Center for Legal & Responsible Commerce

Suite 213
1431 Old McHenry Road
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089

Phone: (847) 955-1276
FAX: (847) 955-1953

The Center for Legal & Responsible Commerce (CLRC) was founded in 2003 to protect consumers from those who would defraud them, corporations that market products or services in a fraudulent manner AND the class action bar that seeks to reap huge legal fees and give the class members coupons toward their next purchase with the defendant who harmed them.*   The CLRC is “pro-commerce,” not “pro-consumer” or “pro-business.” The latter groups advocate laws that upset the balance that must exist for commerce to take place at optimal levels. We seek to create a legal environment that ensures consumers will have recourse against entities that engage in unfair and deceptive practices, but also prevents entities from being subject to frivolous lawsuits.

We must also not forget the most offensive party to responsible commerce, the insurance industry. What other private industry are both individuals and businesses compelled to do business with? What industry/company would you do business with if the company worked both legislatively and judicially to avoid having to deliver the product (risk/liability) they had been paid to deliver?

CLRC is dedicated to fighting the insurance companies in their effort to bring about tort reform and class action reform that we feel is detrimental to consumer rights. While we agree that there is abuse occurring in the civil justice system, it is unconscionable to: deny everyone (other than business) access to the courts via draconian "reforms" that deny due process and violate the most basic notions of fundamental fairness, bury mandatory binding arbitration agreements in the fine print, increase the cost of litigation for those who you cannot block from the court house, and impose arbitrary caps on damages for those capable of overcoming all of the obstacles of litigation.

*Note that we realize that it is the defendants who propose the coupon settlements, but it is the plaintiffs bar that accepts these settlements.