Washington Attorney General

    By Stella M. Chavez

    | 9:30AM 9/20/2010
    Celebrity Attorney Robert Shapiro's company LegalZoom sells legal documents such as wills, living trusts and even divorce papers online. The problem, says the Washington Attorney General, is that consumers could mistakenly believe that they're also getting legal advice. Under an agreement reached...

    By Stella M. Chavez

    | 8:00AM 7/25/2010
    More than 60 Washington seniors who paid for living trusts will receive refunds under a settlement reached between the Washington Attorney General's Office and The Preservation Group. The atty. gen.'s office accused the Arizona-based company and its owners, Kevin D. Boterman and Robert J....

    By Stella M. Chavez

    | 4:30PM 7/16/2010
    Visible.net, a Washington Internet marketing company that told small businesses they'd be "blown away" by the amount of Web traffic it could deliver, has settled with the Attorney General's Office in that state after customers complained it didn't live up to promises. The AG's office sued...

    By Stella M. Chavez

    | 2:30PM 7/08/2010
    Washington state's attorney general has settled a case with DMZ Group, LLC, an independent affiliate of the dating service Great Expectations, in which it accused the company of misrepresenting itself during sales pitches, overstating the number of members to choose from and failing to disclose all...