidential. Thus, we don’t share this information unless you give us authorization to do such. BUT, YOU ALSO HAVE A DUTY to be confidential with the information you view and provide to us. If you copy and paste any of this data or communication on Social Media platforms, OR even discuss it with friends or family, you most likely will destroy your own confidentiality protection. The law is, if you yourself share it publicly, then you obviously don’t intend it to be confidential, so why should the law. It’s a very good point! So we cannot stress it enough, don’t share or communicate the information herein or the information you provide to us with any other persons, either publicly or in conversation. This will protect the confidential nature of your inquiry and what you tell us about your case.
 
WE HAVE A CURRENT CLIENT, FOR WHOM WE ARE CURRENTLY PREPARING HIS CASE FOR TRIAL: Please appreciate we have our current client we represent and we need to investigate and establish a pattern of conduct by TAFS to help with our current client’s case. As the old saying goes, there is strength in numbers. We are investigating his case and speaking with potential witnesses, some of whom may too turn into clients of ours. With this understood, one of our attorneys may reach out to you to obtain an affidavit in order to share those with the Court to establish a pattern of conduct by TAFS.
 
WE’RE HERE TO HELP STREAMLINE THE PROCESS FOR EVERYONE: Below is a series of questions designed to help us not only assess the strengths of your case, but also to help us determine how TAFS is treating groups of truckers with same or similar issues. By working with us to go through this brief questionnaire, it helps us group clients so that we may use the best law and best processes to help move their prospective cases toward the best outcome possible.
 
TIME LINE: We intend to leave this confidential web-site intake process open thru March 19^th only. You don’t need to submit documents to us at this point-in-time. As our parents used to say, either get on the bus or don’t. If you have friends or family that you know whom were impacted by TAFS conduct, you are free to share this link with them, so that they too can submit their inquiry in confidence.
 
We are currently conducting further research into several possible claims against TAFS, and your truthfulness completing this questionnaire will help us identify others similarly situated to you, and to then apply the best law possible to all your cases. Sometime soon after March 19^th, we will notify you in writing via the Email you provide for notices whether we believe we can help you or not. If we do believe we can help you obtain justice against TAFS, we will at that point offer you a contract of employment for your review and signature. Historically, almost 100% of our clients are represented on a contingent fee contract, meaning there is no fee for our legal services provided unless we recover you and your business money. If offered a contract and you elect to proceed with us, you will then sign and return the contract to us, at which time we will begin to gather documentation from you in further support of your case.
 
WELL, LET’S DO THIS THEN: With the above being read and understood, please answer and complete the following inquiry. At the end you will date, type your name for your electronic signature, and hit SUBMIT when you are done. You will receive an email confirmation after your submission showing the answers you provided on the form below. We will follow up with any other questions or discussion we feel we may need in order to properly evaluate your case. If any questions or concerns, you may email managing attorney Spencer Shields at sshields@shieldofjustice.net.